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Coleridge (Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834). Poet. Early Recollections; Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, during his long residence in Bristol, by Jospeh Cottle, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longman, Rees & Co., 1837, inscribed on the title-page of volume 1 by H[enry] N[elson] Coleridge (1798-1843) and dated 1837, (two messy closed tear repairs to inner margins, scatted and mostly brief pencil annotations [by Sarah Coleridge, 1802-1852, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge], one of the lengthiest notes written vertically to margins of volume 1, pp. 136-7, ‘never went to live at Stowey till their child Hartley was 4 months old – in Jan. 1896 [1797] – nor did they ever reside in Bristol, as a home after their 3 years residence at Stowey – having gone to remain a winter in London – and this was after the return of S.T.C. from Germany – and after the death of their second child Berkeley, who died during his father's absence of a decline after innoculation for the smallpox. He died at his grandmother’s house in Newfoundland St. Bristol to which place his mother had carried his for better med[ical] advice. Hartley and a servant were with her, after a short time they went to Westbury on a visit to Mr & Mrs Southey. After quitting London they proceeded to Keswick where were born Derwent and Sara – and where Mrs C. and her daughter continued to reside until the marriage of her daughter’, lacks 5 of the 6 portrait plates (only Amos Cottle present), original pimpled cloth, spines torn and split, rubbed and some wear to extremities, 8vo The annotations, largely in volume 1, are concerned with inaccuracies in the narrative. It would appear that Cottle had written the work in some pique ('Hurt by Coleridge's failure to express public gratitude and by Coleridge's rough treatment of Alfred ... Southey, the Coleridges, and others tried to stop publication' (ODNB, Joseph Cottle).