BIB_ID
403770
Accession number
MA 1581.273
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
Rydal, England, 1830 April 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.7 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 43.
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 fragment of a seal to "Sir Geo Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch."
Sir George Beaumont is the cousin and heir to Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753-1827).
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 fragment of a seal to "Sir Geo Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch."
Sir George Beaumont is the cousin and heir to Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753-1827).
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Congratulating Sir George on the birth of his second son and on "...having got through your troublesome office of the Sheriff; as it is so much more agreeable to look back upon such an employment, however honorable, than to have it in prospect;" adding that his sister, "...though obliged to keep to the habits and restraints of an Invalid for prudence-sake, is I am happy to say, in good health;" sending best wishes from his sister and Mrs. Wordsworth and adding that his son and daughter-in-law would have as well but "...they are now together in his abode, I cannot say his Parsonage (for the Living has none), at Moresby near Whitehaven."
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