Abstract
Items relating to Wordsworth and his family. Includes first drafts of poems written by Wordsworth. Also included are manuscripts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Hutchinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, Robert Southey, Lord Byron, and John Keats.
Dates
- 1656 - 1987
- Majority of material found within 1798 - 1850
Creator
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. (Person)
- Aders, Elizabeth Smith. (Person)
- Barker, John T. (Person)
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. (Person)
- Campbell, James Dykes, 1838-1895. (Person)
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. (Person)
- Clarkson, Catherine. (Person)
- Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883. (Person)
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. (Person)
- Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852. (Person)
- Cottle, Joseph, 1770-1853. (Person)
- De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. (Person)
- Gordon, George Huntly, 1798-1868. (Person)
- Hamilton, William Rowan, Sir, 1805-1865. (Person)
- Haney, John Louis, 1877-1960. (Person)
- Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846. (Person)
- Hill, Herbert, 1810-1892. (Person)
- Hoare, Hannah. (Person)
- Hutchinson, Elizabeth, 1820-1905. (Person)
- Hutchinson, Joanna, 1780-1843. (Person)
- Hutchinson, John, 1768-1833. (Person)
- Hutchinson, Mary Monkhouse, 1787-1858. (Person)
- Hutchinson, Sara, 1775-1835. (Person)
- Hutchinson, Thomas, 1773-1849. (Person)
- Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933. (Person)
- Jackson, William. (Person)
- Keats, John, 1795-1821. (Person)
- Knight, William Angus, 1836-1916. (Person)
- Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. (Person)
- Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864. (Person)
- Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839. (Person)
- Lloyd, Sophia Pemberton, -1839. (Person)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. (Person)
- Manning, Thomas, 1772-1840. (Person)
- Monkhouse, George, 1756-1802. (Person)
- Monkhouse, John, 1782-1866. (Person)
- Monkhouse, Mary Elizabeth. (Person)
- Monkhouse, Thomas, 1783-1825. (Person)
- Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851. (Person)
- Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. (Person)
- Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 1802-1839. (Person)
- Quillinan, Edward, 1791-1851. (Person)
- Reed, Henry, 1808-1854. (Person)
- Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867. (Person)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. (Person)
- Southey, Robert, 1774-1843. (Person)
- Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854. (Person)
- Walton, Jonathan, 1774-1846. (Person)
- Wilson, John, 1785-1854. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Charles, 1806-1892. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Christopher, 1774-1846. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Dora, 1804-1847. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Gordon Graham, 1860-1935. (Person)
- Wordsworth, John, 1805-1839. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Mary, 1770-1859. (Person)
- Wordsworth, Susanna Frere. (Person)
- Wordsworth, William, 1810-1883. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
English poet, one of the founders of the Romantic movement in English literature.
Extent
35.8 cubic feet. (35.8 cubic feet.)
1 DVDs. (1 DVDs.)
3 mapcase folders. (3 mapcase folders.)
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
Organized into the following series: Bound manuscripts; documents; reviews, pamphlets, etc.; letters by Wordsworth; letters to Wordsworth, together with manuscripts by other writers; objects; broadsides; portraits and other pictures.
Bound manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by title keyword; letters by Wordsworth, in chronological order; and letters to Wordsworth, alphabetically by correspondent.
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Manuscripts - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 2; Circa 1840; Harriet L. Barnes, Journal of a tour to the Lakes in the autumn of 1840
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 3 +; 1799-1800; William Wordsworth, The brothers: a pastoral poem
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 4 +; Circa 1834-1837; Baron George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron "Childe Harold" proofs and letter
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 5 +; 1822-1823; Baron George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron story and letter page with seal
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 6 +; Oct. 13, 1806; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Thomas Clarkson
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 7 tiny; Jun. 25, 1799; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Parry
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 8 ++; 1656-1828; The Cottle album
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 9; 1809; Thomas De Quincey, Notes on Wordsworth's Convention of Cintra
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 10 +; 1883-1887; Harry Goodwin, Pen and ink drawings illustrating Wordsworth's poems
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 11-13 +; 1949; Everett M. Hankins, Literary criticism by William Wordsworth
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 14 +; Circa 1830-1899; Fanny Johnstone, "Dorothy Wordsworth" play
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 15-17; 1809-1823; Lady Diana Le Fleming, Le Fleming family account books
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 18-19; Circa 1800; Charles Lloyd, Isabel, a domestick tale, or, Godwin vs. Godwin
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 20; 1845; Rachel Myers Meakin, Album
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 21 +; Circa 1840; C. Partridge and M. Partridge, Smiles and tears
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 22 ++; 1892-1955; Cynthia Morgan St. John, Scrapbook on Wordsworth
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 23; 1829; Emily Trevenen, Album
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 24 +; Circa 1890; J.R. Tutin, The Wordsworth year-book
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 25; Circa 1900-1919; Cynthia Morgan St. John, A scrap book of parodies
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 26 ++; 1890s; A Wordsworth scrap-book
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 27; 1823-1868; Dora Wordsworth, Commonplace book
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 28; 1800s; Foreign inns
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 29 ++; Circa 1839; William Wordsworth, Poem and note
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 30 tiny; Circa 1833; William and Mary Wordsworth, Notebook
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 31; Circa 1828; Wordsworth portrait and letter
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 32 ++; Circa 1800-1848; Wordsworth portraits and letter
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 33 +++; Circa 1807; William Wordsworth, Poems in two volumes
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 352 tiny; 1827; Silhouette portrait album of the Hutchinson family
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 353 +; Circa 1830-1839; Benjamin Robert Haydon, Album
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 354 ++; 1888-1919; Lake District scrapbook
- 4621 Bd. Ms. 355 +; 1964; Dove cottage films and xerographs in the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University Library
Physical Description
Letters, manuscripts, broadsides, pictures, documents, and objects.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Liz Muller
- Date completed:
- March 2009
- EAD encoding:
- Liz Muller
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, January 2019
General
The container list below currently includes only the bound manuscript items in the collection.
Dove Cottage manuscripts are reproductions of the originals.
- Authors, English.
- Domestic relations -- England.
- England -- Description and travel.
- England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- English literature -- 19th century.
- Hutchinson family.
- Monkhouse family.
- Portraits.
- Romanticism -- England.
- Women authors -- England.
- Wordsworth family.
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Liz Muller
- Date
- March 2009
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu