BIB_ID
416412
Accession number
MA 2204.1
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1800 January 8.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20.4 x 13 cm
Notes
Coleridge does not list a place of writing, but based on the contents, it is most likely that the letter was written in London, where Coleridge was living during this period. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
This collection, MA 2204, is comprised of 41 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, written between 1800 and 1823. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 2204.1-41).
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Godwin / The Polygon / Sommers' Town."
This collection, MA 2204, is comprised of 41 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, written between 1800 and 1823. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 2204.1-41).
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Godwin / The Polygon / Sommers' Town."
Provenance
Purchased, via the London dealer Constance A. Kyrle Fletcher, from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, in 1962 as a gift of the Fellows.
Summary
Saying that he is occupied with business on Thursday and Friday (the letter is dated "Wednesday Morning), but "on Saturday Evening I shall be perfectly at leisure, and shall calender an Evening spent with you on so interesting a subject among my Noctes Atticæ;" asking Godwin to propose another day if Saturday does not suit him; writing in a postscript about the switch to the new century: "How many Thousand Letter-writers will in the first fortnight of this month write a 7 first, & then transmogrify it into an 8 - in the dates of their Letters! I like to catch myself doing that which involves any identity of the human Race. Hence I like to talk of the Weather - & in the Fall never omit observing - How short the Days grow! How the Days shorten! &c. Yet even that would fall, a melancholy phrase indeed on the heart of a Blind Man!"
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