BIB_ID
417064
Accession number
MA 2204.39
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, circa 1818 January 29.
Credit line
Purchased from James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 1962.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Coleridge does not date the letter. In the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs argues that, based on the similarity of the wording between this letter and another letter dated January 28, 1818, it was probably written at around the same time. 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).
Address panel: "W. Godwin, Esqre / at the Juvenile Library / Skinner Street." This is followed by a note: "Should Mr G. not be at home, Mrs Godwin will have the goodness to open this Letter."
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: "W. Godwin, Esqre / at the Juvenile Library / Skinner Street." This is followed by a note: "Should Mr G. not be at home, Mrs Godwin will have the goodness to open this Letter."
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
Apologizing for having forgetten to send the Godwins a ticket for his lectures at the London Philosophical Society; inviting them to come any Friday or Tuesday evening and saying that he will leave a ticket for them; adding that he is distressed to find that "Ritson's Metrical Romances" (probably Joseph Ritson's Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës) is out of print and cannot be found at any booksellers'; asking, if Godwin owns the book, if he could borrow it until tomorrow night; asking Godwin to entrust it to the bearer of the letter; adding in a postscript that the bearer can take a note to anyone in the general area, if Godwin knows someone who might own a copy of the Romances and would be willing to lend it; asking, if Godwin neither owns the book nor knows anyone else who does, if he could recommend "two or three of the nearest circulating Libraries in the man's way back to Highgate -."
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