Henry Crabb Robinson, [Rydal Mount], to Henry Thomas Lutwidge and Mrs Lutwidge, [no address], 5 January 1843.

     Mr Crabb Robinson will have great pleasure in waiting upon Captain & Mrs Lutwidge on Thursday the 12th, unless unknown to him Mrs Wordsworth should have made some engagement for him on that day, of which without case, he will immediately inform Mrs Lutwidge – for Mr Robinson considers himself as a mere dependant and appendix to his friends at the Mount

5th Jan: 1843/–

Text: WLL/1986.13.42, Wordsworth Trust and Museum, Grasmere.  Robinson closes his diary on 11 January 1843 with the following: ‘I dined at Mr Roughsedges. The party consisted of the Wordsworths, Quillinans, Lutwidges and the Miss Briggs! I need not say therefore whether more good things were spoken or eaten – However the dinner was excellent and the rubber of whist agreeable. Home late.’ Henry Thomas Lutwidge, (c. 1780-1861) was the nephew of Skeffington Ludwidge (1737-1814), an Admiral in the British Navy, 1805-14. Henry Thomas was a naval lieutenant who in 1802 spent three months in Winchester jail for accidentally killing a drunken seaman and ten years, 1804-14, as a French prisoner of war.