BIB_ID
417040
Accession number
MA 2204.37
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1812 January 8.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.9 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Coleridge provides no date of writing, but the letter has been endorsed "Dec. 4, 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).
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
Asking him not to forget the advertisement tomorrow and giving him the wording for it ("On Dr Johnson's Preface, and the criticisms and comments of Shakspeare in general"); exclaiming "O that it was over! I should then have some time to shew myself personally."
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