BIB_ID
403757
Accession number
MA 1581.260
Creator
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
Display Date
Kendal, England, 1810 February 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.4 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Place of writing from postmark.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 30.
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) 30.
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
Apologizing for her delay in replying to her letters but saying "Thank God we are all in good health, and have had no domestic sorrows to occupy our minds;" commenting on the personalities of each of the four children; saying that Miss Hutchinson will be leaving them after four years and "...Coleridge most of all will miss her, as she has transcribed almost every Paper of the Friend for the press;" reporting on Coleridge saying his "...his spirits have been irregular of late...there have been weeks and weeks when he has not composed a line. The fact is that he either does a great deal or nothing at all; and that he composes with a rapidity truly astonishing, if one did not reflect upon the large stores of thought which he has laid up, and the quantity of knowledge which he is continually gaining from books - add to this his habit of expressing his ideas in conversation in elegant language;" asking if Lady Beaumont "...liked the 'Epitaphs of Chiabrera'? The Essay of this week No. 25 is by my Brother;" pointing out the specific misprints of William's essay and adding that her brother will write two more essays on the same subject; expressing her hope that her brother will finish three books of "The Recluse" and after that "...he hopes to complete the White Doe, and proud should we all be if it could be honoured by a frontispiece from the Pencil of Sir George Beaumont;" apologizing for writing on too small a sheet of paper and saying how glad she is that Lady Beaumont is interested in her brother Christopher's work; sending her regards and those of her brother and sister to Mrs. Fermor.
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