BIB_ID
416968
Accession number
MA 2204.26
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1808 April 22.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 19.5 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Coleridge lists the place of writing as "348, Strand," an address in London. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Coleridge does not date the letter. The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
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 / Juvenile Library / corner of Skinner's Street / Snow Hill."
Coleridge does not date the letter. The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
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 / Juvenile Library / corner of Skinner's Street / Snow Hill."
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
Mentioning his previous letter (cataloged as MA 2204.25) and saying that he had expected an answer; asking "Did I any way offend you? That I may have disgusted your Friend [John Philpot Curran], I should not be surprized to hear - or that I may unintentionally have injured you in his opinion by causing him to think more meanly of your Judgment, than he had been used to do;" saying that he regrets it if this is the case, "tho' even this may do you good by teaching you to be more chary of your panegyric on living Characters, than you are wont to be;" concluding "However, at present I only want to know whether you received the admission ticket from / S.T. Coleridge."
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