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• Author/Creator:Biggs and Cottle.
  
• Title:Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads, 1800.
  
• Physical Description:0.13 linear feet (1 box)
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: GEN MSS 1261
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Former call number: MS Vault Wordsworth
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: William Wordsworth Collection (GEN MSS 1262) Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  In English.
  Formerly owned by R. G. Longman. Purchased from Gabriel Wells (Sotheby's sale, 1934 June 19, lot 535) on the Albert H. Childs Fund, 1934.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Biggs and Cottle, printers in Bristol, England.
  William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English poet.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet.
  Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855), sister and companion of William Wordsworth.
  
• Summary:Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy.
  
• Publications:Important Coleridge and Wordsworth Manuscripts Acquired by Yale, by Cornelius H. Patton, in Yale Library Gazette 9, no. 2 (October 1934): 42-45.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Biggs and Cottle Correspondence Regarding Lyrical Ballads. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
  Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
  Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
  Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
  Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Lyrical ballads.
  Biggs and Cottle.
  English literature--19th century.
  Poets, English--19th century.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Longman, R. G.--Ownership.
  
• Occupation:Poets Great Britain 19th century.
  
• Also listed under:Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
  Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
  Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.