Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, St. Clear's, Carmarthen, to Sara Coleridge, 1802 November 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
414898
Accession number: 
MA 1849.5
Author: 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Created: 
St. Clears, Wales, 1802 November 21.
Credit: 
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.6 x 18.6 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.

Summary: 

Concerning his travel plans and his health; saying he is going to visit Mrs. Wedgwood's father, Mr. Allen and "...my Health continues to improve / & if I remain tranquil, I may return to you, a new Creation;" adding that Tom Wedgwood has "...borrowed from me the money, I had saying - that is was impossible, we could have any but joint expences;" sending his love and reminding her "... not to let Derwent & Hartley have any Tea. Milk & water equally hot - & they won't know the difference. A weak Ginger Tea would certainly be useful to Hartley's Bowels."

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.