Autograph letter signed : place of writing not specified, to his nephew Edward, [1826 Feb. 8].

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Autograph letter signed : place of writing not specified, to his nephew Edward, [1826 Feb. 8].

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Describing how he has been "spiritually benefitted" by his recent poor health; mentioning Schleiermacher's sermons; commenting on the New Testament Gospels and the Apocalypse; discussing Henry Nelson Coleridge's Six months in the West Indies in 1825; noting that Luther's "Table-talk" [Dr. Martin Luther's divine discourses at his table, collected by Antonius Lauterbach] is "next to the Scriptures [his] main book of meditation"; criticizing the "wretched trash" Sir Walter Scott has been publishing; speaking contemtuously of Scott's financial failure and noting that he has "enough to feel for without wasting [his] Sympathy on a Scotchman suffering the penalty of his Scotchery"; discussing Derwent Coleridge. The letter also mentions Sir George Beaumont.

1 item (11 p., with address) : ill. (port.) ; 22.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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