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British Library, Add MS 47890. Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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My Mother
has been telling me a long story about Capt Hawker,
I did not send my Letters before the
Poems
You shall not again be so long without
hearing from me. you know that many employments allow me but
little leisure – & now my two books are done – I have
more work. the business of Chatterton of which you have
heard me speak is now to be brought forward.
Mrs Coleridge has buried her child, &
is now with the other little boy at Martinhall.xxxx us about ten days.
the boy has strong genius – but he has been miserably
managed. I kept him a little under – however he is very
desirous of coming again. My Mother is
again in the Green, where I suppose the usual topic of
discourse to entertain her is your disaffection – & my
unhappy principles – “for I always said” adds my Aunt “that
Robert would be the ruin of all his brothers!”
The Income Bill has taken place – & in
fourteen days I must give in a statement of my affairs.
I hope none of these jack-ass praters will get at your Uncle – let them bray as they please elsewhere.
We have been buried in the snow & delayed
with the thaw. all our bottles & jugs burst with the
frost – & if I had been corked & put out at night I
might have burst too. News we have none. the loss of the
Ambuscad as you may suppose excited much surprize.
y. 12.
99.
When do you pass? if in May we shall meet.