BIB_ID
128815
Accession number
MA 1857.1
Creator
Beaumont, George Howland, Sir, 1753-1827.
Display Date
Penrith, England, 1803 August 13.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.7 x 20.1 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 "Samuel Coleridge Esq're."
It appears that the reference to the "dislike of a certain person" is to Samuel Rogers whom Coleridge complains about to Sir George Beaumont in a letter written to him the previous day, August 12, 1803 (see MA 1581.24).
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 "Samuel Coleridge Esq're."
It appears that the reference to the "dislike of a certain person" is to Samuel Rogers whom Coleridge complains about to Sir George Beaumont in a letter written to him the previous day, August 12, 1803 (see MA 1581.24).
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
Expressing relief at hearing from him and easing their fears that he was ill; discussing the "dislike of a certain person;" saying "...it gives us no uneasiness - if the bards of nature whose hearts are warmed by the spirit of the mountain breeze, & whose free minds are bounded only by space are in any degree partial to us, we think it of little consequence what the inland bardlings of alleys & corners may think - there is no room in such places for the heart to strike its root, they are in fact basso relievos & it would be madness to expect they should expand. I had I must confess however a different idea of his character till you described him to me : but I never was in his company above four or five times at most;" saying how much he is looking forward to the verse transcriptions that Miss Wordsworth will be sending him and expressing his uncertainty as to whether Coleridge should go on his Scottish tour; saying that though he believes the tour would do Coleridge some good "...I shall be sorry to find you removed to such a distance as Malta or Madeira, yet I think if I were convinced it would be for your good I have honesty enough to recommend it - One thing I wish I had authority enough to enforce, & then in spite of all your murmurings, I would make you take exercise & read & write in the day, & sleep by night. You must, indeed you must change your system, or you never will recover your health, in any part of the world, & with care I have little doubt you might enjoy it in England. - I am much pleased to hear Mr. Wordsworth & you liked the sketches, rude as they are, but I am confident minds like yours will always be pleased to have much left to the imagination."
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