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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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EXTRACTS
FROM
DOROTHY
WORDSWORTH'S
JOURNAL
(9TH
JULY
1802
TO
11TH
JANUARY
1803)
On
Friday
morning,
July
9th,
William
and
I
set
forward
to
Keswick
on
our
road
to
Gallow
Hill.
We
had
a
pleasant
ride,
though
the
day
was
showery....
Coleridge
met
us
at
Sara's
Rock....
We
had
been
told
by
a
handsome
man,
an
inhabitant
of
Wytheburn,
with
whom
he
had
been
talking
(and
who
seemed,
by
the
bye,
much
pleased
with
his
companion),
that
C.
was
waiting
for
us.
We
reached
Keswick
against
tea-time.
We
called
at
Calvert's
on
the
Saturday
evening....
On
Monday,
12th
July,
we
went
to
Eusemere.
Coleridge
walked
with
us
six
or
seven
miles.
He
was
not
well,
and
we
had
a
melancholy
parting
after
having
sate
together
in
silence
by
the
road-side.
We
turned
aside
to
explore
the
country
near
Hutton-John,
and
had
a
new
and
delightful
walk.
The
valley,
which
is
subject
to
the
decaying
mansion
that
stands
at
its
head,
seems
to
join
its
testimony
to
that
of
the
house,
to
the
falling
away
of
the
family
greatness,
and
the
hedges
are
in
bad
condition.
The
land
wants
draining,
and
is
overrun
with
brackens;
yet
there
is
a
something
everywhere
that
tells
of
its
former
possessors.
The
trees
are
left
scattered
about
as
if
intended
to
be
like
a
park,
and
these
are
very
interesting,
standing
as
they
do
upon
the
sides
of
the
steep
hills
that
slope
down
to
the
bed
of
the
river,
a
little
stony-bedded
stream
that
spreads
out
to
a
considerable
breadth
at
the
village
of
Dacre.
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