Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ms, letter Wordsworth, Dorothy. - Letter, from Brinsop Court, near Hereford to Miss Laing, at Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, dated 29 March 1826. - 2 typed copies (3 sheets each). - Describes her hope that she and William will climb Snowdon. She says Joanna Hutchinson's health is better but that 'she is still delicate'. She also writes of Sir Walter Scott's financial difficulties. She writes that if they have to leave Rydal Mount William has bought land near by to build on. Dora is very thin and has a cough but Dorothy hopes that 'in a few years her constitution will be established'. William Wordsworth is hoping to have published a 5 volume set of all his poems. - We do not have the original, now in the possession of the Library of the University of Edinburgh.

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