Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ms, prose Two notebooks of prose by Dorothy Wordsworth in her hand (134 leaves originally in each notebook). 1803. Contains two copies of Dorothy Wordsworth's Recollections of a Tour in Scotland. One is complete MS. C i) and the other finishes at August 27 1803 MS. C ii). In the hand of Sara Hutchinson. MS. C i) has been signed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Kendal 'Oct 24th 1806'. MS. C ii) has a title page inscribed by Thomas Hutchinson that has been pasted in. Size 227mm x 183mm (hxw). MS. C i) is half? bound in red leather, with marbled boards, in a cloth cover. Watermark W PHIPPS 1803. MS. C ii) is a quarter bound in calf, with marbled boards. Watermark RR 1803. This manuscript is also known as MS. C of 'Recollections of a Tour in Scotland'. MS. C i) is half? bound in red leather, with marbled boards, in a cloth cover. Watermark W PHIPPS 1803. MS. C ii) is a quarter bound in calf, with marbled boards. Watermark RR 1803. See below for a full list of the contents of this manuscript (DCMS 55.1-55.14). Provenance: Bequest of Gordon Graham Wordsworth, 1935 Literature: Curtis, J.1983, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Poems, in Two Volumes, and Other Poems, 1800-1807 (p.xxii) See also: DCMS 55.1 ('Recollections of a Tour in Scotland' by Dorothy Wordsworth) DCMS 55.2 ('A Bard's Epitaph' by Robert Burns. First line 'Is there a man whose judgement clear') DCMS 55.3 ('To the Sons of Burns' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Ye now are panting up life's hill') DCMS 55.4 ('To a Highland Girl' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower') DCMS 55.5 ('Britannia Pastorals' by William Browne. First line 'As I have seen when on the breast of Thames') DCMS 55.6 ('The Prelude' by William Wordsworth. Line 621 '____ brook and road, were fellow travellers in this gloomy pass') DCMS 55.7 ('In the Pass of Killicranky' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Six thousand veterans practised in war's game') DCMS 55.8 ('Glen-Almain or the Narrow Glen' by William Wordsworth. First line 'In this still place remote from men') DCMS 55.9 ('Stepping Westward' by William Wordsworth. First line '"What you are stepping westward?" Yea') DCMS 55.10 ('Rob Roy's Grave' by William Wordsworth. First line 'A Famous man is Robin Hood') DCMS 55.11 ('The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Behold her single in the field') DCMS 55.12 ('Sonnet composed at _____ Castle' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Ill wishes shall attend the unworthy Lord') DCMS 55.13 ('Yarrow Unvisited' by William Wordsworth. First line 'From Stirling Castle we had seen') DCMS 55.14 ('The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband' by William Wordsworth. First line 'Age! twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers')

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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.