Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, describing how hours following William Wordsworth's marriage to Mary Hutchinson on 4 October 1802 spent: '... [at Kirby] we went to the Churchyard [Kirby Moorside Churchyard] after we had put a letter [announcing the marriage] into the Post-office for the York Herald. We sauntered about, and read the Grave-stones. There was one to the memory of five children ... There was another stone erected to the memory of an unfortunate woman ... The verses engraved upon it expressed that she had been neglected by her Relations, and counselled the readers of those words to look within, and recollect their own frailties. We left Kirby at about half-past two.'