¹ See G. McL. Harper, William Wordsworth (New York, 1916), passim. E. C. Batho, The Later Wordsworth (New York, 1933), Appendix C, “The Settlement on Caroline Baudouin, ”pp. 390–395. E. Legouis, William Wordsworth and Annette Vallon (London, 1922).

² The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. The Middle Years, ed. E. De Selincourt (Oxford, 1937), ii, 600. Batho, as above.

³ Something of this visit is mentioned in D. W.'s letter to Mrs. Clarkson, 16 October, 1817, first published in 1937: “Southey returned from the Continent in great spirits… . Southey saw Caroline and her Mother Husband and Daughter Dorothée and was very much pleased with them—He says the Babe is a lovely Child, the Mother very interesting and the image of John Wordsworth—and something like Dorothy; and the Husband a fine man—sensible and animated and very fond of his wife and child. ”Letters, eA. cit., ii, 801.

⁴ This letter is reproduced through the courtesy of its owner, Southey's great-granddaughter, Mrs. F. F. Boult.