BIB_ID
402393
Accession number
MA 1581.36
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, not before 1809.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 39.4 x 24.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "Sir George Beaumont, Bart / Dunmow / Essex" and marked "Single Sheet."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 13.
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).
"Composed for the greater part on the same night after finishing of his recitation of the poem in thirteen books, on the growth of his own mind."
"Annex, as an illustrative note, the descriptive passage in Latyrane's first letter, 'The Friend,' p. 220, l. 13, 'A beautiful white cloud of foam,' etc."--Below last stanza.
Date derived from content of the note below last stanza. "The friend" was printed in November 1809.
"Verses of Coleridge on hearing the Recluse"--In Coleridge's hand on address panel.
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 13.
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).
"Composed for the greater part on the same night after finishing of his recitation of the poem in thirteen books, on the growth of his own mind."
"Annex, as an illustrative note, the descriptive passage in Latyrane's first letter, 'The Friend,' p. 220, l. 13, 'A beautiful white cloud of foam,' etc."--Below last stanza.
Date derived from content of the note below last stanza. "The friend" was printed in November 1809.
"Verses of Coleridge on hearing the Recluse"--In Coleridge's hand on address panel.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Fair copy in the hand of Sara Hutchinson of the poem "To William Wordsworth" by Coleridge sent to Sir George Beaumont dated January 1807.
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