Flora in Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal

21 July 2017
Today I had the opportunity to look through the Wordsworths’ copy of A Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain by William Withering. The four volumes contain several inscriptions written by Dorothy and several specimens of ferns, mosses, and flowers, preserved between the pages. I also has the opportunity to look through a book described as “A Book of Mosses gathered by Miss Hutchinson and Emmeline Fisher at Rydal Mount in 1841, the book having been presented to them for the purpose by the Poet. The names of the Mosses, are for the most part written by Mr. Herbert Hill who married Bertha Southey.” The book contained, mosses, ferns, and flowers, and ended with a poem by Emmeline Fisher, the Wordsworth’s niece.

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