BIB_ID
128864
Accession number
MA 1857.3
Creator
Beaumont, George Howland, Sir, 1753-1827.
Display Date
Penrith, England, 1803 August.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.4 x 18.9 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 "S.T. Coleridge Esq're / Greta Hall / Keswick."
Place of writing from postmark which stamps it "Penrith." Date of writing from a letter from Coleridge to Sir George and Lady Beaumont, which the published version of the letter dates to August 13, 1803, in which Coleridge sends a transcription of a fragment of "Dejection" in the hand of Dorothy Wordsworth (see MA 1581.25). This letter appears to have been written shortly after the receipt of the transcription of the poems.
The top portion of pages 1 and 2 has been cut away.
The reference to Applethwaite in this letter is to the purchase of a piece of land in Applethwaite by Sir George Beaumont in 1803 for William Wordsworth in order that he and his family might build a house there and thus live close to the Coleridges who were then at Greta Hall, Keswick.
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 "S.T. Coleridge Esq're / Greta Hall / Keswick."
Place of writing from postmark which stamps it "Penrith." Date of writing from a letter from Coleridge to Sir George and Lady Beaumont, which the published version of the letter dates to August 13, 1803, in which Coleridge sends a transcription of a fragment of "Dejection" in the hand of Dorothy Wordsworth (see MA 1581.25). This letter appears to have been written shortly after the receipt of the transcription of the poems.
The top portion of pages 1 and 2 has been cut away.
The reference to Applethwaite in this letter is to the purchase of a piece of land in Applethwaite by Sir George Beaumont in 1803 for William Wordsworth in order that he and his family might build a house there and thus live close to the Coleridges who were then at Greta Hall, Keswick.
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 his appreciation for the transcription of the poems and in particular his love of the lines from "Dejection;" saying "I delight in the lines on dejection, were I to tell you what they make me feel it would seem like fulsome flattery & I hope you will recover the remainder. I more & more admire the beginning of the Leechgatherer..;" referring to the purchase of Applethwaite as "...being in the possession of your friend (Wordsworth], I am not sure even you would not envy me - long very long may you live in that blessed vale together till not a 'mountain rears its head unsung' around you.' It is quite delightful to witness the harmony, kindness of heart, & ardent desire to communicate pleasure which prevails in this family - they are models & worthy of the place - We are this morning going to Ulswater & we shall think of you all. I am so much interested in your intended tour that I hope it will not be long before I hear how it agrees with you - take care you do not fatigue yourself - mind what you eat & drink, - shut up your book between nine & ten at night, & go to bed like a good boy;" adding, in a postscripts, details of his schedule for the next few weeks.
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