Letter from E.H. Cradock, Oxford, to William Angus Knight, 1884 May 31 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying he will not be at a meeting at Lambeth as his wife is very ill with Bright's disease; saying they will not be able to occupy "...the house at Grasmere where we have spent so many happy summers. But everything must have an end. I hope that you are making preparations for the Life of Wordsworth - Scarcely a biography of any eminent person among his contemporaries appears without some mention of him - It appears to me that you might compile a very interesting chapter of anecdotes - e.g. I send you an extract from Alaric Watts life - highly characteristic of W.W. There are several letters from Wordsworth chiefly about the sale of his works - There is curious criticism of his on Christabel - he considered it an indelicate poem!! p. 239. I think that you would find the book worth borrowing;" adding, on an enclosed page, "Life of Alaric Watts / Bentley & Son 1884 / Vol I p. 240 / He [Wordsworth] asked me [Mrs. Watts / A.W.'s wife] what I thought the finest elegiac composition in the Language and when I diffidently suggested Lycidas, he replied - you are not far wrong - It may, I think be affirmed that Milton's Lycidas and my Laodamia are twin Immortals. / see also other parts of the same chapter; / and of other chapters in the life which contain references to W.W. / see table of contents at beginning of each Vol. There is no Index."