BIB_ID
402386
Accession number
MA 1581.30
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, 1804 March 5.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 20.2 x 16 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday afternoon."
The signature and four lines of the letter have been cut away.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 7.
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).
Address panel with postmark and fragments of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
The signature and four lines of the letter have been cut away.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 7.
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).
Address panel with postmark and fragments of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Telling her that he received four letters from Dunmow in the last hour, delivered by Mr. Lamb, who has been ill; saying that he too was ill and thought that he didn't receive any letters upset him so greatly "...that I was incapable of opening either, for nearly three quarters of an hour / & there still remains one from your Ladyship unopened - and this I literally am as much afraid of, as a child of a dark room;" assuring her that he "...will send the acid with the directions by tomorrow's Coach / and that I will devote the very first genial Half-hour, that I am favored with, to the attempt to translate into measured words the feelings of your Heart.-;" discussing how he doesn't think the ship will be ready for Malta before the 10th; adding that he is glad "Christabel & some other verses... are in your possession : the thought, that you and Sir George will at times talk of the poem by your fire side, or in your summer evening walks, & sometimes wish for it's conclusion, will be one and a strong inducement to me, to finish it;" adding that he will call on Mr. Knight tomorrow morning; stating that he has "...been advised by a very eminent Physician to try a very small drop of nitric acid...placed on the tumour by the point of a fine pen twice a day;" adding, in a postscript, that he fears he "can not get the acid prepared & sent to the Coach by tomorrow : if it be possible, it shall be done / but at latest, on the next Coach day. - Davy lectures to night : & I cannot see him till tomorrow."
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