BIB_ID
119931
Accession number
MA 1857.22
Creator
Welles, A., active 1803.
Display Date
London, England, 1803 September 1.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.0 x 20.3 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 to "Mr. Coleridge / Keswick / Cumberland."
Written from "18. London Wall / London" with a postscript giving his address after Michaelmas as "44. Upper Titchfield Street."
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 to "Mr. Coleridge / Keswick / Cumberland."
Written from "18. London Wall / London" with a postscript giving his address after Michaelmas as "44. Upper Titchfield Street."
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 Coleridge's gout; saying he had received a letter from Dr. Beddoes informing him that Coleridge was suffering from gout; saying "he need not have added that you wished to be cured - for I should have supposed it. I have in my possession a kind of Nectar (for it removes pain, & of course promotes pleasure - & may in the end immortalize me.) which I freely offer to you. I will further add the prediction, founded on experience, that you may be relieved from the gout, & your general health improved into the bargain;" suggesting that Coleridge consult with Sir Wilfred Lawson and Thomas Wyndham about their experiences with the remedy; adding "And if you should then wish to try this remedy & will give me a particular detail of your gouty affections, & general habits of life, I will immediately send you the medicine with such directions as, I believe, will not fail to bring about the desired effect."
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