1846.
MY DEAR C----, 'The passage which you have been so kind as to comment upon in one of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," was altered several years ago by my pen, in a copy of my poems which I possess, but the correction was not printed till a place was given it in the last edition, printed last year, in one volume.

It there stands, "Their church reformed." Though for my own part, as I mentioned some time since in a letter I had occasion to write to the Bishop of -- --, I do not like the term _reformed_; if taken in its literal sense, as a _transformation_, it is very objectionable.
'Yours affectionately, 'W.

WORDSWORTH.' Further, on the Sonnets on 'Aspects of Christianity in America,' Wordsworth wrote to his valued friend, Professor Reed of Philadelphia, as follows: 'A few days ago, after a very long interval, I returned to poetical composition; and my first employment was to write a couple of sonnets upon subjects recommended by you to take place in the Ecclesiastical Series.

They are upon the Marriage Ceremony and the Funeral Service.

I have also, at the same time, added two others, one upon Visiting the Sick, and the other upon the Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, both subjects taken from the Services of our Liturgy.