BIB_ID
211870
Accession number
MA 1848.1-92
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1794-1820.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
92 items (317 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
This collection of letters between Coleridge and Southey is part of the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The Langlais Collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged as MA 1848-1857.
One item in the collection, cataloged as MA 1848.60, contains two letters, one addressed to Southey and the other to Coleridge's wife Sara. A number of Coleridge's letters to Southey are also preceded or followed by letters from Sara to her sister Edith.
Nine letters in the collection are housed separately in Unbound Oversize. They are cataloged as MA 1848.7, 1848.9, 1848.11-14, 1848.45, 1848.76, and 1848.83.
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.
One item in the collection, cataloged as MA 1848.60, contains two letters, one addressed to Southey and the other to Coleridge's wife Sara. A number of Coleridge's letters to Southey are also preceded or followed by letters from Sara to her sister Edith.
Nine letters in the collection are housed separately in Unbound Oversize. They are cataloged as MA 1848.7, 1848.9, 1848.11-14, 1848.45, 1848.76, and 1848.83.
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 92 autograph letters signed, to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1820 from Cambridge, Edinburgh, Keswick, London, Nether Stowey, and several other locations in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as from Malta and at sea: discussing their friendship through the years, the development and collapse of Pantisocracy, his marriage to Sara Coleridge, the intertwined lives of the Southey and Coleridge families, his health, his addiction, his literary and personal relationship with Wordsworth, the writing of major works of poetry, interactions with publishers and editors, his journalistic work and his lectures on literature and philosophy, the creation of the periodical "The Friend," and numerous political and literary matters. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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