Marshall have permitted me to copy and print Dorothy Wordsworth's letters to Jane Pollard, Mr. Marshall's grandmother, which are in Mr. Marshall's possession. Mr. Wordsworth has also given me permission to print hitherto unpublished letters and parts of letters from his grandfather, which are now in the British Museum and Dr. Williams's Library. To Professor Knight and Messrs. Ginn and Co. I am indebted for permission to quote extensively from "Letters of the Wordsworth Family." Professor Knight's edition of Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals has also been of assistance. I am very grateful to Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, not only for permission to quote from his invaluable edition of his grandfather's letters and from "Anima Poeta," but for some precious personal reminiscences and family traditions. Mr. E. V. Lucas has kindly consented to my quoting from letters in his noble edition of the " Works of Charles and Mary Lamb." To the most accurate of Wordsworthians, Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, editor of the Oxford "Wordsworth," I wish to express my homage for his self-sacrificing work and my thanks for his assistance in several difficulties. It gives me great pleasure to express my gratitude to Miss Arnold of Fox How, and Mrs. Tyson of Rydal, for personal recollections and items of local interest; to the late Henry J. Roby of Lancrigg, who honoured me with his encouragement; to Dr. Elmer Johnson, of Wolfenbüttel, and my friend the Rev. Ambrose W. Vernon, of Brookline, Massachusetts, who at my request made difficult researches at Goslar; to M. A. Trouëssart and M. P. Dufay of Blois, and the librarian of Orleans; to Professor George Herbert Palmer, of Harvard, who lent me several extremely valuable first editions of Wordsworth and Coleridge; to Professor Lane Cooper of Cornell; to the staff of the Princeton University Library, and a former member of that staff, Professor W. H. Clemons, of the University of Nanking; to Professor Arthur Lovejoy, of the Johns Hopkins University; to Mr. Herford, of Dr. Williams's Library,

London, for assistance in consulting the Crabb Robinson manuscripts; and to Miss Mary White, for permitting me to read the correspondence on Wordsworth between Mr. Thomas Hutchinson and her father, the late W. Hale White. A portion of the passage on Rousseau, Godwin, and Wordsworth originally appeared as an article in The Atlantic Monthly, and some of the matter about Wordsworth at Blois I contributed in the first instance to the New York Nation.

G. M. H.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,

July 9, 1915.