Wordsworthiana Portraits

File — Box: 38

Scope and content

From the Collection:

Letters, manuscripts, broadsides, pictures, documents, sound recordings, and objects by, to, belonging to, about, or relating to Wordsworth or his family. Includes first drafts of poems Wordsworth later published in Yarrow Revisited (1835); 51 of the sonnets published in Ecclesiastical Sketches, in an early fair copy before final revision for publication; manuscripts of 10 additional sonnets sent to Wordsworth's first American editor, Prof. Henry Reed; and a transcript made before publication of the poem "Composed Upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty." Also included are manuscripts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Hutchinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Robert Southey, Lord Byron, and John Keats. Byron manuscript is a draft of an unfinished short story; Keats manuscript is a fragment of his poem "Isabella." Coleridge manuscripts include a first version of "Dejection: An Ode," a draft of a variant of "The Eolian Harp," and other poems; fragments of essays; and notes on Schiller's plays The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein. Autograph manuscript of Mary Monkhouse sonnet "Unquiet Childhood here by special grace", likely in the hand of Dora Wordsworth.

Scope and content From the Collection:

Correspondence includes letters between the Wordsworth family and Henry Reed; letters from the Wordsworths to George Huntly Gordon, former secretary to Sir Walter Scott; correspondence with fellow writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Thomas De Quincey; and extensive correspondence among members of the Hutchinson, Monkhouse, and Wordsworth families. Also included are a few letters each from Thomas Carlyle, Walter Savage Landor, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Thomas Babington Macaulay. In addition, there are letters concerning the building of the Wordsworth Collection, from Cynthia Morgan St. John and Lane Cooper. Other correspondents include Elizabeth Smith Aders, John T. Barker, James Dykes Campbell, Catherine Clarkson, Derwent Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, William Rowan Hamilton, John Louis Haney, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Herbert Hill, Hannah Hoare, Leonard Huxley, William Jackson, William Angus Knight, Charles Lamb, Charles and Sophia Lloyd, Thomas Manning, Basil Montagu, Edward Moxon, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Edward Quillinan, Henry Crabb Robinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Jonathan Walton, John Wilson.

Dates

1656 - 1987
Majority of material found within 1798 - 1850

Creator

From the Collection: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. (Person)
From the Collection: Aders, Elizabeth Smith. (Person)
From the Collection: Barker, John T. (Person)
From the Collection: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. (Person)
From the Collection: Campbell, James Dykes, 1838-1895. (Person)
From the Collection: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. (Person)
From the Collection: Clarkson, Catherine. (Person)
From the Collection: Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883. (Person)
From the Collection: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. (Person)
From the Collection: Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852. (Person)
From the Collection: Cottle, Joseph, 1770-1853. (Person)
From the Collection: De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. (Person)
From the Collection: Gordon, George Huntly, 1798-1868. (Person)
From the Collection: Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805-1865. (Person)
From the Collection: Haney, John Louis, 1877-1960. (Person)
From the Collection: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846. (Person)
From the Collection: Hill, Herbert, 1810-1892. (Person)
From the Collection: Hoare, Hannah. (Person)
From the Collection: Hutchinson, Elizabeth, 1820-1905. (Person)
From the Collection: Hutchinson, Joanna, 1780-1843. (Person)
From the Collection: Hutchinson, John, 1768-1833. (Person)
From the Collection: Hutchinson, Mary Monkhouse, 1787-1858. (Person)
From the Collection: Hutchinson, Sara, 1775-1835. (Person)
From the Collection: Hutchinson, Thomas, 1773-1849. (Person)
From the Collection: Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933. (Person)
From the Collection: Jackson, William. (Person)
From the Collection: Keats, John, 1795-1821. (Person)
From the Collection: Knight, William Angus, 1836-1916. (Person)
From the Collection: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. (Person)
From the Collection: Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864. (Person)
From the Collection: Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839. (Person)
From the Collection: Lloyd, Sophia Pemberton, -1839. (Person)
From the Collection: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. (Person)
From the Collection: Manning, Thomas, 1772-1840. (Person)
From the Collection: Monkhouse, George, 1756-1802. (Person)
From the Collection: Monkhouse, John, 1782-1866. (Person)
From the Collection: Monkhouse, Mary Elizabeth. (Person)
From the Collection: Monkhouse, Thomas, 1783-1825. (Person)
From the Collection: Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851. (Person)
From the Collection: Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. (Person)
From the Collection: Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 1802-1839. (Person)
From the Collection: Quillinan, Edward, 1791-1851. (Person)
From the Collection: Reed, Henry, 1808-1854. (Person)
From the Collection: Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867. (Person)
From the Collection: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. (Person)
From the Collection: Southey, Robert, 1774-1843. (Person)
From the Collection: Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854. (Person)
From the Collection: Walton, Jonathan, 1774-1846. (Person)
From the Collection: Wilson, John, 1785-1854. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Charles, 1806-1892. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1774-1846. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Dora, 1804-1847. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Gordon Graham, 1860-1935. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, John, 1805-1839. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Mary, 1770-1859. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, Susanna Frere. (Person)
From the Collection: Wordsworth, William, 1810-1883. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access Restrictions:

From the Collection:

Access restricted to the permission of the curator.

Extent

35.8 cubic feet. (35.8 cubic feet.)

1 DVDs. (1 DVDs.)

3 mapcase folders. (3 mapcase folders.)

Physical Storage Information

Box: 38 (Mixed Materials)

Repository Details

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Wordsworthiana Portraits

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