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‘Glad you’ve seen Winter’s Wreath.’
‘I flatter myself the Volume [Hartley’s 1833 Poems] has sold tol lol. Dora [Wordsworth] finds great fault with its shape: a fault chargeable solely on my own bad taste for it was my selection, and I cannot, for the soul of me, see any thing the matter with me. Howsomever [sic], I succumb to Lady-judgements and will do better when next I have the opportunity.’
‘I dined yesterday at Rydal Mount ... Poor Mr. Wordsworth is all but blind. He bears his affliction with wonderful cheerfulness. I read to him my own Life of Roger Ascham all the afternoon. I will often go and read to him.’