BIB_ID
402392
Accession number
MA 1581.35
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Malta, 1804 August 1.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.6 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 12.
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 fragment of a seal and postmarks "For England / Sir G. Beaumont, Bart / Dunmow / Essex."
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 fragment of a seal and postmarks "For England / Sir G. Beaumont, Bart / Dunmow / Essex."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Relating news of his travels; saying he has found someone who will expedite to them "...a series of Letters...containing my few very few adventures, & my topographical & political Information;" saying that he is going to Syracuse, Catania, Etna, Messina, and maybe Naples and then return to Syracuse for six weeks and then back to Malta for the winter; saying "I am as comfortable here as a man can be : & as happy as I can be absent from England, and from all that make England so dear to me;" describing where he is living and the generosity and kindness of Sir Alexander Ball, the Governor; giving details about the weather and saying how is health is better and that he has gained strength; adding, in a postscript, that he arrived on the 18th of May and that since his arrival there have been three rain storms and "...an earthquake or two;"
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