BIB_ID
416472
Accession number
MA 2204.10
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Keswick, England, 1801 March 7.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 19.4 x 12.1 cm
Notes
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 / Polygon / Sommers Town / London."
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Godwin / Polygon / Sommers Town / London."
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
Writing that he has "puzzled my brains to no purpose to find a plausible conjecture, why you have not written to me;" adding "If I had in any way offended you, your simple & direct habits would have impelled you to write ; and if you have been employed, I should have thought, it would have been some Cheering of Toil to have set a friend at a distance a sympathizing with you;" concluding the letter "Do write -- if it be only half a dozen lines."
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