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Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, and Mary Moorman (eds), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 3: The Middle Years: Part II: 1812–1820 (Second Revised Edition)

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pg 522532.W. W. to THE EDITOR OF THE WESTMORLAND GAZETTE

  • MS. untraced.
  • Westmorland Gazette, 6 Feb., 1819. Pollitt, op. cit., p. 25.

Rydal Mount, Feb. 3rd, 1819.

Sir,

Having observed three original Sonnets of mine1 announced as making part of the contents of the last number of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, you will oblige me by reprinting them in your journal from my own M.S. in which they have undergone some alteration since they were presented by me to Mr Westall,2 with liberty to make what use of them he thought proper.

  • I am, Sir, respectfully yours,        
  • William Wordsworth    

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Editor’s Note
1 'Suggested by Mr W. Westall's Views of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire.' See L. 530 above.
Editor’s Note
2 See L. 524 above. Much to W. W.'s annoyance, Westall must have sent the sonnets straight off to John Wilson, editor of Blackwood's, which was still banned at Rydal Mount (see next letter). W. W. now took the opportunity of adding a fourth sonnet 'Composed During a Storm' (PW iii, p. 27), which had only just been completed.
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