BIB_ID
414952
Accession number
MA 1849.10
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Narberth, Wales 1802 December 16.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.4 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.
Address panel with postmark to "Mrs. Coleridge or Mr. Jackson / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
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 or Mr. Jackson / 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
Expressing his concern for her; saying "I write with trembling - at what time or in what state my Letter may find you, how can I tell? Small need is there for saying, how anxious I am, how full of terrors & prayers! I trust in God, that this Letter, which I write with a palpitating heart, you will read with a chearful one - the new Baby at your breast;" relating his detailed itinerary as he leaves Crescelly to travel 346 miles to Keswick; giving instructions for Mrs. Wilson to prepare for having Tom Wedgwood as their guest when they arrive and telling her that Wedgwood "...will not stay above a day or two in Keswick - & for God's sake, do not let [him] be any weight or bustle on your mind - let him be entirely Mr. Jackson's - & let a Girl from the town come up for the time, he stays...But above all, Mr. Jackson will be so good as immediately to write a Line, to be left for me at the Post Office, Kendal - informing me, how you are - and of all, I am to know...Mrs. Wilson will be so good as to procure a pound or so of the best salt potted Butter - which Mr. T. Wedgewood [sic] likes."
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