Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
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Creator: |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
1772-1834 |
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Title: |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Collection |
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Dates: |
1786-1949, undated |
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Abstract: |
Includes manuscripts and letters
written and received by English poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. While several of the manuscript works are written in Coleridge's hand
(most extensively the poems in the Rugby Manuscript), others are later copies made
by various members of the Coleridge family. |
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Call Number: |
Manuscript Collection MS-0865 |
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Extent: |
3 document boxes (1.26 linear feet), 1 oversize box, 2 oversize folders
(osf) |
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Language: |
English |
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Repository: |
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
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Access:
Open for research
Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, 2011
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information
previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the
end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts
as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
Container List
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Works: |
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| 1.1 |
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The annual anthology: Poems and epigrams by S. T. Coleridge in
volume II, handwritten manuscript / copy, 4 pages, 1800; transcriptions
made by Sara Coleridge Coleridge in the 1840s. |
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| 1.2 |
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Christabel, handwritten manuscript / copy written in notebook, 43
pages, 1843, undated; copied by Sarah Fricker Coleridge; also written in
notebook are On the poet laureate by Hartley Coleridge, handwritten
manuscript / copy, 1816; To Edith during Sara's absence, handwritten
manuscript / copy, undated; Sonnet by a young old man, handwritten
manuscript / copy, 1829; and some of Sara Fricker Coleridge's
accounts. |
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| 1.3 |
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Christabel, 2 handwritten manuscripts / copies, 65 pages total,
1906 (date copied); two pages of notes on Christabel by J. J. Morgan
loosely laid in; copies of two manuscript versions, with textual notes
from other manuscripts, used by Ernest Hartley Coleridge for his edition
of Christabel, 1906. |
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| 1.4 |
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Commonplace book, handwritten manuscript / photocopy, 70 leaves,
undated. Spine title: The Gutch notebook; from the library of Earl
Leslie Griggs. Not described in card catalog. |
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| 1.1 |
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The Death of Wallenstein, by Schiller, handwritten manuscript /
notes, 1 page, undated. |
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Description of a sunset in a mountain woodland, handwritten
manuscript / copy, 1 page, undated; copied by Sara Dusantoy. |
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The destiny of nations, handwritten manuscript / fragment with
corrections, 1 page, undated; lines 459-469; first line Glory to thee,
Father of Earth and Heaven! From Hanley II. |
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Epigrams, handwritten manuscript / copy, 13 pages, 1799-1810;
transcriptions made by Sara Coleridge in the 1840s. |
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Epistle to the King, handwritten manuscript / fragment, 1 page,
undated; included is Epise. Anent, handwritten manuscript / fragment, 1
page, undated, and an unidentified note. |
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Exquisite contradiction unto the fore-asserted discovery...,
initialed handwritten manuscript marginalia of 3 lines appended to
Declaration of principles, undated. |
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| 1.5 |
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General introduction; or, Preliminary treatise on method,
offprint from vol. 1 of the 1845 edition of The encylopaedia
metropolitana. Tipped in: Cox, F. A., ALS to J. H. Gillman for Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, 2 April 1817. Laid in: Fellowes, B., ALS to Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, 7 April 1817. Not described in card catalog.
