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Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

More than 200 photographs : colour 35mm transparencies in 4 wooden slide cabinets and one Kodak paper box ; containers approximately 40 x 30 x 40 cm

Statues and personalia of eminent persons in Europe. Photographs by H. Avery.

Pat Barker's brilliant antiwar novel, Regeneration, was widely hailed as a masterpiece and was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of 1992. Now Pat Barker returns to the World War I era with The Eye in the Door, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1993.

The eye in the door / Pat Barker.

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

Lavater compares the Dryden with an adjacent portrait of Veronese. The former is less productive than the latter, but with more solidity. "If its fund is less rich, if its means of selection more slender, it has the superiority in respect of energy"

John Dryden: portrait. Drawing, c. 1793.

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Životopis lékaře Borbonia a výklad jeho deníků / G. Gellner.

Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

One autograph letter, signed, to Thomas Allsop, regarding the selection process for various surgical appointments. Allsop was a close associate of Coleridge at this time, and had embarked on a project to record the poet's conversation for posterity.
Coleridge describes the contest to succeed the recently deceased Henry Cline junior (d.1820) as surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital, endorsing Cline's cousin (and "our friend") Joseph Henry Green (1791–1863). Green had initiated a series of weekly tutorials with Coleridge, centring on German philosophy, in 1818, and these persisted until Coleridge's death. Coleridge asks Allsop to use his influence on Green's behalf, but in fact Green was not to be successful in this attempt. Coleridge records that his rivals are Titus Berry and Frederick Tyrrell (1793-1843); it was Tyrrell who was appointed to the post, in 1822.
Coleridge also discusses the recent contest to become Assistant Surgeon to the London Eye Infirmary (later Moorfields Eye Hospital) and the personal links behind it. He records that the eminent surgeon Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841) had supported Tyrrell for this post (to which Tyrrell was indeed appointed) because of personal connections, Tyrrell being his former pupil (and later the husband of Cooper's niece). In this, Coleridge alleges, the superior merits of Edward Stanley (c.1792-1862) had been overlooked, against Cooper's better judgement.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), poet and philosopher

Lavater writes of this eye that in it "shine[s] forth the soul and genius of one of our German poets"

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Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

Statues and personalia of eminent persons in Europe. Photographs by H. Avery.

The eye in the door / Pat Barker.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

John Dryden: portrait. Drawing, c. 1793.

Životopis lékaře Borbonia a výklad jeho deníků / G. Gellner.

Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), poet and philosopher

An eye; according to Lavater, belonging to a German poet. Drawing, c. 1794.

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Four poets: Thomas Campbell, George Crabbe, Lord Byron, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Engraving.

Statues and personalia of eminent persons in Europe. Photographs by H. Avery.

The eye in the door / Pat Barker.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

John Dryden: portrait. Drawing, c. 1793.

Životopis lékaře Borbonia a výklad jeho deníků / G. Gellner.

Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), poet and philosopher

An eye; according to Lavater, belonging to a German poet. Drawing, c. 1794.

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