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Wordsworth, Lake District & elsewhere.- Curwen (Edward Stanley, brother-in-law John Wordsworth, Lieutenant in the 14th Light Dragoon Guards, of Workington Hall, Cumberland, 1810-75) Diary, autograph manuscript, title and c. 280pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, ink stains through paper, original calf, slightly rubbed, gilt spine, rubbed, 30th November 1835 - 7th June 1838; and another, a vol. of drawings and prints of costumes etc., 8vo (2).

Includes two sojourns on Belle Isle, the largest and only inhabited island on Lake Windermere. The island was the property of the Isabella Curwen who married John Wordsworth (1803-75), William Wordsworth's eldest son. Over thirty pages are devoted to life in the Lakes, "I rode to Rydal and called on the Lake Poet. Other people mentioned include John Wordsworth and his wife Isabella, the Swinburnes ?of Calgarth Hall, Count Osolinski of Keswick etc. Curwen also mentions the catastrophic flooding of the family mines in 1837 in which 27 men and boys were killed and which necessitated spending time at Workington Hall. As well as England the diary covers much travel in Europe, including: Antwerp, Honfleur, the Pyrenees, Spain, Hamburg, Altona, Limerick and Dublin.

Lot 175

Wordsworth, Lake District & elsewhere.- Curwen (Edward Stanley, brother-in-law of John Wordsworth, 1810-75) Diary, autograph manuscript, title and c. 280pp., slightly browned, original calf, slightly rubbed, 1835-38; and another, 8vo (2).  

Hammer Price: £1,700

Description

Wordsworth, Lake District & elsewhere.- Curwen (Edward Stanley, brother-in-law John Wordsworth, Lieutenant in the 14th Light Dragoon Guards, of Workington Hall, Cumberland, 1810-75) Diary, autograph manuscript, title and c. 280pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, ink stains through paper, original calf, slightly rubbed, gilt spine, rubbed, 30th November 1835 - 7th June 1838; and another, a vol. of drawings and prints of costumes etc., 8vo (2).

Includes two sojourns on Belle Isle, the largest and only inhabited island on Lake Windermere. The island was the property of the Isabella Curwen who married John Wordsworth (1803-75), William Wordsworth's eldest son. Over thirty pages are devoted to life in the Lakes, "I rode to Rydal and called on the Lake Poet. Other people mentioned include John Wordsworth and his wife Isabella, the Swinburnes ?of Calgarth Hall, Count Osolinski of Keswick etc. Curwen also mentions the catastrophic flooding of the family mines in 1837 in which 27 men and boys were killed and which necessitated spending time at Workington Hall. As well as England the diary covers much travel in Europe, including: Antwerp, Honfleur, the Pyrenees, Spain, Hamburg, Altona, Limerick and Dublin.

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