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| 1.1 |
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Grammar and classical education, signed handwritten manuscript,
undated; paper written to support the trustees in a controversy at
Highgate free grammar school over the terms for the school's foundation;
from the Hanley Collection. |
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Kubla Khan, 2 handwritten manuscripts / photocopies, 2 pages
each, undated; manuscript was owned by Lady Crewe who gave the copies to
Earl Griggs; the original is now in the British Museum. |
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Love, signed handwritten manuscript / photocopy, 3 pages,
undated. |
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Marginalia, handwritten manuscript / copy, 37 pages, undated;
includes notes on the Bible, Hobb's Leviathan, Berkeley's Sins, Hayley's
Milton, and others. |
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Memorandum made on the title page of Copper's Topographical
dictionary, handwritten manuscript / copy, 2 pages, undated; written on
ALS from F. T. Barnard to Joseph Henry Green, 15 October 1834 re the
memorandum. |
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| 1.6 |
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Nil pejus caelebe vita, handwritten manuscript / copy, 2 pages,
1786; copied by G. F. Webb and given to F. W. C. per note on
verso. |
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Notes in a copy of The friend..., photocopies of pages ... on
which Coleridge has written notes, 25 leaves, undated; withdrawn from PR
4480 F7 1818 copy 1. |
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Notes on A triple reconciler, by Thomas Fuller, handwritten
manuscript / copy, 3 pages, undated. |
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Note on Leighton, handwritten manuscript / copy, 6 pages, April
1814. |
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Notes on Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson in four volumes,
handwritten manuscript / copy, 27 pages, undated. |
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Notes on Shakespeare's English historical plays, handwritten
manuscript / copy, 15 pages, undated. |
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Notes on The dogmas of the constitution, by J. J. Park,
handwritten manuscript / copy, 7 pages, undated. |
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Notes on The quarterly review, handwritten manuscript / copy, 9
pages, undated; includes notes on articles by Hobhouse, Adelung,
Eustace, Southey, and Goethe; included are two copies of the notes on
Hobhouse and on Eustace, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated. |
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On punctuation, handwritten manuscript / copy, 4 pages, 1810;
transcribed by Henry Nelson Coleridge. |
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| 1.8 |
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Poems, handwritten manuscript / copies written in notebook, 104
pages, 1892; copies made by Ernest Hartley Coleridge from S. T.
Coleridge's notebooks; notebook bought from Frank E. Taylor in
1891. |
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| 1.7 |
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Poems, signed handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, 30 September 1829;
includes A somnulent extempore, eyes half-closed and the head nodding
time; The tender corn; Lover's reverie; and The young tanner; addressed
to Mrs. Aders; included is ALS from Lady Betty C. Cave to Mrs. Griggs, 9
December 1949. |
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Poetic and dramatic works of STC: notes to volume I, handwritten
manuscript, 6 pages, undated; transcribed by Sara Coleridge and Edith
Coleridge. |
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| 2.1 |
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Poetical effusions, handwritten manuscript, 63 leaves, undated. A
volume (known as the Rugby Manuscript) made up by Joseph Cottle, mainly
from manuscripts submitted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for his Poems
(1796). Purchase, 1968 (R 3836); not described in card
catalog. |
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| 2.2 |
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Poetical effusions, original binding. |
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| 2.3 |
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Poetry, handwritten manuscripts / copies, 103 pages, undated;
transcribed by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. |
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| 4.1 |
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Poetry, handwritten manuscripts / copies, 188 pages, undated;
transcribed by Sara and Henry Nelson Coleridge. |
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| 1.7 |
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Prospectus of the Friend, a weekly essay, by S. T. Coleridge,
printed sheet, 2 pages on 1 leaf, with 4 lines of marginalia and other
emendations in the hand of Sarah Hutchinson, circa 1808. |
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| 2.4 |
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Remorse, a tragedy in five acts, printed copy of the 2nd edition,
1813, with marginalia by S. T. Coleridge which was written in another
copy and transcribed into this copy by James Dykes Campbell, iv, 78
pages of printed text with handwritten notes, signed by Campbell and
dated 6 January 1889 written on 3 blank flyleaves; tipped in: printed
leaf from a selection of letters by Robert Southey; leaf from a Noel
Conway & Co. catalogue describing a letter by Walter Scott which
mentions Coleridge; loosely laid in: an incomplete copy of the
marginalia in Sara Hutchinson's hand, 1 leaf; envelope with note written
on it by Sara Coleridge. |
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| 2.5 |
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The rime of the ancient mariner, proofs, Douglas Cleverdon, at
Fanfare Press, 1929. Not described in card catalog. |
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| 1.7 |
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The tale of the dark ladie: introduction, handwritten manuscript
/ copy, 2 pages, 21 December 1799. |
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To my black shaving pot, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages on 1
leaf, possibly in the hand of James Gillman with corrections and
additions by S. T. Coleridge, undated. |
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Two prayers: Morning prayer; Evening prayer, or Prayer of
meditation on retiring to rest, handwritten manuscript with few
emendations, 3 pages, undated; handwritten note by Ann Gillman: "A
prayer written by S. T. C. for my son Henry and in his own handwriting."
