Word: frere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Written on July 2, 1816, the letter accompanied some of Coleridge's manuscripts which he sent for criticism to one of his friends, the Right Honorable John Hookham Frere, a noted English diplomat and author of humorous poetry, famous for his translations of Aristophanes. The manuscripts sent to Frere included the first volume and a part of the second of Coleridge's work, "My Literary Life", as well as his "Sibylline Leaves", the latter being a collection of his poems, which, as he writes, he "dared consent to be known as of his own will as well as authorship...