_The Grove: Captain John Wordsworth_.
John Wordsworth left Grasmere on Michaelmas-day, 1800, walking over by Grisedale Tarn to Paterdale, whence he would proceed to Penrith; he took leave of his brother William, near the Tarn, where Ullswater first comes in view; and he went to sea again, in the Abergavenny East-Indiaman, in the spring of 1801.
After his departure from Grasmere, the Poet discovered a track which had been worn by his brother's steps 'pacing there unwearied and alone,' during the winter weather, in a sheltering fir-grove above the cottage, and henceforth _that_ fir-grove was known to the Poet's household by the name of 'John's Grove,' or 'Brother's Grove.' Of this Wordsworth writes: '_When to the attractions of the busy world_,' 1805.--'The grove still exists, but the plantation has been walled in, and is not so accessible as when my brother John wore the path in the manner described.

The grove was a favourite haunt with us all while we lived at Town-End.'[50] 28.

_Spenser and Milton_.
Captain Wordsworth returned from the voyage on which he sailed in 1801; and in November 1802, he writes for directions what books to buy to carry with him on a voyage of sixteen months....
[50] _Memoirs_, i.

282.
'Tell John' says Wordsworth, 'when he buys Spenser, to purchase an edition which has his "State of Ireland" in it.

This is in prose.