From Hanley II. |
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Letters: |
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| 3.1 |
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ANS / copy to unidentified recipient re Lord Byron,
undated. |
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5 AL / copies to unidentified recipient Eliza,
1832-1834. |
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Letters hitherto uncollected ... edited with a prefatory note by
Colonel W. F. Prideaux, proof copy with handwritten corrections, 67
pages, 1913; corrections in Ernest Hartley Coleridge's hand; "Printed
for Thomas J. Wise ... edition limited to thirty copies." |
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| 3.2 |
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10 AL / copies to Allsop, Thomas, 1819-1823; copied into
notebook; also includes copies of letters from Charles Lamb, M. C.
Burney, and William Hazlitt to Allsop; and from S. T. Coleridge to Sir
Humphry Davy and William Blackwood. |
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| 3.1 |
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2 ALS to Anster, John, 18 February 1824, 2 July 1828. From the
Hanley Collection. |
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6 AL / copies, 6 AL / extracts / copies to Coleridge, Edward,
1823-1826. |
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ALS / fragment to Coleridge, Sara Fricker, August
1823. |
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ALS to Cottle, Joseph, 19 August 1807. |
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AN to Ely, Mr., undated; letter 1772 in Griggs, The collected
letters of Coleridge. |
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ALS to Frere, John Hookham, undated; letter 1021 in Griggs, The
collected letters of Coleridge. |
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AL to Hurst, Thomas, Mrs., 16 April 1830?; letter 1687 in Griggs,
The collected letters of Coleridge. |
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ALS / copy to Lamb, Charles, undated. |
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| 3.3 |
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ALS / copy to May, John, 27 September 1815. |
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ALS / copy to Monkhouse, Isabella Addison, 19 August
1801. |
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Letter cover to Morgan, Mrs., 2 November 1813; probably the cover
to letter 897 in Griggs, The collected letters of Coleridge. |
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2 ALS to Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, 8 June 1818, December 1820;
removed from Wn C678 798f. |
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ALI / copy to Poole, Thomas, 24 March 1801. |
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ALS to Rogers, Laurence, 8 August 1823; removed from Wn C678
816s; from the Wrenn Collection. |
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21 ALS / copies to Sotheby, William, 1802-1831, undated; included
is ALS / copy from S. T. Coleridge to Mrs. Sotheby. |
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ALI to Williams, J. H. B., 5 September 1832; pasted on folio leaf
from an album containing Coleridge's Genevieve. |
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Letters 1: |
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| 3.5 |
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Copies of letters to, from, and regarding S. T. Coleridge, 93 ALS
/ copies, 10 ALI / copies, 10 AL / copies, 1787-1826, undated; written
in bound notebook; in three hands; with bookplate of Lord Bernard
Coleridge. Contents include: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: letters to George
Coleridge, Edward Coleridge, William Hart Coleridge, Henry Daniel, Mary
Evans, and Tuckett; letters from George Coleridge and Josiah Wedgewood;
and 4 works; Coleridge, Edward: letter to James Coleridge; Coleridge,
George: letters to George Hopkinson, Gwynn, Pearce, Plampin, and
Wedgewood; letters from Hartley Coleridge, Hopkinson, Pearce, Pell,
Plampin, Tuckett, and Wedgewood; Coleridge, Henry Nelson: letter to
Edward Coleridge; Coleridge, Sara Fricker: letter to Jane Hart
Coleridge; Davy, H.: letter to Poole; Scott, Walter: letter to R.
