Notebook of miscellaneous material; descriptions, copies of verse and letters, recipes etc. Mostly in Dorothy Wordsworth's hand (89 leaves). 1820-1836. Includes transcription of Wordsworth's 'Lines on the Bicentenary of Hawkshead School'. Size 267mm x 215mm (hxw).
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DCMS 120.1 (Untitled prose)
DCMS 120.2 ('26th June 1830 - Sunday Evening - Dictated by William Wordsworth to Dorothy Wordsworth''26th June 1830. Dictated by W Wordsworth to D Wordsworth Senior. Re-copied August 2nd 1832, D Wordsworth' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'In this fair Vale hath many a tree')
DCMS 120.3 ('26th June 1830 - Sunday Evening - Dictated by William Wordsworth to Dorothy Wordsworth' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'The merriest heart is given to sadness')
DCMS 120.4 ('Prescriptions for the experience in the cure of cholera ' by Dr. Schoeffes)
DCMS 120.5 ('Copy of Mr Carr's statement for Dr. W. Philips, 28th July 1824' by Mr Carr)
DCMS 120.6 (Untitled verse by Unknown, ms first line 'By liking, a friendship may grow out of strife, But love is the sunshine and starlight of life')
DCMS 120.7 ('Copy of a poem written by William Wordsworth as a school exercise. He was then fourteen years old' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'And has the sun his flaming chariot driven')
DCMS 120.8 ('Copy of a letter to Hindley, 6 Grays Inn, October 4th 1830 from William Wordsworth. ' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850))
DCMS 120.9 ('For a monument to be placed in the grounds of Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire to the memory of the late Sir George Howland Beaumont''Elegiac Musings' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'With copius euology in prose or rhyme')
DCMS 120.10 ('Extracts from the common-place book of Isabella Countess of Glencairn' by Isabella Countess of Glencairn)
DCMS 120.11 ('Notes by Dorothy Wordsworth' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855))
DCMS 120.12 ('On the Birth of the Littleton's eldest child - a son ' by Mary Barker, ms first line 'Of all thy ancient House, first born')
DCMS 120.13 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'A two fold harmony is here')
DCMS 120.14 ('Irregular Stanzas - Holiday at Gwerndovennant - May 1826 ''Miss Dora Wordsworth, no room for Mrs Hutchinson's letter' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'You're here for one long vernal day')
DCMS 120.15 ('Grasmere - A Fragment' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Peaceful our valley, fair often')
DCMS 120.16 ('A Sketch' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'There is one cottage in our Dale')
DCMS 120.17 ('After recollection at sight of same Cottage' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'When first I saw that dear abode')
DCMS 120.18 ('A winter's Ramble in Grasmere Vale' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'A Stranger, Grasmere, in thy Vale')
DCMS 120.19 ('To Julia Marshall - A Fragment''Irregular Verses' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Ah Julia! ask a Christmas rhyme')
DCMS 120.20 ('Memorandum of an adventure in Dr Andrew Bell's early life taken from the mouth of his sister at Cheltenham. May 30th 1831''Copied 29th June 1831. DW' by Miss Bell (?))
