Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
09-10 November 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/968
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    470 A.L.s. 14 pp. 4to, Highgate, 19 Sept. 1821, “ Private,” saying that he is sending various MSS. for publication : . .. I propose after these to endorse the substance of my Icctures on Shakes- peare, Milton, Dante, and Cervantes. I owe this to myself and to my Auditors, But in “The Ideal of a Magazine” you will learn from my frivate notes the sort of matter, with which I can furnish you. He goes on to ask for the advance of £50. [See ILLUSTRATION. ] 471 A.L.s. 3 pp. 8vo, (1820), an interesting letter concerning Astley Cooper backing Dr. Tyrell as Surgeon for the eye Institution 472 A.L.s. 3pp. 8vo, Grove, Highgate, March 5, 1825: ... 1 would fain have you not even speak or write below that line of friend- ship and mutual implicit reliance, on which you and I stand. We are in the World & obliged to chafe and chatter with it; but we are not of the World, nor will we use it’s idioms or adopt it’s brogue... The signature and two other words are damaged by sealing. 473 A.L.s. 2 pp. 8vo, Highgate, Sunday Afternoon, $ past 4 (10 July, 1821): I did not think the mere possibility of your not having set off the evening before a sufficient counterweight to the risk of missing the Kentish Town Stage which leaves Tottenham Court Road on Sundays at 4 past 12... 474 A.L.s. 14 pp. 8vo, Highgate 21 Sept. 1820, mentioning Charles Lamb : Derwent is at Mr. Charles Lloyds somewhere near Kensington—I- have some semblance of a recollection, that it is at the Gravel Pits, but nothing that I can rely on. C. Lamb can tell you, should any of your people be going into the City, & can take a note to him at the India House, between the Hours of 10 & 3—You know, I suppose, that dear Miss Lamb is indisposed—& it is therefore not so certain, that Ch. Lamb will be at his Lodgings in Russel St. after the Office Hours. 475 CoLeriper (Samuel Taylor) Essays on HIs own Times, 1850, vol. ITI, pp. 677-733, MS. 62 pp. in an unknown hand with a number of correc- tions in Coleridge’s hand; in a 4to MS. book containing important MSS. in Coleridge’s hand, viz. “ Fragment of an intended third Stanza to Youth and Age,” 1p. 4to; “ Elegiac . . . sonnet to my Tin Shaving pot,” Jan. 1832, 1p. 4to; “ A Burlesque on Southey’s Irregular Blank Verse,” being amusing lines on an execution scene at the Old Bailey, Ato, sewed 476 CuHesteR (John) A.L.s. 1p. 4to, enclosing a small pencil sketch of Coleridge’s Cottage at Nether Stowey, together with a small water- colour drawing of Coleridge’s residence at The Grove, Highgate (3) 47% Conertper (S. T.) Printed Prospectus of a Course of Lectures by S. T. Coleridge, Jan. and Feb. 1818, 2 pp. 4to
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