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1720 - Money-Kyrle family of Whetham, Calne
4 - FAMILY,PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD
6 - CORRESPONDENCE
Reference
1720/838
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Title
Copy of a letter written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Rev. William Money c 1815.
Description
Writes a three page letter to decline an invitation to stay with Money, due to the bad weather and the risk of worsening his existing ill health. Mentions how he is dead to all but intellectual pleasures 'for surely the staving off of Pain is no pleasure'. States that he entertains a high respect for Money's 'moral being' due to his friendship to fellow Christians. Mentions [William Lisle] Bowles. Discusses the state of the Church of England and the possibility of schism from evangelical dissenters.
Date
1839
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