This collection is open for research.
Poet and author William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth,
Cumberland, England. He began attending St. John's College, Cambridge the same
year he published his first poem, in 1787, and he earned his B.A. in 1791. Along
with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth is credited with originating the Romantic
Age of English Literature with the joint publication
Lyrical Ballads (1798). He was
England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. Wordsworth's
most famous work,
The Prelude, was published posthumously in 1850.
Items are arranged chronologically.
Correspondents in the collection include: Beck, J. V. A.; Keble, John; Rix, Herbert;
Wordsworth, Christopher; Wordsworth, Elizabeth; Wordsworth, Priscilla; Wordsworth,
Susanna.
Also included in the collection are poems by William Wordsworth, a poem by his
sister Dorothy Wordsworth, poems as tributes to Wordsworth, a memorandum book,
notebooks, an anthology compiled by Sarah Hutchinson, and a photograph of
Wordsworth's home at Rydal Mount
Note on Indexing Term - "Art": Of interest are ink sketches of cats on the verso of a letter dated August 6, 1872 in Wordsworth
II and a
photograph of a chalk drawing of Wordsworth in Wordsworth III.
Series:
Wordsworth Mss.
Box 1
Wordsworth, William to Clarkson, Thomas.
Feb. 16, 1805
Wordsworth, William to Scott, John.
Feb. 22, 1816
Wordsworth, William to Chantry, F. L.
Nov. 8, 1820
Wordsworth, William.
"Elegiac musings..."
Poem.
Nov. 1830
Wordsworth, William to Macdonald, Lawrence.
Apr. 16, 1831
Wordsworth, William to Quillinan, E.
Aug. 23, 1831
Wordsworth, William to Milton, M. I.
1831
Wordsworth, William to Southey, Robert.
[Mar. 1832]
Wordsworth, William to "My dear Madam."
Nov. 28, 1832
Wordsworth, William to Graves, R. P.
Jan. 30, 1834
Wordsworth, William.
"Oftentimes and long."
Poem.
1835
Wordsworth, William to Davy, John.
1835
Wordsworth, William to Davy, John.
Jun. 16, 1836
Wordsworth, William to Lloyd, Francis.
Sept. 14, 1836
Wordsworth, William to Lloyd, Francis.
Sept. 26, 1836
Wordsworth, Mrs. Mary to Lloyd, Francis.
Sept. 1836
Wordsworth, William to Howley, Mrs.
Nov. 20, 1837
Wordsworth, William to Lloyd, Francis.
Apr. 2, 1838
Wordsworth, William to Lloyd, Francis.
Nov. 26, 1838
[Wordsworth, William] to Kenyon, [John].
[1838]
Wordsworth, William to Kenyon, John.
Feb. 26, 1839
Southey, Robert. "The curse of Kehama."
Jun. 25, 1839
(2 lines)
Wordsworth, William to Howley, Mrs.
1839
(copy)
Wordsworth, William.
"Lines...suggested...St. Georges chapel."
Poem.
Jul. 20, 1841
Wordsworth, William to Powell, Thomas.
Aug. 19, 1841
Wordsworth, William to Howley, Mrs.
Aug. 23, 1841
Wordsworth, William to Lee [?].
Oct. 23, [1843]
Wordsworth, William.
"Suggested upon Loughrigg Fell."
Poem. Aug. 1844
"For Mrs. Wright." Engraving, autographed by Wordsworth.
1844
Wordsworth, William to Herschel, Sir John Frederick William.
Feb. 3, 1846
Wordsworth, William to Graves, R. P.
Feb. 9, 1850
Keble, John to "Dear Sir."
Oct. 14, 1851
Wright, Mrs. Sarah to Sutton, R.
Jun. 10, 1857
Wordsworth, Priscilla to Lloyd, Mrs.
Oct. 3, 1860
Wordsworth, Elizabeth to "My dear cousin."
Oct. 23, 1860
Wordsworth, Mrs. Susanna to "My dear cousin."
Apr. 13, 1863
Wordsworth, Christopher to "My dear Cousins."
Jun. 10, 1863
Wordsworth, Christopher to "My dear Cousin."
Jun. 20, 1863
Philpot, Henry to Lloyd, I.
Jul. 2, 1863
Rix, Herbert to Tomlinson, Charles.
Sept. 23, 1882
Beck, J. V. A. to Cowper, H. S.
Mar. 20, 1898
Adams, Mary M.
"Sonnet on Wordsworth."
Poem.
undated.
(Includes correspondence from Wood, Harry H. to Watkins, O. L. Oct. 13, 1931.)
Wordsworth, William.
"Suggested upon Loughrigg Fell."
Poem.
undated.
[Bowles, W. L.]
"Wordsworth."
Poem.
undated.
Photograph of Wordsworth's home, Rydal Mount.
undated.
Wordsworth, Dorothy.
"The worship of this Sabbath morn."
Poem.
undated.
Wordsworth, Mrs. Mary to Fletcher, Miss.
undated.
Wordsworth, William.
"Life, I repeat is energy of love..."
Poem.
undated.
Wordsworth, William to Graves, R. P.
undated.
Wordsworth, William to Howitt, William.
undated.
Wordsworth, William to Moxon, Mrs.
undated.
Wordsworth, William to Powell, Thomas.
undated.
Box 2
"Wordsworth." Notebook with handwritten prose.
undated.
"Paraphrase of Spenser's
Fairy Queen by William Wordsworth."
Sept. 16-30, 1835
Notebook. (Not in Wordsworth's hand.)
Memorandum book: "O. L. Watkins, Indianapolis, Ind. U.S.A."
undated.
Notebook containing "The Lyrical Ballads: 1798," a lecture by Alfred Ainger.
1888
A Study of Poetic Tributes to William Wordsworth by William Renner Feik.
Aug. 1948.
Bound Materials (No Box)
MS Poetry. WW.
1826.
Sarah Hutchinson's Poetical Anthology compiled at Wordsworth's Direction.
