BIB_ID
286698
Accession number
MA 642.16
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
1826 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Also dated "Saturday morning."
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
Telling Edward that he sent his letter about Henry Gillman to Mr. and Mrs. Gillman; reporting on Mr. Gillman's response to the news that his son has been expelled from Eton; describing Mrs. Gillman's schemes for her son and her pain at having her hopes for him dashed.
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