BIB_ID
402403
Accession number
MA 1581.46
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1826 March 18.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Coleridge has dated the letter "Saturday, 1/2 after 11." The published letter cited below dates it to 18 March 1826 and states "This letter was written after Letter 1524 (MA 1581.45) was posted."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 22.
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 fragments of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / South Audley Street / Grosvenor Square."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 22.
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 fragments of a seal to "Lady Beaumont / South Audley Street / Grosvenor Square."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Relating the misadventures of his messenger who lost a letter, with enclosures, as he was returning from George Frere's in Hampstead; concluding that he will now find a new messenger "...to dispatch this note, & with a note & the Card to Mr. Frere at Lady Orde's; sending his regards to Sir George.
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