BIB_ID
211782
Accession number
MA 1850.1-6
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1816-1832.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
6 items (22 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
This collection, MA 1850, is comprised of five autograph letters signed and one autograph letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to James Gillman, Anne Harding Gillman and James Gillman, Jr., written from November 10, 1816 through January 10, 1832.
These letters are 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.
The letters were originally accompanied by short summaries in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge. These summaries have been removed and are housed in the Collection File.
These letters are 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.
The letters were originally accompanied by short summaries in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge. These summaries have been removed and are housed in the Collection File.
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
Being a collection of autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to James Gillman, his wife and his son; comprising 3 autograph letters signed to James Gillman, 1 autograph letter signed and one autograph letter to Anne Harding Gillman, and one autograph letter signed to James Gillman, Jr. Letters in the collection have been described individually in six separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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