Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads, 1800

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Title: Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads, 1800
Creator: Biggs and Cottle
Contributor: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Abstract: Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy
Description: Biggs and Cottle, printers in Bristol, England.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English poet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet.
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), sister and companion of William Wordsworth.
In English.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R. G. Longman. Purchased from Gabriel Wells (Sotheby's sale, 1934 June 19, lot 535) on the Albert H. Childs Fund, 1934.
Extent: 0.13 linear feet (1 box)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: Biggs and Cottle Correspondence Regarding Lyrical Ballads. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.