BIB_ID
403748
Accession number
MA 1581.252
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
Coleorton, England, 1807 January.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.3 cm
Notes
A footnote to the letter, cited below, gives the date of writing as the "end January,1807."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 22.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Address panel with postmarks to "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 22.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Address panel with postmarks to "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Expressing their distress at the news of Lady Beaumont's sister and Lady Beaumont's headaches; commenting on the contents of a letter he received from Lord Redesdale and discussing the importance of a winter garden and the comfort it brings, especially in old age; discussing, in detail, various aspects of the garden, its planting and its care; mentioning that he and Mr. Craig will go to the nursery to purchase plants and that Mr. Craig told him there is not enough water for a fountain "...to produce any effect even in winter: this consideration does not sway with me much; but Capt'n Bailey told me there would be little or none sometimes in summer, and upon reflection I think this would be so melancholy, and would make such open declaration of the poverty of the land, that it is better to abandon the idea;" continuing to explain, in detail, his plans for the specific plantings in the garden.
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