Wordsworth, William, (1770-1850), poet

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Surname:	Wordsworth
Forenames:	William
Gender:	Male
Date:	1770-1850
Biography:	ODNB link for Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Poet
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P129229 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P31227 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Wordsworth

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp, literary MSS and papers	Wordsworth Trust		See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
2	corresp and papers (1569 items)	Cornell University Libraries		See NUC MS 64-957
3	1795-1848: corresp and papers (c175 items)	Huntington Library		See NUC MS 62-371
4	papers	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library		See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA, 1961
5	1801-50: letters and MSS	Harvard University: Houghton Library		NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
6	1801-49: letters	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 10256, 10279, 10306, 10324	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
7	manuscripts	Keats House		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
8	misc manuscripts	Keswick Museum and Art Gallery		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
9	poems	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 47864; RP145	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
10	1806-1975: letters to and from Wordsworth; letters from Mary and Dora Wordsworth; sonnets and miscellaneous items	Cambridge University: St John's College Library	Wordsworth
11	1838-49: letters to Sir John Taylor Coleridge	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 47553	NRA 20966
12	1797-1824: letters to Joseph Cottle (6) and WS Landor (3)	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	Forster Collection	NRA 38887 Forster
13	1828-44: corresp with Alexander Dyce (34 items)	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library	Dyce 26 D 14, E 4-5	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
14	letters (extracts) to Barron Field	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 41325
15	1838-44: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 44356-527
16	1827-33: corresp with Sir William Hamilton (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP307	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
17	letters to Hook family, MS poem, also letter from Southey (1822)	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	R1-5	NRA 302 Hook
18	1831-42: letters to JG Lockhart	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 931-35
19	1806-35: letters (182) to the Earl of Lonsdale and Lord Lowther	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D LONS/L	NRA 17777 Lowther
20	1791-96: letters to William Mathews	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46136	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
21	1798-1815: letters to Thomas Poole	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 35344	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
22	1830-42: letters to Edward Quillinan	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Ashley MSS 4641, A 4642	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
23	1808-48: letters to Samuel Rogers	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	SHARPE	NRA 20377 Rogers
24	1803-31: letters (20) to Sir Walter Scott	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3874-3919	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
25	corresp with John Spedding	Mirehouse		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
26	1836: letters to Lord Stanhope	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/C367	NRA 25095
27	1801-38: letters (18) to Daniel Stuart	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 34046
28	1823-46: letters to Sir Henry Taylor	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett c 1
29	1826-42: letters to his brother Christopher and nephew John	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46136	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
30	letters (48) from Wordsworth and his sister	The Morgan Library		See `Book Collector', V (1956), p7
31	corresp (96 items)	Indiana University: Lilly Library	Wordsworth mss	See information from website
32	1771: music book	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 54194
33	1799-1847: literary ms, corresp	Princeton University Library	C1295

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Wordsworth, Dorothy, (1771-1855), author, poet and diarist	brother/sister		Family
2	Wordsworth, Mary, (1770-1859), amanuensis to William Wordsworth	spouse		Family