BIB_ID
417027
Accession number
MA 2204.34
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1811 November 13.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.3 x 19 cm
Notes
Coleridge lists only "Wednesday Evening" for the date of writing, but the letter has been endorsed "Nov. 13, 1811," which fell on a Wednesday. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
No place of writing is given, but based on the contents and other letters from the same period, it was most likely written in London.
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).
No place of writing is given, but based on the contents and other letters from the same period, it was most likely written in London.
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 a "severe Bowel-attack, occasioned by Cold, and producing extreme soreness to the outward touch" caused him to delay thanking Godwin personally for his efforts in promoting Coleridge's lectures (see MA 2204.33); asking if Godwin could make an addition to the advertisement for the lectures and giving him the wording; adding "I begin very much to doubt, whether my scheme will answer, for few if any of my Friends at the West End of the Town will condescend to attend a Lecture in the City;" mentioning that he has been so ill that "tho' I reached Chancery Lane, I have been quite unable to extend my Walk to Skinner Street -."
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