BIB_ID
417010
Accession number
MA 2204.31
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1811 May 3.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20 x 16.1 cm
Notes
No place of writing is given and there are no postmarks. Based on the contents and other letters from this same period addressed to different correspondents, it is most likely that Coleridge wrote this letter in London. 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).
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).
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
Confirming that he has received the money he was in need of and anxious about, and saying that the next time he sees Godwin, he will be able to discharge his debt; telling Godwin that he is just about to move to Hammersmith, though he expects to be at the Courier office in London every day; giving some preliminary thoughts about Godwin's Fables and asking if a copy could be left for him at 34, Southampton Buildings, for further perusal; sending him "heart-felt wishes, that your plans may succeed proportionate to your wants & wishes [...] that your Health may strengthen as your occasions for anxiety diminish ; & that Years may still be reserved for you, in which, with perfect ease of mind as to the Things without, you may be able to allow yourself to resume studies analogous to those, on which you have built up your name, & so have prepared for yourself that most chearing of all thoughts in old Age - 'I have lived to benefit both Man & Child' -."
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