BIB_ID
417030
Accession number
MA 2204.35
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1811 November 16.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Like Coleridge's letter to Godwin dated November 8, 1811 (cataloged as MA 2204.33), this letter has been written on the blank pages of a prospectus for a series of lectures on Shakespeare and Milton to be given by Coleridge at the London Philosophical Society. In this case, Coleridge has made no annotations on the prospectus.
Coleridge provides no date of writing, but the letter has been endorsed "Nov. 16, 1811." 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).
Address panel: "Mr Godwin."
Coleridge provides no date of writing, but the letter has been endorsed "Nov. 16, 1811." 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).
Address panel: "Mr Godwin."
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 been very ill all week; describing his bowel problems and how he has treated them; saying that he has not been able to leave the house or even sit upright; adding that he encloses a ticket and he hopes that "the youthful members of your Family may receive amusement;" writing that the "Room is far far smaller than I had been led to believe ; yet, I fear, will look too spacious for my purposes;" sending his regards to Mary Jane Godwin.
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