NOTEBOOK 60

VCL Coleridge Collection MS 23

VCL Coleridge Collection MS 23

COVER

No real cover, but the usual white label marked in ink N 60 on the first page. In an unknown hand, in pencil, the word “Copied” is written vertically towards the lefthand margin. The first entry begins on the first page or front cover; the last entry is on the last page (f28^v) or back cover. See entries 4728 and 4944 and nn. Both are darkened with use.

WATERMARK

W.Turner

 1805

SIZE AND CONDITION

Approximately the same size as N 61 (see CN in Gen N) i.e.× 28 leaves, of which ff19^vi, 25^v– 28 are blank. This is a small home-made booklet that, like N 61, was stitched together with crotchet cotton on the longer side of sheets cut to size. Altogether it is in battered condition with some corners broken (f1, f10). An attempt appears to have been made to repair it, ff1, 2, 3 and 4 having been glued in together; they have broken away from the rest of the notebook. Entries are in ink.

PERIOD OF USE

October 1820, possibly for a brief time in 1822, and in the summer of 1823.