DEAR Sir, I am totally incapable of doing what you
suggest at present, and think it right to tell you so without
delay. It would shock me, who am shocked enough already, to sit down
to
1834
THE DEATH OF COLERIDGE
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write about it. I have no letters of poor C. By and bye what scraps I have shall be
yours. Pray excuse me. It is not for want of obliging you, I assure you. For
your Box we most cordially feel thankful. I shall be your debtor in my poor
way. I do assure you I am incapable.
Again, excuse me
Yours sincerely
C. L.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English poet and philosopher who projected Lyrical Ballads (1798)
with William Wordsworth; author of Biographia Literaria (1817), On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829) and other
works.
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Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb
Title:The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905).
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