76-94) The following is an extract from a letter of Dorothy Wordsworth's to Lady Beaumont at Coleorton, dated "14th August," probably in 1808: "We reached Cambridge at half-past nine.

In our way to the Inn we stopped at the gate of St.John's College to set down one of our passengers.

The stopping of the carriage roused me from a sleepy musing, and I was awe-stricken with the solemnity of the old gateway, and the light from a great distance within streaming along the pavement.

When they told me it was the entrance to 'St.John's' College, I was still more affected by the gloomy yet beautiful sight before me, for I thought of my dearest brother in his youthful days passing through that gateway to his home, and I could have believed that I saw him there even then, as I had seen him in the first year of his residence.

I met with Mr.Clarkson at the Inn, and was, you may believe, rejoiced to hear his voice at the coach door.