[B] See the Appendix to this volume, Note A, p. 391.—ED.
[C] "Sarah went to Kendal on our mother's death, but Mr. P. died in the course of a year or two.—M. W." Pencilled on the opposite page of the MS.—ED.
[D] See The Excursion, book ix. l. 614.—ED.
[E] Alas! no longer as they were in Wordsworth's time. See the note to Yew-Trees, vol. ii. p. 371.—ED.
[F] "Mr. Pearson." Pencilled on the opposite page of the MS.—ED.
[G] Pencilled on the opposite page of the MS.—"This boathouse, badly built, gave way, and was rebuilt. It again tumbled, and was a third time reconstructed, but in a better fashion than before. It is not now, per se, an ugly building, however obtrusive it may be."—ED.
[H] Compare the sonnet Malham Cove in volume vi., to which these lines belong.—ED.
[I] The following note from Wordsworth to Mr. Dyce, shews his estimation of the text of the first octavo edition, as compared with that of the earlier quarto edition.
"MY DEAR SIR,—When you read The Excursion do not read the quarto. It is improved in the 8vo E.:—but I thought the quarto might have its value with you as a collector.—Believe me, faithfully yours,
"W. WORDSWORTH."
7th April, my birthday—61,
12 Bryanston Street.