Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
Container / Volume:
Folder: Letter 1
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
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.
Alternative Title:
Letter 1. To Biggs and Cottle. 1800 July 28. Letter from Wordsworth to Mr. Davy (afterwards Sir Humphrey Davy)
Description:
Ellen Irwin., Heartleap well., The brothers (part), and There was a boy.
Subject (Name):
Biggs and Cottle., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 , Longman, R. G.--Ownership., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855, and Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century. and Poets, English--19th century.
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Description:
In two sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately by the cataloger. and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions, in some cases on the same page.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
Joseph Thomas Heath's diary describes farm life in Steilacoom, Oregon Territory. The diary is accompanied by letters relating to Heath and the diary. 195 p.
Subject (Geographic):
Steilacoom (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Heath, Joseph 1805-1849
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Washington (State) and Farm life--Washington (State)