BIB_ID
402383
Accession number
MA 1581.25
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Keswick, 1803 August 13.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954..
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 40.6 x 27.9 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 2.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Dated simply as "Saturday night" however, date and place of writing inferred from Coleridge's previous letter to Beaumont (MA 1581.24) dated August 12, 1803, where he states "I shall settle this in the course of to-morrow, and by to-morrow's night post shall send you a large coarse sheet, containing the Leech-Gatherer, which Miss Wordsworth has copied out, and such of my own verses as appeared to please you."
Address panel with postmark and marked "Single Sheet" to Sir George Beaumont, Baronet / at the / Right Honorable Lord Lowther's / Lowther Hall / Penrith.
Dated "Saturday Night."
Original paper seal with wax.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Dated simply as "Saturday night" however, date and place of writing inferred from Coleridge's previous letter to Beaumont (MA 1581.24) dated August 12, 1803, where he states "I shall settle this in the course of to-morrow, and by to-morrow's night post shall send you a large coarse sheet, containing the Leech-Gatherer, which Miss Wordsworth has copied out, and such of my own verses as appeared to please you."
Address panel with postmark and marked "Single Sheet" to Sir George Beaumont, Baronet / at the / Right Honorable Lord Lowther's / Lowther Hall / Penrith.
Dated "Saturday Night."
Original paper seal with wax.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954..
Summary
Including a first draft of the poem "Resolution and independence," by William Wordsworth, but with differing stanzas, starting with "There was a roaring in the wind all night / The rain came heavily, & fell in floods; / But now the sun is rising calm and bright ..."; also including a draft of Dejection, an Ode (Imperfect) dated April 4, 1802, beginning with a quote from the "Ballad of Sir Pat. Spence"; following the final stanza of "Dejection", Coleridge writes that he is "...so weary of "this doleful Poem" that he will transcribe the rest in a separate sheet; adding that he has "...been very ill - & it is well for those about me, that in these visitations of the Stomach my Disgusts combine with myself & my own Compositions - not with others or the works of others;" saying that he has received the Applethwaite Writings from the Lawyer made over to William Wordsworth and that he has consulted Mr. Edmonson about "...the safety & propriety of my going into Scotland in an open Carriage. He is confident that he can relieve me by the use of Carminative Bitters - & that the Exercise &c will be highly beneficial;" concluding that the Wordsworths send their regards and affection and adding, in a postscript, John Fisher's opinion on reading Lord Lowther's circulatory Paper. John Fisher was Wordsworth's neighbor.
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