mss, letters Collection of 43 manuscripts, mostly letters, dated c.1850, relating to the Richardson/Davy/Fletcher families at Lancrigg, the large house in Easedale, in whose woods it is claimed Wordsworth wrote parts of The Prelude. The letters are between the well-to-do people enjoying the ‘schemes of retirement’ defended by Wordsworth in his sonnet opposing the Windermere railway, 1844. Provenance: Gift of Keith Moore, 2023

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