BIB_ID
211642
Accession number
MA 1857.5
Creator
Coleridge, Edward, 1800-1883.
Display Date
Eton, England, 1836 June 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.7 x 11.3 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 "Robert Southey Esq're / Greta Hall. / Keswick."
Year of writing from notes to this letter, in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge, on a folder which originally enclosed this letter.
The Rev. Edward Coleridge was a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was the youngest son of Colonel James Coleridge of Heath's Court, Ottery, St. Mary.
Edward Coleridge was a graduate of Eton College and of Oxford University in 1822. He was named an Assistant Master at Eton in 1824, a position he would hold until 1850 when he was named Lower Master until 1857 and then a Fellow at Eton College from 1857 to 1882.
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 "Robert Southey Esq're / Greta Hall. / Keswick."
Year of writing from notes to this letter, in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge, on a folder which originally enclosed this letter.
The Rev. Edward Coleridge was a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was the youngest son of Colonel James Coleridge of Heath's Court, Ottery, St. Mary.
Edward Coleridge was a graduate of Eton College and of Oxford University in 1822. He was named an Assistant Master at Eton in 1824, a position he would hold until 1850 when he was named Lower Master until 1857 and then a Fellow at Eton College from 1857 to 1882.
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
Asking if he would "...show some slight attention to an old, odd, but very intelligent & warm-hearted Pupil of mine, called Henry Herbert...I do not wish you to trouble yourself about him; but to do any thing you can, without self-annoyance, to please him. The last accounts I received of you and yours from Henry were cheering. God grant, that your most ardent wishes for Mrs. Southey's entire recovery may receive their completion, and that ere long your house of sorrow may be converted into a house of joy. I hear from Henry, that you meditate a descent on the Southern Coast ere long. How much, how sincerely I wish you would all come to Eton for a few days to see the beauties. Do turn this over in your mind."
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