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Wordsworth, John (1772-1805)
John Wordsworth was the younger brother of William and Dorothy Wordsworth who went to sea after leaving school in 1787. He lived at Dove Cottage from January-September 1800, Dorothy writing: 'He loved our cottage, he helped us to furnish it, and to make the gardens'. The happiness of the early years at Dove Cottage when Wordsworth talked of the 'happy band' of family and friends, was dealt a heavy blow with the death of their brother John in 1805. John was captain of the East India Company’s largest ship, The Earl of Abergavenny, and died in February 1805 when rough seas forced his ship onto rocks within sight of Weymouth.

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There are 48 works by Wordsworth, John (1772-1805) in the Trust's collection, e.g.:
1995.R29 Cicero, Marcus Tullius. - M. Tullii Ciceronis opera. Cum indicibus et variis lectionibus. - Oxford : Clarendoniano (?), 1783. - 10v. bound as 5. - 299 x 251mm ; text block height 288mm ; half bound brown leather ; volume 1 inscribed 'John Wordsworth' ; bookplate of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in volume 1.

1995.R171.1 Anderson, Robert. - The works of the British poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by Robert Anderson. - 1st ed. - London : John and Arthur Arch ; Bell and Bradfute ; Edinburgh : J. Mundell and Co., 1792-1795. - 13v. - 238 x 154mm ; text block height 230mm ; marbled boards, half bound red leather ; illustrated half title page ; inscribed by Wordsworth; presented to Wordsworth by his brother John ; notes or marks in volume 1, pages 101, 172, 173 and 501 ; notes or marks in volume 5, pages 479 and 482 ; notes in volume 6, page 240 ; correction to the text in volume 8, page 417 ; in volume 2 Shakespeare's Sonnets have been graded by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), as 'first class of goodness', '2nd or next higher', '3rd or higher still', '4th or highest', and 'The figures mark how many lines the praise is meant to extend to. [? ?]. If the / marks be placed on the left, or before the Number of the Sonnet, the manner or / style is praised, if on the right or behind it, the thoughts or matter: if over / the number, both style and thought: - all according to the feelings & taste / of S.T.C.'

DCMS 26.16 Untitled poem by Elizabethan writer Robert Greene. First line, 'Ah what is love.-it is a pretty thing'. Leaves 24v-25r. Composition date unknown. Reed says that it was transcribed by John Wordsworth; if so it would date by September 1800.

DCMS 27 Prefatory essay to 'The Borderers' by William Wordsworth. Fair copy by John and Dorothy Wordsworth, with an epigraph for the play in William's hand (6 leaves). First line, 'Let us suppose a young Man of great intellectual prowess,'. Composed 1797; probably also transcribed 1797. Size 227mm x 186mm (hxw).

WLMS 3 / 37 Wordsworth, John. - India Office Library Marine Records. Log of the Earl of Abergavenny. Captain John Wordsworth. Voyages 1801/2 1803/4. - Transcribed by Bayard C. Dixon. - 32 sheets.

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There are 48 works by Wordsworth, John (1772-1805) in the Trust's collection, e.g.:
1995.R29		Cicero, Marcus Tullius. - M. Tullii Ciceronis opera. Cum indicibus et variis lectionibus. - Oxford : Clarendoniano (?), 1783. - 10v. bound as 5. - 299 x 251mm ; text block height 288mm ; half bound brown leather ; volume 1 inscribed 'John Wordsworth' ; bookplate of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in volume 1.
1995.R171.1		Anderson, Robert. - The works of the British poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by Robert Anderson. - 1st ed. - London : John and Arthur Arch ; Bell and Bradfute ; Edinburgh : J. Mundell and Co., 1792-1795. - 13v. - 238 x 154mm ; text block height 230mm ; marbled boards, half bound red leather ; illustrated half title page ; inscribed by Wordsworth; presented to Wordsworth by his brother John ; notes or marks in volume 1, pages 101, 172, 173 and 501 ; notes or marks in volume 5, pages 479 and 482 ; notes in volume 6, page 240 ; correction to the text in volume 8, page 417 ; in volume 2 Shakespeare's Sonnets have been graded by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), as 'first class of goodness', '2nd or next higher', '3rd or higher still', '4th or highest', and 'The figures mark how many lines the praise is meant to extend to. [? ?]. If the / marks be placed on the left, or before the Number of the Sonnet, the manner or / style is praised, if on the right or behind it, the thoughts or matter: if over / the number, both style and thought: - all according to the feelings & taste / of S.T.C.'
DCMS 26.16		Untitled poem by Elizabethan writer Robert Greene. First line, 'Ah what is love.-it is a pretty thing'. Leaves 24v-25r. Composition date unknown. Reed says that it was transcribed by John Wordsworth; if so it would date by September 1800.
DCMS 27		Prefatory essay to 'The Borderers' by William Wordsworth. Fair copy by John and Dorothy Wordsworth, with an epigraph for the play in William's hand (6 leaves). First line, 'Let us suppose a young Man of great intellectual prowess,'. Composed 1797; probably also transcribed 1797. Size 227mm x 186mm (hxw).
WLMS 3 / 37		Wordsworth, John. - India Office Library Marine Records. Log of the Earl of Abergavenny. Captain John Wordsworth. Voyages 1801/2 1803/4. - Transcribed by Bayard C. Dixon. - 32 sheets.