Lot 233
Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1885) and Coleridge, Sara (1802-1852)
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
One page A.L. unsigned to "My dear Edith" relating to Mary Bell "forfeit the forward character ... cunning enough to consider the remorse of old age... behaved so well for once entitles you to your Beaux", Cheltenham, 29 Nov., 1828; Dora Quillinan, daughter of William Wordsworth one page A.L.S. to Mrs Joshua Stanger of Keswick referring to dear Isabella and the Williamson and Stanley families; Sara Coleridge, (1802-1852), 4 page autograph note signed to "My dear friend", referring to dinner with Lady Inglis and John and Lady Herschell, undated; 4 page A.L.S. to Mrs Joshua Stanger continued with signature on the envelope, referring to her heath, Mr Newton, Lady Coleridge's health and her close relationship with her son "He and I are very thick together I assure you, he writes home 3 or 4 times a week", Feb. 1, 1844; Hannah Mary Rathbone, (1761-1839) Autograph "Sonnet on the death of Wordsworth, April 23 1851", 14 lines; with 4 printed poems by Wordsworth and 13 small albumen prints c. 9 x 7cm, of Dora & William Wordsworth, Edith Southey, Sara, Samuel Taylor, Hartley and Derwent Coleridge, mainly after paintings, Rydal Mount and graves at Grasmere