Addressed to Lady Beaumont, Grosvenor Square, London.
Stamped "APR 25 1808" and "Keswick".
Residual wax.
Watermark: indistinguishable.
Part of the Coleorton Papers; see collection-level record for more information.
Replying to Lady Beaumont that they received her letter this morning enclosing half of a five pound note; giving an account of the orphans being put under the care of respectable people and giving details on specific cases; saying that she went in lieu of her sister's absence who was with a sick John; transcribing a poem by William a few days after his return, which he started writing in a churchyard while looking at a husband's and wife's graves, beginning with "Who weeps for strangers? Many wept" and ending with "That may not be untied!"; (On Coleridge) expressing that he is a "wonderful creature, pouring out such treasures of thought and knowledge, without premeditation and in a language so eloquent"; stating that the poem is to be published and that "Longman has consented, in spite of the opium under which my brother labours as a poet, to give him one hundred guineas per thousand copies, according to the demand"; (postscript) requesting that if she has the key to the manuscript to give it to Coleridge who will enclose it since they are quite distressed about it and William keeps asking about it and does not want to break the lock.