BIB_ID
116937
Accession number
MA 1857.19
Creator
Stuart, Daniel, 1766-1846.
Display Date
London, England, 1802 September 20.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.4 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1857, includes seventeen autograph letters signed from various correspondents to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three autograph letters signed to Robert Southey, one each from Edward Coleridge, John Taylor Coleridge and Sara Fricker Coleridge and two autograph letters signed from William Wordsworth, one to Robert Southey and one to Joseph Henry Green. This collection of letters dates from 1794-1834.
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel with fragments of a seal and postmarks to "S.T. Coleridge Esq / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Stuart begins the letter on "Monday night" [September 20, 1802] and concludes it on "Thursday morning." The postmark is September 23, 1802 which was a Thursday.
Place of writing from postmarks.
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel with fragments of a seal and postmarks to "S.T. Coleridge Esq / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Stuart begins the letter on "Monday night" [September 20, 1802] and concludes it on "Thursday morning." The postmark is September 23, 1802 which was a Thursday.
Place of writing from postmarks.
Provenance
Purchased from Joanna Langlais in 1957 as a gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mr. Homer D. Crotty, Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, Mr. Robert H. Taylor and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne. Formerly in the possession of Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, Baron Latymer.
Summary
Concerning articles by Coleridge that Stuart will publish in the Morning Post; saying he will publish his "...essay on the present state of France" and he asks for the "other part" of it; discussing the shipment of books to Coleridge; discussing Edward Topham and Miles Peter Andrews; saying "Topham is stupid in his manner, but not without talent - Andrews is agreeable in his manner and has some talent also - so I have heard Topham had the World & my present House sometime before me. It was he fitted it up with the Balls & Mercury on top;" saying he would be happy to publish the essay on his "...Tour in your mountains" and saying he approves "...very much of the old Ballads & Poems & wish I had a store of them to begin;" continuing the letter "Tuesday morning" to inform him that "You'll see in this Days Paper your article on France & Rome - I wish much for the other part;" continuing Thursday morning to explain that he has been unable to finish the letter; adding "I like your Epigrams very much and I have this Day inserted a Lot of them. The remainder shall appear in a Day or two;" enclosing half of a 20£ note and telling him that once he hears that it has been safely received he will send the other half; adding, in a postscript, "no Letter from you this Day - Pray if you do not feel disposed to finish the article about France & Rome dont let that prevent you sending me any thing else;" adding, in a second postscript, "Mackintosh is going to Paris. He was yesterday introduced to the King that he may be introduced to Bona[pa]rte. Wordsworth dined with me last week. I dont know if he has left town not having seen him;" adding that his article on Rome was much admired by Mackintosh.
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