BIB_ID
286658
Accession number
MA 642.9
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
1825 Sept. 7.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
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 seal.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from Agnew.
Summary
Discussing some passages of writing he is sending to Edward Coleridge in the care of Henry Gillman; expressing his hope that Henry will be a better student this year; noting that he is going to "translate with comments ... Bacon's Novum Organum for Basil Montague's Splendid Edition"; noting that he expects to make no money from the "toils of my meditations": "Do what I would, I could not (to use Wesley's phrase) be shallow enough for a polite Public."
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