Collection of manuscript letters and papers

Item author: William, Mary and Dorothy Wordsworth
Item date: 1802- 1837
Grant Value: 750
Item cost: 42,000
Item date acquired: 1978
Item institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

Amongst the collection are 31 letters dating from 1810 -12 between Mary and William Wordsworth, an early copy of the poem addressed to Sara Hutchinson by Coleridge published as Dejection: an Ode in the hand of MW and letters from Dorothy concerning the illness and death of the Wordsworths daughter Catherine. There is also an important series of letters from Wordsorth forming a journal of his London visit in 1837