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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Sunday,
6th
June.--A
showery
morning.
We
were
writing
the
letter
to
John
Wilson
when
Ellen
came....
After
dinner
I
walked
into
John
Fisher's
intake
with
Ellen.
He
brought
us
letters
from
Coleridge,
Mrs.
Clarkson,
and
Sara
Hutchinson....
Monday,
7th
June.--I
wrote
to
Mary
H.
this
morning;
sent
the
C.
"Indolence"
poem.
Copied
the
letter
to
John
Wilson,
and
wrote
to
my
brother
Richard
and
Mrs.
Coleridge.
In
the
evening
I
walked
with
Ellen
to
Butterlip
How....
It
was
a
very
sweet
evening;
there
was
the
cuckoo
and
the
little
birds;
the
copses
still
injured,
but
the
trees
in
general
looked
most
soft
and
beautiful
in
tufts....
I
went
with
Ellen
in
the
morning
to
Rydale
Falls....
Tuesday,
8th
June.--Ellen
and
I
rode
to
Windermere.
We
had
a
fine
sunny
day,
neither
hot
nor
cold.
I
mounted
the
horse
at
the
quarry.
We
had
no
difficulties
or
delays
but
at
the
gates.
I
was
enchanted
with
some
of
the
views.
From
the
High
Ray
the
view
is
very
delightful,
rich,
and
festive,
water
and
wood,
houses,
groves,
hedgerows,
green
fields,
and
mountains;
white
houses,
large
and
small.
We
passed
two
or
three
new-looking
statesmen's
houses.
The
Curwens'
shrubberies
looked
pitiful
enough
under
the
native
trees.
We
put
up
our
horses,
ate
our
dinner
by
the
water-side,
and
walked
up
to
the
Station.
We
went
to
the
Island,
walked
round
it,
and
crossed
the
lake
with
our
horse
in
the
ferry.
The
shrubs
have
been
cut
away
in
some
parts
of
the
island.
I
observed
to
the
boatman
that
I
did
not
think
it
improved.
He
replied:
"We
think
it
is,
for
one
could
hardly
see
the
house
before."
It
seems
to
me
to
be,
however,
no
better
than
it
was.
They
have
made
no
natural
glades;
it
is
merely
a
lawn
with
a
few
miserable
young
trees,
standing
as
if
they
were
half-starved.
There
are
no
sheep,
no
cattle
upon
these
lawns.
It
is
neither
one
thing
nor
another--neither
natural,
nor
wholly
cultivated
and
artificial,
which
it
was
before.
And
that
great
house!
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