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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
2
VII.
RECOLLECTIONS
OF
A
TOUR
MADE
IN
SCOTLAND
(A.D.
1803)
159
PREFATORY
NOTE
The
Journals
written
by
Dorothy
Wordsworth,
and
her
reminiscences
of
Tours
made
with
her
brother,
are
more
interesting
to
posterity
than
her
letters.
A
few
fragments
from
her
Grasmere
Journal
were
included
by
the
late
Bishop
of
Lincoln
in
the
Memoirs
of
his
uncle,
published
in
1850.
The
Recollections
of
a
Tour
made
in
Scotland
in
1803,
were
edited
in
full
by
the
late
Principal
Shairp
in
the
year
1874
(third
edition
1894).
In
1889,
I
included
in
my
Life
of
William
Wordsworth
most
of
the
Journal
written
at
Alfoxden,
much
of
that
referring
to
Hamburg,
and
the
greater
part
of
the
longer
Grasmere
Journal.
Some
extracts
from
the
Journal
of
a
Tour
on
the
Continent
made
in
1820
(and
of
a
similar
one
written
by
Mrs.
Wordsworth),
as
well
as
short
records
of
subsequent
visits
to
Scotland
and
to
the
Isle
of
Man,
were
printed
in
the
same
volume.
None
of
these,
however,
were
given
in
their
entirety;
nor
is
it
desirable
now
to
print
them
in
extenso,
except
in
the
case
of
the
Recollections
of
a
Tour
made
in
Scotland
in
1803.
All
the
Journals
contain
numerous
trivial
details,
which
bear
ample
witness
to
the
"plain
living
and
high
thinking"
of
the
Wordsworth
household--and,
in
this
edition,
samples
of
these
details
are
given--but
there
is
no
need
to
record
all
the
cases
in
which
the
sister
wrote,
"To-day
I
mended
William's
shirts,"
or
"William
gathered
sticks,"
or
"I
went
in
search
of
eggs,"
etc.
etc.
In
all
cases,
however,
in
which
a
sentence
or
paragraph,
or
several
sentences
and
paragraphs,
in
the
Journals
are
left
out,
the
omission
is
indicated
by
means
of
asterisks.
Nothing
is
omitted
of
any
literary
or
biographical
value.
Some
persons
may
think
that
too
much
has
been
recorded,
others
that
everything
should
have
been
printed.
As
to
this,
posterity
must
judge.
I
think
that
many,
in
future
years,
will
value
these
Journals,
not
only
as
a
record
of
the
relations
existing
between
Wordsworth
and
his
sister,
his
wife,
her
family
and
his
friends,
but
also
as
an
illustration
of
the
remarkable
literary
brotherhood
and
sisterhood
of
the
period.
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