Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
; William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
ms, dwjNotebook of journal entries by Dorothy Wordsworth and verse by William Wordsworth, each in the hand of the author (82 leaves, 14 stubs). Journal entries are between 1798 and 1802; verse composed and transcribed December 1799. Size 149mm x 94mm (hxw). Includes DW Journals 10 October 1801 - 14 February 1802.
The notebook contains the first part of Dorothy's Hamburg journal, from 14 September to 1 October 1798 ('I quitted London Friday 14th September 1798'). At the other end of the book is her Grasmere journal from 10 October 1801 to 14 February 1802 ('Saturday 10th October: Coleridge went to Keswick after we had built Sara's seat').
The sheets are watermarked with the 'Garden of Holland' design (PRO PATRIA over a maid and a lion in a palisade).
See below for a full list of the verse in this manuscript (DCMS 25.1-25.4).
Provenance:
Bequest of Gordon Graham Wordsworth, 1935
Exhibited:
Dorothy Wordsworth: Wonders of the Everyday, The Wordsworth Trust, 2013-4
Dorothy: Writer, Sister, Friend, Wordsworth Grasmere, 2021-2
Literature:
Butler, J.Green, K.1992, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Lyrical Ballads, and Other Poems, 1797-1800 (p.xxiv, 141-59, 566-83)
See also:
DCMS 25.1 (Draft work towards sections of 'The Brothers' by William Wordsworth.)
DCMS 25.2 (Draft relating to lines of the untitled poem 'There is an Eminence,-of these our hills' by William Wordsworth. One of his 'Poems on the Naming of Places'.)
DCMS 25.3 (Draft relating to lines of the untitled poem 'It was an April morning: fresh and clear' by William Wordsworth. One of his 'Poems on the Naming of Places'.)
DCMS 25.4 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth. One of his 'Poems on the Naming of Places'; published as 'To M.H.'.)
DCMS 19 (Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal; 14 February - 2 May 1802.)
DCMS 20 (Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal; 14 May - 22 December 1800.)
DCMS 31 (Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal; May 1802 - January 1803.)
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