BIB_ID
286642
Accession number
MA 642.4
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
[1825 May 19].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Part of a collection of 16 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his nephew, Edward Coleridge, a Master at Eton. Letters are described in 16 individual records (MA 642.1-16).
With postmark and seal.
Part of a collection of 16 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his nephew, Edward Coleridge, a Master at Eton. Letters are described in 16 individual records (MA 642.1-16).
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from Agnew.
Summary
Expressing a feeling of regret that his "lot in life has hitherto so much estranged" him from his nephews and nieces; noting that his book [Aids to reflection] is about to come out and he hopes to present a copy to the Bishop of London; asking what parts of Ovid's works are read at Eton because he wants to teach Latin verse to Henry [Gillman?].
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