Note 1 — PREFATORY NOTE.
Reading edition
In view of the number of contributions made by Wordsworth to The Morning Post (among which The Convict, which brightened its pages on December 14th, 1797, is by far the most important) it is curious to recall the following statement which occurs in a letter addressed by him to Daniel Stuart:—
“I am quite certain that nothing of mine ever appeared in ‘The Morning Post,’ except a very, very few sonnets upon political subjects, and one poem called ‘The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale,’ but whether this appeared in ‘The Morning Post’ or ‘The Courier,’ I do not remember.” [The poem cited did appear in The Morning Post on July 21st, 1800.]