BIB_ID
131994
Accession number
MA 1857.13
Creator
Moore, Nathaniel Montgomery, fl. 1803.
Display Date
Exeter, England, 1803 July 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 25.2 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 with postmark to "S.T. Coleridge Esq / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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 postmark to "S.T. Coleridge Esq / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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 the sale of his Jaunting Car to Coleridge; saying "it is much at your Service. I wish I was able to do as my Heart would dictate. is it worth £15 - that I often refused. deduct from it what you please - I paid Duty for it as for a Gig. A Sale between you and me is very repugnant to my Feelings, but small as my Remittances were from Ireland, the War has already affected them, but I find myself so comfortably settled here that after a little Time I hope not to feel that so much. I am sorry a Journey to Scotland is necessary for Health. I would much rather recommend one towards your native Air both for you and Mrs. Coleridge...I shall have Pleasure in knowing that you receive benefit from your Excursion but still recommend Devonshire to you rather than the North;" including, after Moore's signature, a letter to Mrs. Coleridge, addressed simply "My Dear Friend" and signed with the initials M.A. D.
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