Wordsworth, Christopher

Hannah More to Marianne Sykes Thornton, November or December 1809

We have been much amused with the Life of Wolsey, published in the Collection of Wordsworth, but the Ecclesiastical Biographer.7 Tis as amusing as a Novel; we finished by reading the Tragedy of Henry the 8th. – Surely must have /seen/ this Life of Wolsey written by his .8 - By the way – among the petty exercises of patience in children I shoud put them to read old English, black letter, and bad hand writings.