William Wordsworth (1770-1850) ms, verse Corrected proofs and manuscript additions for William Wordsworth's pamphlet 'Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two Letters Re-printed from the Morning Post'. Mostly in the hand of Edward Quillinan, with some revisions by William Wordsworth and possibly Henry Crabbe Robinson. Includes two letters and four poems. Composed and transcribed between December 1844 and January 1845. Size 192mm x 118mm and 328mm x 204mm (hxw). Wordsworth initially wrote the letters to the 'Morning Post' in December 1844 in response to criticism he had received for his 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway'. This led to further abuse, so he decided to revise the letter and the sonnet and republish them as a pamphlet for private circulation. This MS. is the corrections and additions for that pamphlet. It includes corrections to printed copies of the letters, 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway' and 'Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in time of old', as well as manuscript additions to the letters, including two further poems. This is addressed to Mssrs. Branthwaite, Printers, Kendal, and postmarked January 1845. See below for a full list of the contents of this manuscript (DCMS 157.1-157.4). Provenance: Bequest of Gordon Graham Wordsworth, 1935 Exhibited: Wordsworth Country: Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls, The Wordsworth Trust, 2016-? RW Literature: Reed, M.L.1991, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, The Thirteen-book Prelude (I : p.190) Curtis, J.1999, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Last Poems, 1821-1850 (p.l) Owen, W.J.B. and Smyser, J.W.1974, The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, Clarendon Press, III (p.333-356) Jackson, G.2004, The Cornell Wordsworth, Cornell University Press, Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, 1820-1845 (p.xliii) See also: DCMS 157.1 ('Sonnet. On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway' by William Wordsworth. First line, 'Is there no nook of English ground secure'.) DCMS 157.2 (Untitled verse by William Wordsworth. First line, 'Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in time of old,'.) DCMS 157.3 (Untitled section from 'The Prelude' by William Wordsworth. First line, 'Brook & road'.) DCMS 157.4 ('Steamboats & Railways' by William Wordsworth. First line, 'Motions & Means, on sea & land at war'.)

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