WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Autograph Letter Signed W Wordsworth to L

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Autograph Letter Signed, "W. Wordsworth," to Lady Holland, thanking her for raising money on behalf of the Grasmere orphans, giving instructions for the deposit of the money, remarking that the money will be of substantial service, and sending regards from himself and his sister. 2 pages, 8vo, with integral address leaf; minor scattered bleedthrough, folds. Grasmere, 20 June [1808]

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"I have just received your obliging Letter informing me of the Collection which by your means has been made for our Grasmere Orphans. . . . It will be a satisfaction to you to hear that we have raised as much money as we think we shall have occasion for, and that there is every prospect that it will be of substantial service to the Children. . . ."

Published in Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1806-1811, ed. De Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.