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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
5
VII
When
the
late
Principal
Shairp
edited
the
Recollections
of
a
Tour
made
in
Scotland
in
1803,
he
inserted
an
elaborate
and
valuable
introduction,
with
a
few
explanatory
and
topographical
notes.
With
the
consent
of
Mrs.
Shairp,
and
of
the
Principal's
son,
Sheriff
J.
C.
Shairp,
many
of
them
are
now
reproduced,
with
the
initials
J.
C.
S.
appended.
As
some
notes
were
needed
at
these
places,
and
I
could
only
have
slightly
varied
the
statements
of
fact,
it
seemed
better
for
the
reader,
and
more
respectful
to
the
memory
of
such
a
Wordsworthian
as
the
late
Principal
was,
to
record
them
as
his.
I
cordially
thank
Mrs.
Shairp,
and
her
son,
for
their
kindness
in
this
matter.
It
should
be
added
that
Dorothy
Wordsworth's
archaic
spelling
of
many
of
the
names
of
places,
such
as--Lanerk,
Ulswater,
Strath
Eyer,
Loch
Ketterine,
Inversneyde,
etc.,
are
retained.
These
Recollections
of
the
Tour
made
in
Scotland
were
not
all
written
down
at
the
time
during
the
journey.
Many
of
them
were
"afterthoughts."
The
Alfoxden
and
Grasmere
Journals
were
"diaries,"
in
the
sense
that--except
when
the
contrary
is
stated--they
were
written
down
day
by
day;
but
certain
portions
of
the
Scottish
Journal
suggest
either
that
they
were
entirely
written
after
the
return
to
Grasmere,
or
were
then
considerably
expanded.
I
have
not
seen
the
original
MS.
Dorothy
transcribed
it
in
full
for
her
friend
Mrs.
Clarkson,
commencing
the
work
in
1803,
and
finishing
it
on
31st
May
1805
(see
vol.
ii.
p.
78).
This
transcript
I
have
seen.
It
is
the
only
one
now
traceable.
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