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MS untraced; text is taken from William Knight (ed.), Memorials of Coleorton, 2 vols (London, 1887) . Previously published: William Knight (ed.), Memorials of Coleorton: Being Letters from Coleridge, Wordsworth and his Sister, Southey, and Sir Walter Scott to Sir George and Lady Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1803 to 1834, 2 vols (London, 1887), II, pp. 188–190.
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I am indeed gratified by your offer of becoming one of the sponsors
to this
infant, and truly proud should I have been to have received
so kind a mark of friendship, if it could have been so. But Grosvenor Bedford requested
some months ago that if the child should prove a boy, he might hold the same relation
to it which he had done to his dear
brother, and that same feeling induced me, as soon as he
was born, to desire that Charles W.
Wynn would do the same. I mean to call him Cuthbert; you who know Wordsworth’s poems so well
will understand why.
He was born in the study, and when he opened his eyes, I would say,
if wishes could influence the course of his life, what he was born to was before him.
You will wonder how this should have happened. The high winds about Christmas gave an
ugly shake to a high chimney which, if it were to receive such another airquake, might probably make its way through the roof into our
bedroom. The masons cannot pull it down and rebuild it while there is any chance of
frost; they patched it as well as they could, but lest we should both be killed, or
one of us frightened to death, it was necessary that we should shift our quarters,
and as no other apartment in the house would afford the needful accommodation, my
study was converted into my
lady’s chamber, and I have taken up my abode in what was
formerly Coleridge’s, but now goes by the name of All Saints’ Room, in honour
of my delectable folios.
The places which I am very desirous you should see in Switzerland are
luckily of the easiest access, partly by water, partly by the carriages of the
country. Protestant Switzerland has probably suffered less in the general dislocation
of principles and morals than any other part of Europe; still, it has suffered much.
This I learnt from some ministers in the Pays de Vaud.
I have heard of the Peasant of Auburn.
My visit to London will take place at the end of April. By that time
the last volume of Brazil will be published,Wesley
Mother and
daughters