Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)

7th.--Walked in the wood in the morning. In the evening, to Stowey with Coleridge who called. 8th.--Coleridge dined, went in the afternoon to tea at Stowey. A pleasant walk home. 9th.-- ... Wrote to Coleridge. Wednesday, 16th May.--Coleridge, William, and myself set forward to the Chedder rocks; slept at Bridgewater. 22nd, Thursday.[13]--Walked to Chedder. Slept at Cross. [Footnote 13: It is thus written in the MS., but the 22nd May 1798 was a Tuesday. If the entry refers to a Thursday, the day of the month should have been written 24th. Dorothy Wordsworth was not exact as to dates.--ED.] II DOROTHY WORDSWORTH'S JOURNAL OF DAYS SPENT AT HAMBURGH IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1798 EXTRACTS FROM DOROTHY WORDSWORTH'S JOURNAL OF DAYS SPENT AT HAMBURGH, IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1798[14] [Footnote 14: This is not Dorothy's own title. Her Journal has no title.--ED.] Quitted London, Friday, 14th September 1798. Arrived at Yarmouth on Saturday noon, and sailed on Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Before we heaved the anchor I was consigned to the cabin, which I did not quit till we were in still water at the mouth of the Elbe, on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock. I was surprised to find, when I came upon deck, that we could not see the shores, though we were in the river. It was to my eyes a still sea. But oh! the gentle breezes and the gentle motion!... As we advanced towards Cuxhaven the shores appeared low and flat, and thinly peopled; here and there a farm-house, cattle feeding, hay-stacks, a cottage, a windmill. Some vessels were at anchor at Cuxhaven, an ugly, black-looking place. Dismissed a part of our crew, and proceeded in the packet-boat up the river.