Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ms, prose Two bound volumes of prose description by Dorothy Wordsworth'. Contains Dorothy's Journal of a Tour on the Continent. Fair copy in the hand of 'a young friend' with some notes in Dorothy Wordsworth's hand and several by Henry Crabb Robinson. Contains poems by William Wordsworth and prints obtained by Dorothy from Henry Crabb Robinson. Notebooks are titled 'Journal of a Tour' 1 and 2. The Journal begins on 'Monday July 10th 1820', with this fair copy dating from 1827. Two notebooks bound with marble boards and green cloth spines, title in gold lettering on the spine. See below for a full list of the contents of this manuscript (DCMS90.1-90.35). 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 Literature: Jackson, G.2004, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, 1820-1845 (p.xxxiii) Boden, H.1995, Thoemmes Press, Dorothy Wordsworth, The Continental Journals, See also: DCMS 90.1 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.2 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.3 ('Sonnet - Author's Voyage Down the Rhine (thirty years ago)' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'The confidence of Youth our only Art ') DCMS 90.4 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Jesu! bless our slender Boat') DCMS 90.5 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.6 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.7 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.8 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.9 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.10 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Around a wild and woody hill') DCMS 90.11 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.12 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line '"What know we of the Blest above') DCMS 90.13 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.14 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Tracks let me follow far from human kind') DCMS 90.15 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.16 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'For gentlest uses, oft times, Nature takes') DCMS 90.17 (Untitled pen and ink wash) DCMS 90.18 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Now passing Ursuren's open vale serene') DCMS 90.19 (Untitled pen and ink wash) DCMS 90.20 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'But fancy with the speed of fire') DCMS 90.21 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.22 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'What beast of chase hath broken from the cover?') DCMS 90.23 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.24 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.25 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.26 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.27 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Fetch, sympathizing Powers of air') DCMS 90.28 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Communities are lost, and empires die') DCMS 90.29 (Untitled prose by Henry Crabbe Robinson, ms first line 'NB: Miss W has omitted..') DCMS 90.30 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.31 (Untitled etching) DCMS 90.32 (Untitled prose by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)) DCMS 90.33 (Untitled prose by Brockden) DCMS 90.34 (Untitled prose by Charles Joseph Latrobe) DCMS 90.35 (Untitled prose by Henry Crabbe Robinson)

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