BIB_ID
119220
Accession number
MA 1857.25
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
London, England, 1837 March 18.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; xx 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 seal to "Robert Southey Esq. / Keswick."
Date of writing from published letter cited below. Written from "Portugal Street / Saturday Morning."
Edward Quillinan married Wordsworth's daughter, Dora, in 1841.
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 seal to "Robert Southey Esq. / Keswick."
Date of writing from published letter cited below. Written from "Portugal Street / Saturday Morning."
Edward Quillinan married Wordsworth's daughter, Dora, in 1841.
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
Informing him that he and Mr. Robinson will be departing by steamboat for Calais in the morning and sending his prayers and good wishes to him and to his family; transcribing an extract of a letter from Edward Quillinan to Dora [Wordsworth] and saying "I received the letter this morning and never heard a word on the subject the passage treats of. Extract - What has Mr. Wordsworth done to that Welsh Furioso that Landor the Savage to excite his madness to such ludicrous malignity and grandiloquent vituperation. Madmen are sometimes very subtle in malice. What of his trying to blow up a flame of discord between your father and Mr. Southey! as if two such long tried friends could quarrel at this time of day about the opinion that one or the other might or might not entertain as to the value of the others poetry. Byron or Landor might give up an old friend for such a cause but Southey is too right minded to believe that W ever seriously disparaged his talents or to be very irate if he really had had the bad taste to do so. I am sorry for Mr. S. for Landor is also a very old and prized friend of his. It is remarkable with respect to L. himself, that he is the man of all the literary men of the day, Southey perhaps excepted (he forgets Coleridge or speaks perhaps only of the living) to whose ability and classical attainments, I have most frequently heard your father bear testimony, and that in the most decided manner - His wrath at Mr. Wordsworth for having plagiarized his lines about the shell is capital fun - Thus far Mr. Q. and not a word of all this did I ever see or hear of before - / farewell again & again."
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