W. Wordsworth.[164]
109. Death of his Nephew, John Wordsworth.
LETTER TO LADY FREDERICK BENTINCK.
Rydal Mount, Ambleside (not Kendal), Jan. 3 [1840].
MY DEAR LADY FREDERICK,
Yesterday brought us melancholy news in a letter from my brother, Dr. Wordsworth, which announced the death of his eldest son. He died last Tuesday, in Trinity College, of which he was a fellow, having been tenderly nursed by his father during rather a long illness. He was a most amiable man, and I have reason to believe was one of the best scholars in Europe. We were all strongly attached to him, and, as his poor father writes, the loss is to him, and to his sorrowing sons, irreparable on this side of the grave.
W. W.[165]
110. Of the Same.
LETTER TO THE REV. THE MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE.