Coleridge gives only "Thursday" for the day of writing, but the letter has a postmark of September 11, 1794. In 1794, September 11th fell on a Thursday. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 100 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-100).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel with postmark: "Robert Southey / No 8 / Westcott Buildings / Bath."
Discussing the details of printing and the potential sales of a tragedy (probably "The Fall of Robespierre," written jointly by Coleridge and Southey); mentioning making certain changes to the last two acts, as suggested by George Dyer; asking how many copies Southey would like sent to Bristol; explaining that he has been unwell for the past two days and this has delayed his departure for Cambridge: "I am rather better -- but still heavy of head, turbulent of Bowell, and inappetent"; saying that he hears that the list of subscribers for the proposed Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets includes "the names of [Samuel] Parr, [John] Disney, [Theophilus] Lindsay, [Gilbert] Wakefield, and [William Lisle] Bowles -- two Bishops, and 4 Lords!!"; referring to some friends and saying "I long to be at Cambridge -- detesting this vile city"; writing "Tell Mrs Southey, I had the Night Mair last night -- I dreamt (vision of terrors!) that she refused to go to America!"; asking Southey to "say all the friendly things" to Robert Lovell and his wife Mary; continuing the letter in an extended postscript; saying that Samuel Le Grice has gotten into trouble for the conclusion to a speech of thanks he made to the Governors of Christ's Hospital; giving the offending lines in Latin; writing of William Godwin that he "thinks himself inclined to Atheism -- acknowledges there are arguments for Deity, he cannot answer -- but not so many, as against his Existence"; adding "I set him at Defiance -- tho' if he convinces me, I will acknowledge it in a letter in the Newspapers"; saying that Bishop Horsley "is believed in the higher Circles and by all the world of Authors to be -- a determined Deist. -- What a villain, if is true!"