Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London, to Sir George Beaumont, 1804 January 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Apologizing for not having written in the past three months due to illness; saying "I have thought more of you and relatively to you, than of any other person in the World, with the exception of Mr. T. Wedgwood / the state of whose Health and Spirits has had perhaps some share in my own most miserable condition of Body. I am heart-sick and almost stomach-sick of speaking, writing, and thinking about myself,- It is enough that I have been very, very ill; and have no chance of any succession of healthy Days while I remain in this Climate;" describing his symptoms at length and in detail; saying he left home on the 20th of December and "at length reached London, with the resolution of going either to Madeira, or to Catania in Sicily, if I can by any proper way arrange the means of so doing, without injury or distress to Mrs. Coleridge;" adding that Wordsworth had forced him to accept a loan of £100 and he will be asking his brothers for an additional £100; expressing his comfort in being a regular correspondent of Sir George and Lady Beaumont.