BIB_ID
286692
Accession number
MA 642.14
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
1826 July 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 16 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his nephew, Edward Coleridge, a Master at Eton. Letters are described in 16 individual records (MA 642.1-16).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from Agnew.
Summary
Describing his recent illness: "the excessive Heat was, I doubt not, the principal exciting cause: tho' anxiety and intestine Conflict have been accessories"; noting that his daughter is arriving and is in mourning for her cousin Isabel; admitting that he "had no suspicion of any serious attachment" between his daughter Sara and her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge; giving his opinion on this attachment and asking Edward "not to breathe even a hint of what [he has] written"; responding to Edward's last letter by describing his current state of mind and the work he is undertaking.
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