COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Autograph letter signed (“S.T. Coleridge”) to his friend and “favourite disciple”, the stockbroker and author Thomas Allsop, Grove, Highgate, 25 May 1827. 2 pages, 4to on a bifolium, the name “T. Allsop Esq” in Coleridge’s hand, the remainder of the address in the hand of the wife of his friend James Gillman in Highgate, along with the note “you will be so good as to deliver the Book to Mr Pickering himself there are directions on a paper within side,” small tear at seal .
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Autograph letter signed (“S.T. Coleridge”) to his friend and “favourite disciple”, the stockbroker and author Thomas Allsop, Grove, Highgate, 25 May 1827. 2 pages, 4to on a bifolium, the name “T. Allsop Esq” in Coleridge’s hand, the remainder of the address in the hand of the wife of his friend James Gillman in Highgate, along with the note “you will be so good as to deliver the Book to Mr Pickering himself there are directions on a paper within side,” small tear at seal . THE “SNUG BURROW IN THE WARREN OF MY BRAIN” Coleridge had given Allsop a letter for delivery to Lord Dudley, and expresses his confusion and concern: … “It is not from any the most distant approach to a suspicion, that any thing doable was left undone by you, of and concerning my letter to Lord Dudley, that I now write to you. But the non-receipt of an Answer from him has set my Fancy a ferreting into all the holes, and corners of Possibility-if peradventure it might chance to unearth the cause or occasion. And among the improbable possibilities, driven or dragged out of its Snug Burrow in the Warren of my Brain, it occurred to me that in my hurry and confusion I might not have conveyed to you the object & exigence of my troubling you with the charge of my Letter…. Do drop me a line on receipt of this—and how is it to get to you? For Mrs. Gillman has forgot & mislaid both your address & Mr. Jameson’s!...” In a typically perilous state financially, Coleridge was seeking Lord Dudley’s fulfillment of a promise made by the Earl of Liverpool in 1826, that a sinecure would be given to the poet. Liverpool suffered a paralytic stroke on 17 February 1827, and died as a result the following year.
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Autograph letter signed (“S.T. Coleridge”) to his friend and “favourite disciple”, the stockbroker and author Thomas Allsop, Grove, Highgate, 25 May 1827. 2 pages, 4to on a bifolium, the name “T. Allsop Esq” in Coleridge’s hand, the remainder of the address in the hand of the wife of his friend James Gillman in Highgate, along with the note “you will be so good as to deliver the Book to Mr Pickering himself there are directions on a paper within side,” small tear at seal .
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor Autograph letter signed (“S.T. Coleridge”) to his friend and “favourite disciple”, the stockbroker and author Thomas Allsop, Grove, Highgate, 25 May 1827. 2 pages, 4to on a bifolium, the name “T. Allsop Esq” in Coleridge’s hand, the remainder of the address in the hand of the wife of his friend James Gillman in Highgate, along with the note “you will be so good as to deliver the Book to Mr Pickering himself there are directions on a paper within side,” small tear at seal . THE “SNUG BURROW IN THE WARREN OF MY BRAIN” Coleridge had given Allsop a letter for delivery to Lord Dudley, and expresses his confusion and concern: … “It is not from any the most distant approach to a suspicion, that any thing doable was left undone by you, of and concerning my letter to Lord Dudley, that I now write to you. But the non-receipt of an Answer from him has set my Fancy a ferreting into all the holes, and corners of Possibility-if peradventure it might chance to unearth the cause or occasion. And among the improbable possibilities, driven or dragged out of its Snug Burrow in the Warren of my Brain, it occurred to me that in my hurry and confusion I might not have conveyed to you the object & exigence of my troubling you with the charge of my Letter…. Do drop me a line on receipt of this—and how is it to get to you? For Mrs. Gillman has forgot & mislaid both your address & Mr. Jameson’s!...” In a typically perilous state financially, Coleridge was seeking Lord Dudley’s fulfillment of a promise made by the Earl of Liverpool in 1826, that a sinecure would be given to the poet. Liverpool suffered a paralytic stroke on 17 February 1827, and died as a result the following year.
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