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Coleridge originals sell for pounds8,000 at auction

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From: Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
Date: 20070704
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Two letters and a madrigal by Samuel Taylor Coleridge sold for a combined pounds8,160 at a Christie's auction yesterday.

The items, written by the Ottery St Mary-born poet in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attracted many potential buyers.

An 1806 letter from Coleridge, telling his brother about his travels in Europe, fetched pounds5,400, well above its pre-auction valuation of pounds3,000.

The nine-line madrigal, dated January 20, 1822, and titled Fickle Flowers, sold for pounds1,800, and another letter to his brother in 1791 reached pounds960.

Coleridge, born in 1772, was the ...

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