February 4, 1785 [London, Christ’s Hospital]. Dear Mother, — I received your letter with pleasure on the second instant, and should have had it sooner, but that we had not a holiday before last Tuesday, when my brother delivered it me. I also with gratitude received the two handkerchiefs and the half-a-crown from Mr. Badcock, […]
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February 1797 to Thomas Poole.
In his mid-twenties, Coleridge wrote this group of five letters to a friend, exploring his past as a source of insight into his character and temperament. Monday, February, 1797 My dear Poole, I could inform the dullest author of how he might write an interesting book. Let him relate the events of his own life with […]