Henry Crabb Robinson, Rydal Mount, to Mrs Thomas Arnold, [Grasmere], 21 August [18]50. 

Rydal

21st Augst 50

My dear Madam

     I wish to leave in writing my acknowledgement of having received from you £5 for the Wordsworth Monument – Lady Farquhar too has desired me to receive from Mrs Nicholson the £5 she had given not knowing precisely whether it was for the national or local testimonial

                     most truly your’s      

H. C. Robinson

Mrs Arnold

Text: WLL/1994.64.24, Wordsworth Trust and Museum, Grasmere.