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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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XI
In
the
following
year,
1823,
Wordsworth
and
his
wife
left
Lee
Priory,
"for
a
little
tour
in
Flanders
and
Holland,"
as
he
phrased
it
in
a
letter
to
John
Kenyon.
He
wrote
16th
May:--
"We
shall
go
to
Dover,
with
a
view
to
embark
for
Ostend
to-morrow,
unless
detained
by
similar
obstacles.
From
Ostend
we
mean
to
go
to
Ghent,
to
Antwerp,
Breda,
Utrecht,
Amsterdam--to
Rotterdam
by
Haarlem,
the
Hague,
and
Leyden--thence
to
Antwerp
by
another
route,
and
perhaps
shall
return
by
Mechlin,
Brussels,
Lille,
and
Ypres
to
Calais--or
direct
to
Ostend
as
we
came.
We
hope
to
be
landed
in
England
within
a
month.
We
shall
hurry
through
London
homewards,
where
we
are
naturally
anxious
already
to
be,
having
left
Rydal
Mount
so
far
back
as
February...."
The
extracts
taken
from
Mary
Wordsworth's
Journal
show
how
far
they
conformed
to,
and
how
far
they
departed
from,
their
original
plan
of
travel.
In
them
will
be
found
the
same
directness
and
simplicity,
the
same
vividness
of
touch,
as
are
seen
in
her
Journal
of
the
longer
tour
taken
in
1820.
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