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Excerpt from Letters From the Lake Poets, Vol. 8: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey
For the next twenty years he enjoyed almost uninterrupted good health and activity of mind and body, until in November, 1842, the terrible and sudden shock which he received at the news of the death of his eldest son (a Lieutenant in the 33rd Regiment) from yellow fever, in the West Indies, at once aged him, and broke him down. His health gradually declined until the intense heat of the summer of 1846 brought on an attack of dysentery, which his constitution had no longer the strength to resist, and, after several weeks' illness, he breathed his last, August 25, in his eightieth year.
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