DCMS 120.21 ('Blair's Grave' by Campbell)
DCMS 120.22 ('Sick-bed consolations composed during the Spring of the Year 1832 ' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855))
DCMS 120.23 ('Lines intended for my Niece's Album ' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Dear Maiden, did thy youthful mind')
DCMS 120.24 ('To Dora Wordsworth' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Confiding hopes of Youthful Hearts')
DCMS 120.25 ('Lines intended for Edith Southey's Album''Continuation' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Fair Edith of the Classic Hill')
DCMS 120.26 ('Floating Island at Hawkshead, An incident in the schemes of Nature' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Harmonious Powers with Nature work')
DCMS 120.27 ('Thoughts on my sick-bed' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'And has the remnant of my life')
DCMS 120.28 ('Sonnets by Henry Hutchinson copied by Dorothy Sept Tuesday 9th 1833' by Henry Hutchinson (1769-1839), ms first line 'Dear Mona, I must leave thee for a while')
DCMS 120.29 ('Sonnets by Henry Hutchinson copied by Dorothy Sept Tuesday 9th 1833''Grassy Nook' by Henry Hutchinson (1769-1839), ms first line 'How sadly am I changed, Grassy Nook')
DCMS 120.30 ('Rydal Mount JH June 21st 1832' by Joanna Hutchinson (1780-1841), ms first line 'Why was I absent at that hour')
DCMS 120.31 ('To E. C.'' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'I've marked thee from a little child')
DCMS 120.32 ('Fragment' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Not calmer was that glorious Christmas day night')
DCMS 120.33 (Untitled verse by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'This flower, the garden's proudest boast')
DCMS 120.34 ('Fragments x-mas day' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'This is the day when kindred meet')
DCMS 120.35 ('To D' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'A thousand delicate fibres link')
DCMS 120.36 ('Lines written (rather say begun) on the morning of Sunday April 6th, the third approach of Spring-time since my illness began. It was a morning of surpassed beauty' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'The worship of this Sabbath morning')
DCMS 120.37 ('From the "forget-me-not" A. D. 1834''DW Rydal Mount Ash Wednesday Febry 12th 1834' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855))
DCMS 120.38 ('Human Life (by C. C.)' by Christopher Cookson, ms first line 'Half in day, and half in night')
DCMS 120.39 ('Scenes of Boyhood (by C. C. from the "forget-me-not" 1834)' by Christopher Cookson, ms first line 'They are the sounds of former joy')
DCMS 120.40 ('To _____' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'To things the fairest in this world')
DCMS 120.41 ('"Imitation of Horace, Book 2nd Ode 16th" by Warren Haslings made in 1785, during his voyage from India & addressed to his fellow passenger John Thaw now Lord Teignmouth' by Warren Haslings, ms first line 'For ease, the harassed Seaman prays')
DCMS 120.42 ('Coniston Lake | Sonnet | Dedicated to Miss Wordsworth.' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) (?), ms first line 'And do I once again from this high hill')
DCMS 120.43 (Untitled prose)
DCMS 120.44 (Untitled prose by CERGIEL, ms first line 'I knew thee in the morning of thy day')
DCMS 120.45 (Untitled verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) (?))
DCMS 120.46 (Untitled verse by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'I will not seek to fathom Gods' decrees')
DCMS 120.47 (Untitled verse by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'When shall I tread your garden path?')
DCMS 120.48 ('Loving and Liking. Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Dear Child I would not still be teaching', ms first line 'There's more in words than I can teach', ms first line 'Say not you love a roasted fowl')
DCMS 120.49 ('Margaret Benson (Peggy B as we called her) died Thursday Feby 8th aged 67 1838' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) by John Thaw, ms first line 'John Thaw was found lying in the church yard')
DCMS 120.50 (Untitled prose by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Thomas Carn aged 207 years. Of this venerable individual')
DCMS 120.51 ('Loving & Liking' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'You may not love a roasted fowl')
DCMS 120.52 (Untitled printed material)
DCMS 120.53 ('Lines to Dora H' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'No fairy pen wherewith to write')
DCMS 120.54 (Untitled verse)
DCMS 120.55 (Untitled printed material)
DCMS 120.56 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Chatsworth! how strange a contrast doth the pride')
DCMS 120.57 ('Route copied from Mr Elwoods overland journey to India')
DCMS 120.58 (Untitled verse by Sara Coleridge, ms first line 'Zoe, when first I saw your face')
DCMS 120.59 (Untitled verse, ms first line 'The Earth walks on the earth glistening like gold')
DCMS 120.60 (Untitled verse by W. L. Bowles, ms first line 'Reader this heap of earth, this grave-stone mark!')
DCMS 120.61 ('To ____' by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Let other Bards of angels sing')
DCMS 120.62 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), ms first line 'Ere with cold beads of midnight dew')
DCMS 120.63 (Untitled printed material by Sir Aubrey de Vere)
DCMS 120.64 (Untitled prose)
DCMS 120.65 ('Copied from the 'John Bull' of Sunday June 12th 1831 at the request of WW senior')
DCMS 120.66 (Untitled prose)
DCMS 120.67 (Untitled prose)
DCMS 120.68 ('A Tribute to the memory of the Revd John Curwen' by Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), ms first line 'Yes! let the poor afflicted weep')
