BIB_ID
414895
Accession number
MA 1849.3
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1802 February 24.
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Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.7 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
Discussing his travel plans and the friends he has been seeing in London; saying of his proposed two years in France, "Of course, I shall not go till I have earned all the money necessary for the Journey &c - The plan will be this - unless you can think of any better. - Wordsworth will marry soon after my return; & he, Mary & Dorothy will be our companions, & neighbours / Southey means, if it is in his power, to pass into Spain that way. - About July we shall all set sail from Liverpool to Bordeaux &c - Wordsworth has not yet settled, whether he shall be married at Gallow Hill, or at Grasmere - only they will of course make a point that either Sara shall be with Mary, or Mary with Sarah / previous to so long a parting. - If it be decided, that Sarah is to come to Grasmere, I shall return by York, which will be but a few miles out of the way, & bring her;" relating news of people he has seen and what he has done in London; adding that he will return "...in Love & chearfulness, & therefore in pleasurable Convalescence, if not in Health."
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