| Evidence: | Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how John Wordsworth received a letter from him:
"When your Friend Johnny came from school last night, his mother said to him, 'Here is a letter from - .' 'From,' he replied, 'Mr. De Quincey?' ... he ... asked me to read [it]; which I did, with a few omissions and levelling the language to his capacity ... you would have thought yourself well repaid for the trouble of writing it if you could only have seen how feelingly he was interested." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 6 Mar 1809 and 6 Mar 1809 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Dorothy Wordsworth |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
John Wordsworth (aged around 6) |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Thomas De Quincey |
| Title: | Letter |
| Genre: | letter |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 1234 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Editor: | Ernest De Selincourt | |
| Title: | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811 | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 291 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, Part I: 1806-1811 (Oxford, 1969), 1, p. 291, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1234, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| From Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, [7 March 1809]. |
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