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Boston Public Library, MS C.1.22.1. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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I am wearied of waiting for Carlisles papers, of which I,
& I suppose you have been in daily expectation. they will however when they
reach you, be more full than you expected, as I hear Saxon
On Tuesday I summoned up resolution, took leave of Edith, & set off on an
expedition to Wapping. in my way I discovered the Royalty Theatre.the new ways, in the
course of which I travelled thro the Minories, made Hounsditch point, & bore
up Aldgate, steering on boldly till I came to Cape Sharpes Shop.
You see by my date that we have removed. the apartments in which we now are, are not such as we could wish to settle in, but they were the best we could discover in our haste to remove, & you know the old proverb ‘any port in a storm.’
Since you left town, Biddlecombe my neighbour at Burton, to whom I am obliged for a bed for my brother, & for very many
kindnesses during my residence there, desired me to write an epitaph for an old
gentleman, whose life had been irreproachable & happy.
______
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I wish they would bury people by the road side, as the Romans did, a good
monumental inscription coming suddenly upon the mind, might produce a good
effect. xxxxxxx indeed for you know I wish to
see inscriptions scalculated to awaken good
feelings scattered all over the country.
I have at last some prospect of finishing my book,
The frigate which my
brother left has had an engagement lately & taken a French
frigate.Phoebe had captured the French frigate, La
Nereide, on 21 December 1797. Three of the Phoebe’s crew were killed in the action.
Of my brother Harry I have very good accounts from Yarmouth. he is as happy as I expected
& as diligent as I could wish. Lucky is that boy who escapes the a school education, for where one is
benefited, an hundred are seriously & perhaps irreparably injured. did Tom show you some reflections upon
public schools which I wrote soon after leaving Westminster, & printed since
in the Monthly Magazine?
We shall soon see you. here is a plentiful crop of snow descending, & you may perhaps arrive in time to enjoy the thaw. Ediths remembrances.
After all Coleridge
enters the ministry, & is invited to preach on trial at Shrewsbury, for
two Sundays.