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Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, place not specified, to Joseph Cottle, 1809 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
211762
Accession number
MA 3682
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1809.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1973.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.6 x 16.5 cm
Notes
The letter is simply dated "Sunday afternoon," but other correspondence late in 1809 also refers to the specific requests Coleridge is making in this letter. In a letter to John Brown from Grasmere, dated December 4, 1809, Coleridge asks Brown if it would be acceptable to him if he asked Pennington to reprint several numbers. John Brown was a bookseller in Penrith.
Coleridge does not identify Cottle by name but in his closing asks to be remembered to "Mrs. C." Coleridge does not indicate the place of writing but other letters written at this time were all written from Grasmere.
This letter is not published in the Collected Letters of Coleridge edited by Earl Leslie Griggs.
Summary
Concerning the reprinting of The Friend; saying "Will you be so good as to ask Mr. Pennington whether he will reprint for me six or 8 numbers of The Friend - 120 of each number. I really ask it of him as a favour - It is of so much importance that a Volume should be ready by the 26th No. - and Brown cannot do more than 4 or 5 - since the 13th there have been 120 taken off on unstamped Paper. I have no doubt that the Paper, Mr. P. sent will answer for my Poems - I send it to Longman & shall receive an answer in a Day or two. The paper for the Friend, Brown will send to Mr. P. that the work may be uniform. I give 56 shillings a ream for it unstamped - & yet I hear every where, alike from Reader & Printer, complaints of its vile quality - indeed, it seems to myself all either parchment or rag - always in extremes. Will you ask Mr. P.'s opinion whether Fourdrinier uses me well. Hartley is waiting - so I must conclude this scrawl with the kindest remembrances to Mrs. C. and blessings on you and all yours;" adding, in a postscript, "William is not yet arrived."