BIB_ID
403756
Accession number
MA 1581.259
Creator
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1809 December 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.9 x 19.3 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 29.
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 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
Discussing John Wilson and their visit to his house; saying "...John Wilson, a young man of some fortune who has built a house in a very fine situation not far from Bowness...This same Mr. Wilson is the Author of the letter signed Mathetes: he has from his very boyhood been a passionate admirer of my Brother's writings; and before he went to Oxford he ventured to write a long letter to my Brother respecting some of his poems, and expressing his deep gratitude for the new joy and knowledge which his writings had opened out to him;" elaborating on their visit saying "...we all, including Mr. de Quincey and Coleridge, have been to pay the Bachelor a Christmas visit, and we enjoyed ourselves very much, in a pleasant mixture of merriment and thoughtful discourse;"; offerings details on Mr. Wilson's house, background and interests; discussing the most recent number of the Friend, "...which contains the continuation of my Brother's reply to Mathetes's letter. Mr. Wilson sent the letter to Coleridge, and Coleridge requested my Brother to reply to it, he being at Leisure, and disposed at that time to write something for the Friend. You will be glad to hear that he is going to finish the Poem of the White Doe, and is resolved to publish it, when he has finished it to his satisfaction;" mentioning that the workmen have finally finished in the house and she has been working to put the books in order; telling her that Coleridge has been well, very busy and has recently published "...a series of essays in the Courier, on the Spanish affairs;" acknowledging receipt of the books from Coleorton and the news of the Dowager Lady Beaumont's good health; adding, in a postscript, her regret that she didn't say "...more of the pleasure we received from the interesting history of the Hermit, but I have not room for it - Coleridge wishes it could be published in the Friend - but perhaps this cannot be allowed."
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