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![AUTOGRAPH LETTERS—continued. 33 Southey (Robert) Fine AurocrarH LETTER SIGNED, 4 closely written pages, 4to., Burton, July 19, 1797, to John May, Esq., giving intimate details of his life, and his quarrel with Coleridge L5 ““. .. At this time my acquaintance with Coleridge commenced . . . and resolved to go to America and attempt to establish a better system. We hoped to raise a sufficient sum amongst us. . . I went to Bristol to Coleridge and supported myself and almost him I may say, for what iny labours earned were as four to one. I gave lectures, I wrote indefatigably .. . I add to this that my opinion of Coleridge was not what it had been, for by long living with him I knew much of his character . . . our arrears were paid with 20 guineas which Cottle advanced as the copyright price of the poems which were published not till after my return from Lisbon, during all this Coleridge was to all appearance as he has ever been toward me, but I discovered that he has been employing every possible calumny against me and represents me as a villain.” BELIEVED TO BE. UNPUBLISHED. 34 Steele (Lady Mary, second wife of Sir Richurd Steele) AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 3 pp., 4to. [Feb., 1716], to her husband, complaining bitterly of his conduct towards her £2 ... “Yu fright me in not saying a Word of Mr Gilmore's affairs: you may be as soft and civil and generous, and fond, &c., as yu please to people who hate me, I will and shall have it in my power (if I live) to cast off ali Acquaintance (but a husband) who slight and despise me. 35 Sterne (Laurence) Portion of an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 4 pp. (the first two pages and a further five lines on pages 3 and 4 are copies of the original letter), 4to., Coxwold, 1760 5 . “*T have all I wish or want in this world, being in my calculation of money, all out as rich as my friend Garrick . . .” The signature and the above quotation is in Sterne’s handwriting. 36 Vanbrugh (Sir John, Dramatzst) AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 3 pp., folio, Whitehall, Nov. 29, 1719, to Jacob Tonson [the Publisher], AN EXTREMELY ‘INTERESTING LETTER, CHARAC- TERISTIC OF THE MANNERS OF THE PERIOD, with AN INSERTION IN THE HAND OF HIS WIFE (slight repair at folds and fore— edge, seven terminal letters being filled in by hand) 46 ‘“*T have only now to tell you my wife returns your Compliments. She says she’s sorry she has not a sister for you: but she knows them that have and if you'll give her a commission abel nA Wer for’t, to provide at least as well four you as she has done for me.’ He concludes with a characteristic gibe at the Duchess of Maslbarcuignd](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30483141_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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