BIB_ID
211758
Accession number
MA 2834
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Nether Stowey, England, 1797 September.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1973.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 20.2 x 15.8 cm
Notes
Docketed "S.T. Coleridge / Sep'r 1797."
Address panel to "Mr. Cottle / Bookseller."
The published letter, cited below, differs from this manuscript in that it contains some paragraphs and not others which suggests that Griggs was looking at the letter published by Cottle in "Early Recollections" as he would not have had access to this letter. The Morgan did not acquire this letter until 1973, two years after publication of Volume 6 of the Letters of S.T. Coleridge edited by Earl Leslie Griggs. The introductory note by Griggs suggests that "Cottle, therefore, has again combined passages from different letters." Griggs explains his dating of the letter to "Early August 1797" however the endorsement on this letter is September 1797.
Coleridge set off to see Bowles on September 6th.
A duplicate catalog record was created for this letter with an accession number of MA 3678. It was mistakenly identified as Griggs 205.
Address panel to "Mr. Cottle / Bookseller."
The published letter, cited below, differs from this manuscript in that it contains some paragraphs and not others which suggests that Griggs was looking at the letter published by Cottle in "Early Recollections" as he would not have had access to this letter. The Morgan did not acquire this letter until 1973, two years after publication of Volume 6 of the Letters of S.T. Coleridge edited by Earl Leslie Griggs. The introductory note by Griggs suggests that "Cottle, therefore, has again combined passages from different letters." Griggs explains his dating of the letter to "Early August 1797" however the endorsement on this letter is September 1797.
Coleridge set off to see Bowles on September 6th.
A duplicate catalog record was created for this letter with an accession number of MA 3678. It was mistakenly identified as Griggs 205.
Summary
Expressing his concern for Cottle's illness, relating news of mutual friends and making arrangements to receive a trunk for Thelwall; saying "Herbert Croft is in Exeter Goal - this is unlucky. - Poor Devil! he must now lie unpepper'd - I have waited anxiously for the two little volumes, which were to have been elegantly bound for my Brother - We are well - Miss Wordsworth has scalded her two feet. Wordsworth is well - Hartley sends a grin to you. - He has another Tooth. I thank you for the paper & pens - I shall now stick close to my Tragedy - & when I have finished it, shall walk to Shaftesbury & spend a few days with Bowles - from thence to Salisbury & thence to Christ Church - Thelwall has been with me these last eight days - Now for a piece of immediate business - Give my kind love to your Brother Robert, and ax him to put on his hat & run without delay to the Inn or Place by whatever bird, beast, fish or Man distinguished, where the Bath Waggons - Parsons! Waggon, sets up - In this waggon there was brought from Bath, in order to be forwarded to Bridgewater & Stowey, a Trunk directed / S.T. Coleridge / Stowey / near Bridgewater / This, we supposed arrived in Bristol on Tuesday or Wednesday, of last week - it belonged to Thelwall & if it be not forwarded to Stowey, let it be stopped - & not sent forward- for Thelwall is on his return to Bristol." .
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