BIB_ID
211884
Accession number
MA 77.1-20
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1796-1818.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
20 items (66 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Three letters in the collection (MA 77.2, 77.5, and 77.7) are housed separately in Unbound Oversize Coleridge. The letters written by John Thelwall and Peter Crompton are housed under the names of their authors, not under "Coleridge."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904. Removed from a bound volume in June 1967.
Summary
Being a collection of fifteen letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Thelwall, one letter from Coleridge to Susannah (called "Stella") Thelwall, two letters from John Thelwall to Susannah Thelwall, one letter from Peter Crompton to John Thelwall, and one incomplete draft of an article on the death of Queen Charlotte. The letters were written from 1796 to 1803, and the draft may have been written in 1818. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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