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Letters asking for money could fetch poet's heirs pounds100k

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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20071207
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Personal letters, papers, notebooks and inscribed first editions relating to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, said to be the most significant collection remaining in the hands of direct descendants of the Devon- born Romantic poet, are set to fetch up to pounds100,000 at auction next week.

The archive, including a lock of Coleridge's hair and revealing letters to his brother George, is being offered at a Sotheby's literature sale in London on December 13.

It has been passed by descent through the Coleridge family, most items forming part of the collection inherited by the poet's grandson, Ernest ...

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