BIB_ID
402390
Accession number
MA 1581.33
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, 1804 March 27.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragment of a seal to "Sir G. Beaumont."
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 10.
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).
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 10.
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).
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Expressing his sadness at leaving them; saying "I sate by the fire, a world of confused Images of Keswick, Dunmow, London passing before my very eyes, till the waters dropt from them & the walls of my Room brought me back to more serious, and deeper, o far deeper emotion. I knelt and prayed for you...If I did not in my heart's heart cherish you, and (abstracting that Hue of Respect to the difference of your Rank, which is with me a business not of Force or of Habit but of deliberate moral Election)... I should find in the consciousness of your affectionate & zealous Esteem of me a burthen which my Spirit could not support;" adding, in a postscript, that he is enclosing "Taylor's Letter - the fair Woman's Verses shall be sent to you."
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