This collection, MA 1855, is comprised of thirteen autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients, written from August 5, 1794 through March 1, 1832. The recipients include Derwent and Hartley Coleridge, William Hart Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Thomas Poole and Dorothy Wordsworth.
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 "Mr. T. Poole."
Docketed.
Coleridge dates the letter "Tuesday Evening." The date used for the letter is from the published letter cited below.
Relating news of his work and health; saying "...I am alive, & Stowey-sick...I am translating three manuscript Plays of Schiller - & positively for the last week have worked with my pen in my hand 14 hours every day. - Hartley is quite well - Sara better - I middling - I heard from Wordsworth - he is well & happy;" asking that he send him some "loose Papers" from "a little Deal Box in your little Room;" adding "My report of Pitt's speech made a great noise here - What a degraded Animal Man is to see any thing to admire in that wretched Rant - !"