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Columbia University Library. Previously published: Joseph Cottle, Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (London, 1847), pp. 215–216.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editor wishes to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my
return from a library belonging to the dissentersfol old
folios so respectably covered with dust. I begin to like dirty rotten binding,
& whenever I get among books pass by the gilt coxcombs & yet disturb the spiders. — But you shall hear
what I have got. a Latin poem in four long books upon Joan of Arc. very bad —
but it gives me a quaint note or two — & Valerandus Valerius
If you think what I am about to say to Biggs will spur him — read & send it. he behaves very unhandsomely. the book is wanted — & delay is a real loss.
John May & Carlisle were here last night,
& we struck out a plan which if we can effect it will be of great use.
it is to be called the Convalescent Asylum, & intended to receive
persons who are sent from the hospitals — as the immediate
return to unwholesome air — bad diet — & all the loathsomeness of
poverty, destroys a very great number. the plan is to employ them in a large
garden — & it is supposed that the institution in about three years will
support itself. on a small scale — for 40 persons — but the success of one will
give birth to many others. Wynn
enters heartily into it — wex meet on Saturday
again — & as soon as the plan is at all digested — Carlisle means to send it to Beddoes for his inspection.
We were led to this by the circumstance of finding a poor woman, almost dying for want, who is now rapidly recovering in the hospital under Carlisle.
God bless you — I am ashamed to see the fragment upon
Malverncome drop in — you would excuse the appearance of
neglect.
Ediths love.
Rossers charge is so palpably unjust that I am sorry you have employed him in Lloyds book. you well know that the fault was wholly his own.
How is William Reids
I shall write soon to Danvers.
Have you found the conclusion of the first book?