BIB_ID
414892
Accession number
MA 1849.2
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1802 February 19.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.8 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1849, is comprised of forty-six autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his wife, Sara Coleridge, written between 1802 and 1824.
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 with postmark to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
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 with postmark to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
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
Relating news of his time in London and of mutual friends; saying he had dinner with Southey and became quite ill but was better in the morning and his health continues to improve; telling her he hopes to be back at Keswick by March 7th and gives her details of who he will see in London before he leaves town; relating news of [Thomas Richard] Underwood whom he refers to as "Little Subligno;" proposing that they live for two years in France; saying "What do you say to a two years' Residence at Montpellier - under blue skies & in a rainless air?...But I must first work. Southey would go that way to Lisbon - & spend some months with us;" asking what he might bring home for Hartley, saying "I have puzzled my head, & cannot think of any thing that will at once delight him, & be durable. - And my sweet Derwent - ! My thin child & my fat Child; adding that if there is anything she wishes him to bring her from London she should write him.
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