BIB_ID
403765
Accession number
MA 1581.269
Creator
Wordsworth, Mary, 1770-1859.
Display Date
Rydal, England, 1825 February 25.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (6 pages, with address) ; 32.3 x 20 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 39.
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 and fragment of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouche."
Year of writing from published letter cited below.
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 and fragment of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouche."
Year of writing from published letter cited below.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Concerning a poem written by Wordsworth on the death of Sir George's sister-in-law; mentioning the corrections that were made to the original verse and saying she "...will re transcribe The additional story last sent is intended to close the address ..."; saying that she believes Lady Beaumont sent the poem with the inscription, so she will retranscribe the whole & shall be gratified if Miss Wills will accept the Copy from me. - To fit the lines, intended for an urn for a monument W. has altered the closing stanza - who (tho' they are not what he would have produced had he first cast them with a view of the Church) he hopes you will not disapprove;" saying that nothing would have pleased her sister Sarah more than to have gone to Coleorton to plant flowers in the garden; adding that Southey's visit is delayed, but he is still expected, she will take care of Sir G. Dance's letters and she is "...sorry that Mr. Price's activity has received such a check;" transcribing the poem "A flower garden" beginning with "Tell me ye Zephyr's that unfold" and ending with "Though entering but as Fancy's Shade;" adding, after the transcription, "This garden is made out of Lady Caroline Price's and your own, combining the recommendations of both - Like you I enjoy the beauty of flowers but do not carry my admiration so far as my Sister, not to feel how very troublesome they are. I have more pleasure in clearing away thickets, and making such arrangements as produced the Winter Garden and those sweet glades behind Coleorton Church;" transcribing the poem "To Sir Geo. H. Beaumont Bart" beginning with "O for a dirge- but why complain?"; transcribing the poem "The inscription" beginning with "By vain affections unenthralled"; transcribing the poem "To Sir George Beaumont Bart" beginning with "O for a dirge- but why complain?", with different verses than previous transcription; transcribing the poem "Inscription in the Church of Coleorton" beginning with "By vain affections unenthralled,"with different verses than previous transcription.
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