Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth and books from Wordsworth's library

Item author: William and Mary Wordsworth
Item date: 1806 to 1843
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 58,647
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2003
Item institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

The Trust bought 10 lots at the sale, including letters of William & Mary Wordsworth to William's cousin Edward Ferguson of 1837 and books owned and annotated by the poet. This group includes Wordsworth's own annotated copy of his Poems … including Lyrical Ballads (2 volumes, Longman, 1815) and Volume III (Longman 1820).

Item Provenance
Richard Wordsworth (great-great-great-grandson of the poet; his executors' sale, Sotheby's, 11 December 2003.