Manuscripts and Typescripts written by Wordsworth

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1. Composed at Grasmere while the author was engaged with his tract upon the relations of Great Britain. Poem, cut from a letter addressed to John Edwards...with note at head "I transcribe the following sonnet, to fill up the sheet"
2. Descriptive sketches. Text and ms. transcription in Charles Eliot Norton's hand, of corrections by Wordsworth in the copy given by Dorothy Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge and later owned by Prof. Henry R. Reed
3. Excursion, The. Holograph
4. [Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg]. Holograph copy of the poem dated "Park street, May 29 [18]36.
5. Extempore effusion on reading in a newspaper the notice of the death of the poet James Hogg. In Mary Wordsworth hand, sent to Mrs. Hughes; postmarked Jan. 30, 1837.
6. Extempore effusion on reading in a newspaper the notice of the death of the poet James Hogg. In Dora Wordsworth's hand, sent to Rev. R. Graves with signed note to him in Wordsworth's hand.
7. "Hark! 'tis the thrush undaunted, undeprest". Written on the last page of an ALS to Sergeant Talfourd, postmarked, April 18, 1838.
8. "In compliance with the request of Ellicott Cresson that a few words may be added to his album from my pen..."
9. [Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a hermit's cell]. First stanza.
10. "I've heard of hearts unkind..." Holograph copy of a verse
11. Lines, left upon a seat in a yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore yet commanding a beautiful prospect. Holograph of the first 32 lines of the poem.
12. Miscellanous autograph material
13. [On a portrait of the Duke of Wellington, upon the field of Waterloo, by Haydon]. Sonnet, suggested by Haydon's picture of the Duke & Copenhagen on the field of Waterloo 20 years after the battle.
14. On the projected Kendal & Windandermere [sic] railway. Sonnet and expanatory footnote, in the hand of an amanuensis
15. Statement...that in consideration of the terms of the agreement of the same date, between Moxon and Wordsworth, Moxon be given preference in the publishing of any future edition of the works of Wordsworth. Holograph
16. [To a child. Written in her album]. Holograph copy
17. To the Dudden. Copy of the last 6 lines of the sonnet.
18. To the sons of Burns, after visiting their father's grave August 1803. Written on the first leaf of an ALS from Eliza Fletcher to Gilbert Burns
19. Transcription of 8 lines from Spenser's Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterflie, beginning "What more felicity can fall to creature"
20. "Why do good thoughts, involved or not, descend"
21. [Written after the death of Charles Lamb]. 97 lines beginning with "O he was good, if ere a good man lived!"