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City Library, Bristol. - Wordsworth had asked him to find a copy of Gilbert's Hurricane for Milnes; now sends one on Wordsworth's behalf which came to Peace by chance; has inserted own book ticket showing a room know to Gilbert and Wordsworth.

Printed notepaper, City Library, Bristol. - Urges adoption of second proposal in Wordsworth Memorial Committee's Resolution; it would be a 'peculiar and condign tribute in the region which he has almost sanctified' to commemorate Wordsworth in a Lakeland mountain sculpture of the type suggested for Alexander by the ancient Greek sculptor-poet Dinocrates. Sir Francis Chantrey 'had a strong desire to become proprietor of a mountain' for this purpose'.