Manuscript of Ws poem The Longest Day with an unpublished Manuscript Letter from Coleridge to Colonel Moore and an annotated copy of his play Remorse sent to Robert Southey

Item author: William Wordsworth and ST Coleridge
Item date: 1802 - 17
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: not recorded
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

MS letter from Coleridge to Colonel Moore about Mary Robinson, the Maid of Buttermere, who had been bigamously married to James Hatfield in 1802. The annotated copy of Remorse is probably the only copy to remain in Britain. The Wordsworth MS is the earliest surviving copy of the poem known as The Longest Day. Addressed to my daughter, Dora

Item Provenance
The Wordsworth MS belonged to Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff. Collection of Dr Michael Jaye