Box 6

Letter: Ramsgate, to Mrs. Charles Aders, London

ALS. A witty invitation to dinner that includes a lengthy melodrama "entitled The Invitation, an epic Drama, in the style of Homer and Shakespear [sic]. Finer models the author could not have selected for their imitation." Coleridge adds: "P.S. The Letter and all the sense on the third side."

Letter: to Basil Montague, Esq., Lincoln

Addressed envelope only.

Lock of Hair Envelope enclosing lock of the poet's hair. Note states, "A lock of the Hair of Coleridge from Mrs. Gilman by Mr. Reymer, Sept 4th 1834."

Letter: Washington, D.C., to Henry G. Hill, New York, N.Y.

ALS. Brief message, written on House of Representatives stationery: "Complying with your request, I am, yours truly, Schuyler Colfax." Also included in this folder is an autograph from Colfax dated May 28, 1877.

Letter: Liverpool, to E.L. Grundy, Esq.

ALS. "Mr. [W.] Collingwood is much obliged to you for your notice of him in the Mercury and begs your acceptance of the accompanying little sketch of the lake of St. Moritz in the Grisons as a slight acknowledgment of his obligations to you."

Letter: Liverpool, to E. Landseer Grundy

ALS. Acknowledges receipt of Grundy's letter of June 11 and offers his "personal thanks for the kind and favourable notice of my works for which I was indebted to you"

Letters: London, to "My dear Madam"

3 ALsS. Writes to a woman who sends manuscripts of plays for his consideration. His negative replies are unfailingly polite and discursive without being specific.

Letters: London, to Samuel Loveman, Esq., 1887-1976, Cleveland, Ohio

ALS and 2 TLsS. Letters continue a discussion on Keats, John Taylor, and John Clare. "It is puzzling to find a detached couplet from the end of Lamia thus written in Keats's own hand . . . There seems to be no possible doubt about the genuineness of the Keats autograph." Gives details of the publication of his book on Keats and discourses on the books authored by John Flaxman.

Letter: to Miss Spring Rice

ALS. Says he would very much like to talk with her further about the "Blanchard Keats Sonnet." With separate page, in Colvin's hand, with description of Keats's song "Sharing Eve's Apple."

Letter: London, to Charles Scribner, Esq., New York, N.Y.

ALS. Writes about his book on John Keats and its upcoming release in America: "I hope for your sake that critics and public may be as kind to the work in America as they have been here. So far - that is in the first month - it has done very well . . ."