Southey. |
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Recipient: |
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Carter, Thomas. ALS to Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 21 June
1817. |
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Coleridge, William Hart, 1789-1849. ALS to Coleridge, Samuel
Taylor, 23 March 1824. |
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| 1.5 |
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Fellowes, B. ALS to Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 7 April 1817. Laid
into General introduction; or Preliminary treatise on methods. Not
described in card catalog. |
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| 3.6 |
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Fenner, Rest. ALS / copy to Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 24 February
1818. |
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Laurence, S., Miss. ALS to Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 2 March
1833. |
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Southey, Sarah. ALS to Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 5 August
1833. |
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Miscellaneous: |
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| 3.7 |
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Unidentified author. Review of Piccolomini by Schiller;
translated by S. T. Coleridge, handwritten manuscript, 7 pages, 1850;
copied from Westminster Review, July 1850, p. 359-360; included is
another partial handwritten manuscript / copy, 4 pages. |
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Charles Lamb Society. TLS to Griggs, Earl Leslie, 19 September
1948. |
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Coleridge, Anthony. Christmas card to Griggs, Earl Leslie,
undated. |
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Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920. List of S. T. Coleridge's
poems, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, undated. |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834: |
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| 3.7 |
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Autopsy report, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated. |
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The heptad of colour, handwritten note and diagram, 1 page,
undated; includes handwritten note in another hand. |
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List of American subscribers to the portrait of S. T. Coleridge, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. |
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Memo of agreement with Rest Fenner, bookseller, for the
copyright of Zapolya, Introduction to Encyclopedia Metropolitan,
Literary life, Sybillene leaves, the first and second Lay Sermons,
and the Friend, signed handwritten manuscript / copy, 2 pages, 18
August 1817. |
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Notes, signed handwritten manuscript / photocopy, 4 pages,
undated. |
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TccL to Ader, Mrs., 1826. Transcription of letter re
Coleridge's portrait by Madame von Predl. Not described in card
catalog. |
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Will and testament, signed handwritten manuscript / copy, 6
pages, 17 September 1829; included is a codicil dated 2 July
1830. |
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Coleridge, Sara Coleridge. Distribution of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge's minor writings, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated. |
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Collingwood, William Gershom, 1854-1932. Notes on S. T.
Coleridge's journal of 1799, handwritten manuscript, 5 pages,
undated. |
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Coleridge, Derwent. Proposed edition of the collected works of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, advertisement, handwritten manuscript with
emendations, 4 pages, 1860; includes envelope in which this was sent to
Mrs. Coleridge. |
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Cox, F. A. ALS to T. H. Gilman for S. T. Coleridge, postmarked 2
April 1817. |
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| 3.8 |
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Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863. Confessions of an enquiring
spirit: Letter I, handwritten manuscript / copy / incomplete, 3 pages,
undated; page one is lacking. |
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Griggs, Earl Leslie, 1899- . Bibliography of books and articles
by Griggs, typescript / mimeo, 4 pages, undated. |
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Grove, George. Index of subjects in the works of STC, handwritten
manuscript, 40 pages, undated. |
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| 3.9 |
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Morgan, John? Review of Christabel by S. T. Coleridge,
handwritten manuscript with revisions, 25 pages, undated. From Hanley
II. |
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| 3.8 |
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Patteson, Fanny. Notes on Euclid, and on Charles Lamb,
handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, 1837. |
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| 3.10 |
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Quillinan, Dorothy Wordsworth, 1804-1847. Journal of her tour on
the continent with her father and S. T. Coleridge, carbon typed
transcript with handwritten title page, 88 pages, 1828. |
Prior to 1990 when archival cataloging procedures were adopted at the Ransom Center,
all manuscript collections were described in a card catalog.
Organization of Collections:
Manuscripts for each author collection were organized into four categories:
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Works: manuscripts by the author, arranged
alphabetically by title;
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Letters: the author's outgoing correspondence,
arranged alphabetically by recipient name;
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Recipient: the author's incoming
correspondence, arranged alphabetically by the author of the letter; and
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Miscellaneous: all other manuscripts and
correspondence, arranged alphabetically by creator.
Materials that did not fit into these categories, such as art, photographs, books,
and near-print materials such as newspaper clippings, were dispersed to other Ransom
Center collections for cataloging and storage.
Abbreviations Used in Descriptions:
The symbols below were used in combinations. For example ALS means autograph letter signed; Tccms means
typed carbon copy manuscript, etc.
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A = autograph (i.e., handwritten)
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T = typed
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S = signed
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I = initialed
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Ms = manuscript
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Mss = manuscripts
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L = letter
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FL = form letter
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N = note
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D = document
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C = card
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PC = post card
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cc = carbon copy
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p = page
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pp = pages
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l = leaf
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ll = leaves
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nd = no date
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inc d = incomplete date
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