BIB_ID
414919
Accession number
MA 1849.7
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Narberth, Wales, 1802 December 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 25.5 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Written on "Saturday Night."
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 and fragments of a seal to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
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 and fragments of a seal 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
Apologizing for the delay in getting money to her but telling her it is important she hire a nurse and he will send £50 in the next two days; relating Tom Wedgwood's travel plans and saying he hopes to be in Keswick by New Year's Day "...tho' possibly I may be obliged to leave you again for two or three months -. But the Future is a Cloud;" telling her how comfortable it is at Cresselly;" saying "Save when I think of home, my mind is calm & soundless. Sally Wedgewood plays on the Piano Forte divinely - Warm Rooms, warm Bedrooms, Music, pleasant Talking, & extreme Temperance - all this agrees with me - & the best Blessing, that results from all, is a placid Sleep - no difficulties in my Dreams, no Pains;" describing the other people in the house who are related to Mr. Allen; sending his love.
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