Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ms, prose Two green leather notebooks of prose and verse chiefly by Dorothy Wordsworth in the hand of Catherine Clarkson (164 leaves originally in volume I and 136 leaves in volume II). 1803. Contains a fair copy of Dorothy's 'Recollections of a Tour in Scotland' and copies of poems by William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Size 230mm x 180mm (hxw). Two leather bound volumes both with the title 'Scotch Tour' on the front cover. Watermark C WILMOTT and countermarked variously 1803, 1804, and 1805. The poems were transcribed later than the copy of 'Recollections'. This manuscript is also known as MS. A of 'Recollections of a Tour in Scotland'. See below for a full list of the contents of this manuscript (DCMS 50.1-50.17). Provenance: Bequest of Gordon Graham Wordsworth, 1935 Exhibited: Dorothy's Colour, The Wordsworth Museum, 2017 Literature: Curtis, J.1983, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Poems, in Two Volumes, and Other Poems, 1800-1807 (p.xxii) Ketcham, C.H.1989, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Shorter Poems, 1807-1820 (p.xxiv, 595-596) Levin, S. M.1987, Dorothy Wordsworth & Romamticism, Rutgers, The State University, p. 175-188, See also: DCMS 50.1 ('Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland' by Dorothy Wordsworth.) DCMS 50.2 (Untitled verse by Robert Burns. First line 'Is there a man whose judgement clear'.) DCMS 50.3 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth. First line 'Sweet highland girl a very shower'.) DCMS 50.4 ('Brownes Britannia's Pastorals'. First line 'As I have seen when on the breast of Thames'.) DCMS 50.5 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth. First line 'Child of loud throated war, the mountain stream'.) DCMS 50.6 ('Sonnet written October 1803' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Six thousand veterans practis'd in war's games'.) DCMS 50.7 ('Glen-Almain' by William Wordsworth. First line 'In this still place remote from men'.) DCMS 50.8 ('Stepping Westward' by William Wordsworth. First line '"What you are stepping westward?" Yea'.) DCMS 50.9 ('Sonnet composed at ____ Castle' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Degenerate Douglas, thou unworthy Lord!'.) DCMS 50.10 ('Yarrow Unvisited' by William Wordsworth. First line 'From Stirling Castle we had seen'.) DCMS 50.11 ('The Lay of the Last Minstrel' by Walter Scott. First line 'Aye! Twine thy locks with fresh Spring Flowers'.) DCMS 50.12 ('To my neice Dorothy, a sleepless baby' 'The Cottager to her Infant' by Dorothy Wordsworth. First line 'The days are cold; the nights are long'.) DCMS 50.13 ('An address to a child in a high wind' by Dorothy Wordsworth. First line 'What way does the wind come? What way does he go?'.) DCMS 50.14 ('The Mother's Return' by Dorothy Wordsworth. First line 'Sweet babes, a month is past and gone'.) DCMS 50.15 ('A Sketch' by Dorothy Wordsworth. First line 'There is a cottage in our Dale'.) DCMS 50.16 ('Grasmere - A Fragment' by Dorothy Wordsworth. First line 'Peaceful our valley, fair and green'.) DCMS 50.17 (A note to 'Madame Clarkson' from James Pennington, Hartford, Connecticut, U. S.)

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Further information on Dorothy Wordsworth's visit to Carlisle before her tour of Scotland can be found inJoseph Massey's article.