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Letter from Christopher Wordsworth, London, to Sir George Beaumont, 1851 September 4 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
414626
Accession number
MA 1581.229
Creator
Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
Display Date
London, England, 1851 September 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.3 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Wordsworth gives the place of writing as "Cloisters / Westminster," referring to Westminster Abbey.
On mourning stationery.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wordsworth, C.) 2.
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.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Returning a "M.S. Volume" that he had borrowed in the course of writing his Memoirs of William Wordsworth.