Letter from Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleorton, to Lady Beaumont, 1807 February 15 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking her for her kindness in sharing the "...melancholy tale of your dear Sister's sufferings in her own affecting words...;" thanking her for the books she sent and expressing their delight in reading them; reporting that the weather has been very good and describing, in detail, a long walk that she, her brother, Coleridge and Miss Hutchinson took in the wood and what they saw along the way; reporting on the work in the winter garden saying "The men work industriously I am sure; for we never find them idle; but little seems yet to be done, the labour having been all employed in clearing away, removing rubbish and digging soil out for the border. My Brother thinks that, by all means, the terrace should be terminated by another tower. He is very happy in his employment and I assure you that you need not give yourself a moment's care about interrupting him in his poetical labours; for those will and must go on when he begins, and any interruption, such as attending to the progress of the workmen and planning the garden, is of the greatest use to him; for after a certain time the progress is by no means proportioned to the labour in composition, and if he is called from it by other thoughts, he returns to it with ten times the pleasure, and his work goes on proportionally more rapidly --;" saying how kind it was of Sir George to write to Coleridge and how much her brother might like to use one of Sir George's "beautiful sketches" in a volume of his poems; adding, in a postscript, that her sister is "...well, though not strong" and that they have not "...suffered the least inconvenience from the cold situation of this house. Thanks to the good fires we have had no cold to complain of within doors. - and we have had every other comfort about us."