Letter from E.H. Cradock, Oxford, to William Angus Knight, 1878 June 29 : autograph manuscript signed.

Providing details on specific natural elements found in Wordsworth's poems; saying "I have heard form Miss Cookson since I wrote to you. There is, as I supposed, no doubt whatever as to the tree near the upper wall being the true one. W.W. shewed it himself to Miss Cookson & others a few days before Dora's death - The wall was then in a ruined plight and the party scrambled thro' the stones on the White Moss Common. John's walk is close to the tree. Miss C. does not know accurately about the property at Paterdale. Bowness Church was certainly [illegible] by W.W. to Grasmere for some purposes - but Miss C. cannot say anything about the dial. She says that W. Wordsworth of Bombay is the literary Executor & probably has the M.S. in conjunction with his Uncle William - who I think lives at Eton or Windsor;" commenting on Wordsworth's description of the parsonage at Little Langdale which "...is fully confirmed by the Poet himself - see Prose Works III. 199. The passage should be quoted as one of the best illustrations of W.W.'s disregard of exact topographical facts."