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HOUG/DD/44/1
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Letter from John Peace to the Wordsworth Memorial Committee
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- 8 Jul. 1850 (Creation)
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Printed with MS autograph, 2ff.
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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'.
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- Peace, John (1785-1861), librarian (Subject)
- Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), poet (Subject)