BIB_ID
417017
Accession number
MA 2204.32
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1811 October 5.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.6 x 19.2 cm
Notes
Coleridge lists the place of writing as "Courier office." The offices of the Courier newspaper were located 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
Saying that he has not been at the Courier office for almost a week, as he has had to spend his mornings at Westminster Library, and has only just received Godwin's letter; accepting his invitation for next Tuesday; writing of how flattered he is at being deemed worthy to dine with both Henry Grattan and John Philpot Curran; adding that, by coincidence, he has been reading "the best documents, I could procure, of the Debates of the Irish Parliament from the earlier period of the American War to the Union, and was so impressed with the distinction of Irish from English Eloquence, in [Henry] Flood, Curran, and Grattan compared with [Charles James] Fox, [William] Pitt, and [William] Wyndham, and so much pleased with the specific differences of Genius in the two latter tho' under one genus, that I was passing up to my Room here in order to finish an Essay on this Subject when your Letter was put into my hand;" saying that he hopes Godwin is well, and that, apart for one evening at Charles Lamb's, he has not visited anyone since they last saw each other; mentioning in a postscript that letters for him should be addressed to "7, Portland Place, Hammersmith : for I am then sure of receiving it in the course of 24 Hours at farthest."
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