Ashley MS B2259, B2274, B4635, A4637, B4665

Letters (5) from Gordon Wordsworth to T. J. Wise; Dec. 1924-29 Oct. 1930. With the exception of A4637 the letters are typewritten and signed. Three of the letters concern the bibliography of An Address To the Yeomanry of Westmorland, 1820 (B2259) and An Address to the Freeholders of the County of Westmorland, 1818 (B4635), both supposedly by William Wordsworth, and of the parody of Wordsworth Benjamin the Waggoner, 1819 (B2274). In B4635 a letter from William Wordsworth to his brother Christopher, now A4635, is also discussed. Gordon Wordsworth's letter is accompanied by a carbon copy of a letter from him to J. Steel of the Carlisle Journal, 28 Jan. 1929 (B4635, f. 54), and by Steel's reply, 30 Jan. 1929 (B4635, ff. 55b-56). Both are concerned with An Address to the Freeholders of the County of Westmorland, 1818.

In the remaining two letters Wordsworth sends Wise as a gift the MSS. of William Wordsworth's 'The Waggoner' and 'At Vallombrosa', Dorothy Wordsworth's 'The Mother's Return' (A4637) and a copy of his own Some Notes On the Wordsworths of Peniston and Their Aumbry, 1929 (B4665), and thanks Wise for the gift of a copy of the latter's A Browning Library, 1929 (B4665). A4367 is printed, inaccurately, in Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 24. [Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 41; x, pp. 220, 222].