WORDSWORTH'S BIRTHPLACE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—As there is a real danger of Wordsworth's birthplace at Cockermouth being demolished and its site used for a ' bus station would you be so good as to allow us to request through your columns that all admirers of the poet should subscribe without delay to the Wordsworth National Memorial Fund ?
This fund was opened five months ago to raise £2,000 to buy and recondition the birthplace and hand it over to the National Trust as a public memorial, and up to the present L600 has been received. We fear that if we do not raise the balance of £1,400 soon the house may be purchased and destroyed. Subscriptions may be sent to the treasurer, the Rev. R. W. Crook, All Saints Vicarage, Cockermouth, Cumberland, or through the Midland Bank.—Yours truly,
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