252. W. W. to Jane Marshall

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Ernest De Selincourt and Alan G. Hill (eds), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 4: The Later Years: Part I: 1821–1828 (Second Revised Edition)

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252. W. W. to JANE MARSHALL

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LY i. 253.

Keswick,

Friday [22 Sept. 1826]²

Dear Mrs. Marshall,

Many thanks for your obliging letter. My visit here was to Mr. Southey, whom I had not seen before since the death of his (p. 485) pg 485child. But Sir G. Beaumont and Mr Rogers¹ are both here, and I am committed with them and Mr. Southey, to-day we go to Buttermere, and I could not get off an engagement to-morrow. I shall however call at Halsteads towards the latter part of next week, and then perhaps we may settle when I can have the pleasure of paying a visit in which I have been thus far disappointed. Dora, I am happy to learn, is considerably better, so that I hope she may be trusted over the mountain.

I am truly sorry for Mr. Marshall's accident particularly so in this most beautiful weather.

I promise myself a good deal of pleasure in [ ] the neighbourhood of Buttermere.

I remain dear Mrs. Marshall

faithfully your obliged

W. Wordsworth

My sister is at present at Sir G. Beaumont's.²

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² For date see Rogers, i. 434–5.

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¹ Sir George Beaumont and Rogers had arrived at Ambleside on 8 Sept., dined at Rydal Mount on the 10th, and moved on to Keswick on the 15th, where W. W. joined them—as Southey's guest—on the 19th. See also SH, p. 324.

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² i.e. at Coleorton.

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Ernest De Selincourt and Alan G. Hill (eds), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 4: The Later Years: Part I: 1821–1828 (Second Revised Edition)

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252. W. W. to JANE MARSHALL

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