Iprotwbings attljc Annual gtceting at ^inbksiiDe, i88^ 



The Annual Meeting of the Association was held this year at Ambleside, 

 on Thursday and Friday, the 24th and 25th of May. 



The Proceedings were opened on Thursday, at noon, in the Lecture 

 Hall, by an Address from the President, Mr. Robert Ferguson, M.P., on 

 "The Place Names of Cumberland and Westmorland." A fairly large 

 number of members, representing the local Societies of Cumberland and 

 Westmorland, being present. 



After Luncheon at the Salutation Hotel, the Annual General Meeting 

 of the Association was held in the Lecture Hall, the President in the chair. 

 The Reports of the affiliated Societies having been read by the Association 

 Secretary, Mr. R. S. Ferguson was unanimously chosen President for the 

 ensuing year: Mr. Goodchild was re-appointed Editor of the Transactions ; 

 and Mr. Robert Crowder, Secretary and Treasurer, in place of Mr. 

 Kendall, who, through pressure of other work, felt compelled to resign. 

 Hearty votes of thanks having been passed to the retiring President and 

 Secretary, and Penrith having been selected as the place of the Annual 

 Meeting of 1884, the members drove to Rydal Mount, the home of Words- 

 worth, which, through the kindness of Mr. Jlobert Crewdson, was thrown 

 open to the party. Under the guidance of the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, the 

 room was inspected where Wordsworth's portrait by Pickersgill (kindly 

 lent by Miss Quillinan for the occasion, ) was hung, and the old teapot that 

 once belonged to him, and the carved cupboard brought by him from 

 Cockermouth, pointed out. The lovely grounds, then in their full Spring 

 beauty, the Nab Well, and the terrace where the poet so often walked, were 

 next visited ; after which the party, walking through the grounds of Rydal 

 Hall, the beautifully situated seat of Mr. Le Fleming, descended to the 

 well known waterfall, and heard with pleasure the lines in which the poet 

 accurately described the fall as it was in his day, and is to-day — 



With its bridge 

 Half grey, half ulad with ivy to its ridge. 



The party then drove along the shore of Rydal Water, passing Nab Cottage, 

 once the home of Hartley Coleridge and De Quincey ; walked over the old 

 carriage road to Grasmere, past the famous "Wishing Gate" to "Town 

 End," where the poet lived before his marriage, where he first met 

 De Quincey, and to which he brought home his bi-ide. After looking over 



