# - Coleridge, S.T.

about discharging a bill, the miseries of regimental life ("...My present situation is indeed fatiguing, and involves a long et cetera  of disagreeables - but to me who have suffered so acutely from the diseases of the inward man, externals have lost much of the formidable..."), and his attempt to write poetry for a Cambridge prize ("...whatever be my lot with respect to College this can do me no harm, and by amusing me certainly does some good..."), 1 page, folio, address panel, postmarked from High Wycombe, 3 March 179[4], postal marks, small seal tear just affecting text

Published in the Collected Letters, ed. Griggs, I, p.70 (No.38).

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"...whate'er betides, some solace have I won..." A letter written during Coleridge's unhappy stint as a dragoon (under the memorable pseudonym Silas Tomkyn Comberbache). His discharge came the following month, facilitated by George Coleridge's payment of 25 guineas.