Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
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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.
Documents relating to J. D. Fondren & Bro. : Richmond, Va., 1788-1863
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript letters and receipts, dated 1858 to 1868, and other letters, deeds and documents relating to slaves and the slave trade, from 1788 to 1863.
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[Autograph letter signed] 1859 March 9, Hollow Square, Alabama [to] Friend Fondren