Letter from William Wordsworth, Keswick, to Sir George Beaumont, 1811 November : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing the placement of lime trees with respect to placing an Urn in the center; transcribing the poem "Ye Lime-trees" beginning with 'Ye Lime trees, ranged around this hallowed Urn;" adding a note in the margin explaining that he mistakenly thought Sir George was born in Dunmow; saying "For the Stone near the Cedar, thus altered" and transcribing the poem "The embowering rose" with a couplet added between lines 12 and 13; introducing his next poem by saying "What follows I composed yesterday morning, thinking there might be no impropriety in placing it so as to be visible only to a Person sitting within the Nich, which we hollowed out of the Sand-stone in the Winter Garden. I am told that this is, in the present form of the Nich, impossible; but I shall be most ready, when I come to Coleorton, to scoop out a place for it, if Lady Beaumont thinks it worth while;" transcribing the poem beginning "Oft is the Medal faithful to its trust"; saying that the one fault of the poems is that "...they are too long; but I was unable to do justice to the thoughts in less Room;" adding that the second poem has caused him to think about Sir John Beaumont and his brother Francis and that he hopes to republish Sir John's poems and discussing how best to do that; adding, in a postscript, how shocked he was to hear about Sharp, asking how he is doing and "...how does the School go on?;" adding that they saw Mr. Bell with Southey at the School.