BIB_ID
403777
Accession number
MA 1581.282
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
England, 1827.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.8 x 18.8 cm
Notes
This manuscript was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth) 51.
These sonnets were numbers XX, XXIII, XXIV and XXV of Part III of Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets."
The date provided is the date of publication. The date of composition is not known.
This manuscript 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).
The first line of Baptism, "Blest be the Church, that watching o'er the needs" differs from Selincourt, in which the first line is "Dear be the Church that, watching o'er the needs".
These sonnets were numbers XX, XXIII, XXIV and XXV of Part III of Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sonnets."
The date provided is the date of publication. The date of composition is not known.
This manuscript 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).
The first line of Baptism, "Blest be the Church, that watching o'er the needs" differs from Selincourt, in which the first line is "Dear be the Church that, watching o'er the needs".
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Being a fair copy of four sonnets from Part III "Ecclesiastical Sonnets" Baptism, Confirmation, "Confirmation continued, and "Sacrament" and an unknown hand, possibly that of Dorothy Wordsworth.
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