The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

APPENDIX.

NOTE A.

(See p. 1.)

The J. Q. referred to in the Fenwick Note to the Lines suggested by a Portrait from the pencil of F. Stone, was Miss Jemima Quillinan, the eldest daughter of Mr Edward Quillinan, Wordsworth's future son-inlaw. This portrait is now, and has been for many years, in Miss Quillinan's house, Loughrigg Holme. It was taken when she was a

school girl, while her father resided at Oporto.

NOTE B.

(See p. 33.)

Sarah Hutchinson-Mrs Wordsworth's sister-died at Rydal on the 23rd June 1836. It was after her that the poet named one of the two "heath-clad rocks" referred to in the "Poems on the naming of Places," and which he called respectively "Mary-Point" and "Sarah-Point." In 1827 he inscribed to her the sonnet beginning

"Excuse is needless when with love sincere," and the lines she wrote To a Redbreast, beginning"Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay,"

were published among Wordsworth's own poems. The sonnet written in 1806, beginning

"Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne,"

was, Wordsworth tells us, a great favourite with his sister-in-law. He adds, "when I saw her lying in death I could not resist the impulse to compose the sonnet that follows it." (See Vol. IV. p. 41.)

In a letter to Southey (unpublished), Wordsworth refers to her death, and adds—“I saw her within an hour after her decease, in the silence and peace of death, with as heavenly an expression on her countenance as ever human creature had. Surely there is food for faith in these appearances: for myself, I can say that I have passed a wakeful night, more in joy than in sorrow, with that blessed face before my eyes perpetually as I lay in bed."

NOTE C.

(See p. 36.)

The following is the Itinerary of the Italian Tour of 1837, supplied by Mr Henry Crabb Robinson. (See Memoirs of Wordsworth, Vol. II. p. 316.) The spelling of the names of places is Robinson's.