Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ms, prose Red leather notebook of recollections by Dorothy Wordsworth in her hand (142 leaves originally). A copy with corrections of her 'Recollections of a tour made in Scotland'. Probably copied between December 29 1805 and February 21 1806. Later corrections probably date from around 1822. There is an inscription in the front of the notebook 'Dora Wordsworth, from her aff[ectiona]te Father J Wordsworth. Nov 1 1866'. This is the poet's eldest son to his daughter. Also contains transcriptions of some of William Wordsworth's poems. Size 227mm x 179mm (hxw). This manuscript is also known as MS. B of 'Recollections of a Tour in Scotland'. Red leather bound volume with paper boards and metal clasps, commercially prepared. Watermark crowned shield bearing a hunting horn. See below for a full list of the contents of this manuscript (DCMS 54.1-54.15). Inscriptions: ink (top left of first leaf): Dora Wordsworth / from her aff[ectiona]te Father / J Wordsworth / Nov 1st 1866 Provenance: Bequest of Gordon Graham Wordsworth, 1935 Exhibited: Dorothy Wordsworth: Wonders of the Everyday, The Wordsworth Trust, 2013-4 Dorothy Wordsworth, Liverpool Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, 2014-5, Cat. number: Dorothy: Writer, Sister, Friend, Wordsworth Grasmere, 2021-2 RW Literature: Curtis, J.1983, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Poems, in Two Volumes, and Other Poems, 1800-1807 (p.xxii) See also: DCMS 54.1 ('Dorothy Wordsworth's Scotch Tour 1803, MS B' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)) DCMS 54.2 ('A Bard's Epitaph' by Robert Burns (1759-1796), ms first line 'Is there a man whose judgement clear') DCMS 54.3 ('To the Sons of Burns' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Ye now are panting up Life's hill') DCMS 54.4 ('To a Highland Girl' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower') DCMS 54.5 ('Browne's Britannia Pastorals' by William Browne (c.1590-c.1645), ms first line 'As I have seen when on the breast of Thames') DCMS 54.6 ('The Prelude' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line '_____ brook and road, were fellow travellers in this gloomy pass') DCMS 54.7 ('In the pass of Killicranky' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Six thousand veterans practised in war's game') DCMS 54.8 ('Glen-Almain or the Narrow Glen' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'In this still place remote from men') DCMS 54.9 ('Stepping Westward' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line '"What you are stepping westward?" Yea') DCMS 54.10 ('Rob Roy's Grave' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'A famous man is Robin Hood') DCMS 54.11 ('The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Behold her single in the field') DCMS 54.12 ('Sonnet composed at _____ Castle' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Degenerate Douglass! thou unworthy Lord') DCMS 54.13 ('Yarrow unvisited' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'From Stirling castle we had seen') DCMS 54.14 ('Yarrow unvisited' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'From Stirling castle we had seen') DCMS 54.15 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Fly some kind Spirit, fly to Grasmeer Vale!')

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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.