Letter from Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere, to Lady Beaumont, 1808 April 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Relating news of the orphans, the people into whose care they have been placed and the anxiety of her family over the illness of John; transcribing a poem of fourteen four-line stanzas written by William, which he started writing in a churchyard while looking at the graves of the parents of the orphans; beginning with "Who weeps for strangers? Many wept" and ending with "That may not be untied!"; commenting on Coleridge saying "He is a wonderful creature, pouring out such treasures of thought and knowledge, almost one may say, without premeditation and in a language so eloquent;" stating that the Poem is to be published and that "Longman has consented, in spite of the odium under which my brother labours as a poet, to give him 100 guineas for 1,000 copies, according to the Demand;" asking, in a postscript, if she has the key to the manuscript box and if so would she give it to Coleridge who will send it to them.