BIB_ID
311186
Accession number
MA 428.40
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
1831 Feb. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries; see collection-level record for more information.
Printed as "Inscription for a Time-Piece" with the first line "Now! It is gone -- Our brief hours travel post" and with significant variations from the poem as here written.
Printed as "Inscription for a Time-Piece" with the first line "Now! It is gone -- Our brief hours travel post" and with significant variations from the poem as here written.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Differing from the poem as printed. Followed by the opening of a letter to an unidentified recipient, regretting that he does not have better lines to send, noting that "Sickness, Sorrow and Senility have dried up my Helena."
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