Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
Container / Volume:
Folder: Letter 2
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:
Lyrical Ballads. The Brothers (conclusion). Strange fits of passion have I known. She dwelt among the untrodden ways. A slumber did my spirit seal.
Description:
A slumber did my spirit seal., She dwelt among the untrodden ways., Strange fits of passion have I known., and The brothers (conclusion)
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.
18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Bewly, Anthony
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: : put into a new method, proper to acquaint the
Image Count:
7
Description:
Autograph and inscription by Joseph Ward on back flyleaf.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language --Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. --Early works to 1800, Latin language --Readers --Early works to 1800, and Picture books for children --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
Philadelphia: : Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]