BIB_ID
414937
Accession number
MA 1849.9
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Narberth, Wales, 1802 December 13.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 25.4 x 20.0 cm
Notes
Written on "Monday, Dec. 13, 1802 - Morning, 8 o/clock."
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 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."
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
Concerning his return to Keswick; saying he expects to "...be eight Days at least in the Journey - so that we cannot be there before Christmas Day - it is my intention, as you will then be confined, to leave T. Wedgewood [sic] at Clarkson's. But all this may all happen differently -!...I hope that Sara Hutchinson is well enough to have come in - it would be a great comfort, that one or the other of the three Women at Grasmere should be with you - & Sara rather than the other two because you will hardly have another opportunity of having her by yourself & to yourself, & of learning to know her, such as she really is. How much this lies at my Heart with respect to the Wordsworths, & Sara, and how much of our common Love & Happiness depends on your loving those whom I love, - why should I repeat? - I am confident, my dear Love! that I have no occasion to repeat it. Considering how long I have been here, & how without a single Interruption I have continued for three weeks to think of you with love & tenderness, & that this, I regard, as an omen of the Future - I should like the child to be called Crescelly - purely on the account I have stated - I will write again to morrow - My dearest Love! with 10 thousand wishes & fervent prayers for you."
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