BIB_ID
414920
Accession number
MA 1849.8
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Narberth, Wales, 1802 December 5.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.1 x 20.1 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.
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.
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
Enclosing a draft for £50 with instructions on how it is to be paid out; suggesting names for the baby; saying "Don't you think, Crescelly Coleridge, would be a pretty name for a Boy? - If a Girl, let it be Gretha Coleridge - not Greta - but - Gretha - unless you prefer Rotha - or Laura. What do you think of Bridget? - Only it ought to end with a vowel. You may take your choice of Sara, Gretha, or rather Algretha, Rotha, Laura, Emily or Lovenna. - The Boy must be either Bracey, or Crescelly. - Algretha Coleridge will needs be a beautiful Girl;" adding, in a postscript, "For God's sake don't let the expence weigh with you about a Nurse. You ought to think of a Servant. I hope Sara Hutchinson will be well enough to come in, while you are lying in / both she & Mary Wordsworth are good Nurses."
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