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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Resolution And Independence

Wordsworth's sister Dorothy records in her Journal the meeting that she
and her brother had with the old leech-gatherer who is the subject of this
poem. That entry is from 3 October 1800. Among the characteristics she names
are the following: "an old man almost double"; "he carried a bundle"; "His
face was interesting. He had dark eyes and a long nose"; "He was of Scotch
parents, but had been born in the army"; his wife had borne him ten children,
all of which were dead now except one who was a sailor; "His trade was to
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