urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00983 William Wordsworth: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp Harry Ransom Center, 2013 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp 21 November 2013 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 William Wordsworth Collection 1804-1848, undated 1 box (.21 linear feet) Contains manuscripts and letters by the English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. Correspondents include John Gardner, Richard Parkinson, Edward Quillinan, Richard Sharpe, and Mrs. Wordsworth. English Manuscript Collection MS-4594 Access:

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 Container List Works: 1.1 Composed in one of the Catholic cantons, signed handwritten manuscript / copy, Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan’s hand, 1 page, undated. Written below an original pencil drawing. 1.2 Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798, signed handwritten manuscript / fragment / fair copy written on pastedown of the detached upper cover of a notebook, 1 page, 27 August 1825 (Rydal Mount). 1.1 Lines left upon a seat in a yew-tree…, signed handwritten manuscript / fragment / fair copy, 1 page, 19 October 1848. 1.1 Sonnet: Hark, tis the thrush - undaunted undeprest…, handwritten manuscript signed twice, Easter Sunday 1838. “Transcribed for his young friend, Miss Roughsedge, by the author.” From the Hanley Collection. 1.1 Written after the death of Charles Lamb, page proofs with handwritten revisions and notes in Wordsworth's hand / photostatic copy, 7 pages, circa 1835. Gift of Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ. Letters: 1.3 3 ALS to Gardner, John, 27 December 1832, 3 February 1833, 20 August 1846. Removed from Wn W892 793d, Wn W892 793e, Wn W892 798ab. From the Wrenn Collection. 1.3 ALS to Parkinson, Richard, 9 December 1834. Body of letter in another hand. From the Drake Collection. 1.4 2 ALS to Quillinan, Edward, 28 November 1828, undated. Removed from Wn W892 820r, Wn W892 846t. From the Wrenn Collection. 1.5 ALS to Sharpe, Richard, 30 November 1804. From Hanley II. 1.3 ALS to Wordsworth, Mrs., undated. Recipient: 1.6 Parkinson, Richard. ALS to Wordsworth, 8 December 1834. From the Drake Collection.