Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ms, letter Wordsworth, Dorothy. - Letter from Allfoxden, to Miss [Mary] Hutchinson, Sockburn, near Northallerton, Yorkshire, (redirect to Stockton). - Dated March 5, p.m. 1798. - 'You desire me, my dear Mary, to send you a copy of the Ruined Cottage ...'. - Contains extensive extracts of an early version of 'The Ruined Cottage' subsequently incorporated with alterations in The Excursion Bk. 1 (The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 5 vols, ed. E. de Selincourt, vol. V, 8-37). - No. 83 in The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth... 1787-1805 ed. E. de Selincourt, revised by Chester L. Shaver.

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