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WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Autograph letter signed ("Wm Wordsworth") to Frederick William Faber (clergyman, religious author, and poet), Rydal Mount, 10 September [18]44, 2 pages, 8vo, on pale gray paper, strip of mounting paper at edge of verso of integral second leaf : "You will think me a strange creature for not having yet read your Poem [probably Sir Lancelot , 1844]. In fact I have for some weeks been almost hurried out of my life by company & moving about; and also greatly untuned by disappointment respecting the House which I intended to build for Miss I[sabella] Fenwick; and till that business is settled one way or the other it would be quite unfair to your Poetry or any one's else to meddle with it. I have to thank you also for your little book of the lives of English Saints. I have read enough of this to be assured that the whole will interest me though I cannot go your lengths...I ought not to omit that last Friday & Saturday I was on the banks of the Duddon, with Miss Fletcher -- an engagement of two years standing. What a bewitching Vale it is!"; Letter signed ("Wm Wordworth," the text in the hand of Mrs. Wordsworth) to I. Newton Lane in Litchfield, Rydal Mount, 14 December n.y., 3 pages 4to, integral address leaf (with seal tear touching a letter) with wax seal intact, postmarked "Kenda Penny Post. " A friendly social letter in which Wordsworth writes of his bad eyesight, a possible trip to Italy, a visit to the Lanes, mutual friends, etc.: "...Our Mountains, on the few sunny days we have had, have been very beautiful in their caps of snow. The hurricane which has been so much takled of in the Southern Counties -- has spared us. We have not lost a single tree, nor even a branch as far as I know..." Each letter with typed transcript. (Milne) (2)