ABSTRACT
More than three decades after the trip to Bootle, Wordsworth recalled its importance in the Fenwick note to The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets. Following a wide-ranging list of his various encounters with this river, his recollections close on a note of circumspection:
I have many affecting remembrances with this stream. These I forbear to mention, especially things that occurred on its banks during the latter part of that visit to the seaside of which the former part is detailed in my epistle to Sir George Beaumont. (32)
