P. 255, l. 31.  ‘History of Cleveland.’  The book is by the Rev. John Graves, and is entitled ’The History of Cleveland in the North Riding of the County of York.’  Carlisle, 1808.  Wordsworth is unjust:  it is a deserving work, if o’ times inevitably dry.

P. 285, l.1.  ‘Francis Edgeworth’s “Dramatic Fragment."’ This was Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, half-brother of Maria Edgeworth.

P. 285, ll. 29-30.  ‘Spectator.’  From No. 46, April 23, 1711, one of Addison’s own charming papers in his lighter vein of raillery.

P. 280, ll. 13-16.  ‘Mr. Page;’ viz.  Frederick Page, author of (a) ’The Principle of the English Poor Laws illustrated and defended by an Historical View of Indigence in Civil Society.’  Bath, 1822. (b) ’Observations on the State of the Indigent Poor in Ireland, and the existing Institutions for their Relief.’  London, 1830.

P. 290, ll. 25-27.  Verse-quotation, from Milton, ‘Paradise Regained,’ b. iii. ll. 337-9.

P. 293, l. 1.  Letter to Hamilton.  The Rev. R.P.  Graves, M.A.—­Wordsworth’s friend—­is engaged in preparing a Life of this preeminent mathematician and many-gifted man of genius, than whom there seems to have been no contemporary who so deeply impressed Wordsworth intellectually, or so won his heart.  The ‘Poems’ of Miss Hamilton (1 vol. 1838) sparkle with beauties, often unexpected as the flash of gems.  Space can only be found for one slight specimen of her gift in ’Lines written in Miss Dora Wordsworth’s Album,’ as follows: 

    ’It is not now that I can speak, while still
        Thy lakes, thy hills, thyself are in my sight;
    I would be quiet—­for the thoughts that fill
        My spirit’s urn are a confused delight;
    They must have time to settle to the clear
        Untroubled calm of memory, ere they show,
    True as the water-depths around thee here,
        These images, that then will come and go,
    An everlasting joy.  Far, far away
        As life, extends the shadow of to-day;
    And keenlier present from the past will come
        Thy sweet laugh’s freshness pure, with all the poet’s home.

‘Rydal Mount. 1830.’

‘The Boys’ School’ is the title of Miss Hamilton’s poem referred to by Wordsworth.  It occurs in the volume, pp. 126-131.  Her brother’s was one commencing, ‘It haunts me yet.’  The ‘Mr. Nimmo’ of this letter was a civil engineer connected with the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

P. 299, l. 18; 300, l. 8, &c.  ‘Countess of Winchelsea.’  Sad to say, a collection of this remarkable English gentlewoman’s Poems remains still an unfurnished desideratum.

P. 306, l. 11.  ‘The Duchess of Newcastle.’  Edward Jenkins, Esq.  M.P., has recently collected some of the Poems of this lady and her lord in a pretty little volume, which he entitles, ‘The Cavalier and the Lady.’

P. 312, l. 32.  ’Eschylus and the eagle.  ’The reference doubtless is to Aeschylus’ ‘Prometheus Vinctus,’ l. 1042: