Samuel T. Coleridge

You may know me from such poems as 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'. Here I share selections from my letters.

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We are soothed by communication.

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making a good Halt at dear ever fondly remembered Stowey, of which, believe me, your image, and the feelings and associations connected therewith, constitute four fifths,
to, my dear Poole, | Your obliged and | affectionate Friend

S.T. Coleridge

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To Thomas Poole

[Endorsed July 1821]

My dear Poole
   Mr Stutfield Junr has been so kind as to inform me of his Father's purposed Journey to Stowey and to give me this opportunity of writing--

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O that Riches would but make wings for me instead of for itself--and I would fly to the Sea Shore at Porlock & Lynemouth,

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would be an ominous symptom either of your own laxity of moral Principle...or of your abandonment to a blind passion kindled by superficial Advantages and *Outside Agreeables...

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To Unknown Correspondent

[June 1821 ?]

If there be any one subject, which it especially concerns a young Woman to understand...IT IS THAT OF MARRIAGE.

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--then, I say, that to smile, or shew yourself *smiling-angry*, as if a Tap with your Fan was a sufficient punishment,