BIB_ID
414979
Accession number
MA 1848.6
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Cambridge, England, 1794 September 26.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives "Friday Night" for the day of writing, and the address panel has a postmark of 1794 September 27. In that year and month, and given the postmark and Coleridge's other letters from this period, "Friday Night" was most probably the 26th. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Place of writing taken from the postmark.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 postmarks: "Robert Southey / Miss Tyler's / College Green / Bristol."
Place of writing taken from the postmark.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 postmarks: "Robert Southey / Miss Tyler's / College Green / Bristol."
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
Writing of how "distressed & agitated" he was by Southey's letter to Robert Favell (a friend of Coleridge's from Christ's Hospital); describing how quickly he had responded to Southey's letter of "phlogistic Rebuke" and saying that he had sent it and a letter to Sara Fricker, along with other letters, in a parcel addressed to Southey in Bath; saying that the Stourbridge Fair has begun and the Norwich Company ("the first provincial Actors in the Kingdom") is performing; adding that, against his will, he is engaged to drink tea and go to the play with "Miss Brunton" (a member of the Brunton acting family); saying that Miss Brunton and her whole family has taken to him and that her father (John Brunton, manager of the Norwich Company) has given him a free pass for the whole season; writing that the "young Lady is said to be the most literary of the beautiful, and the most beautiful of the literatæ -- It may be so -- my faculties & discernments are so compleatly jaundiced by vexation, that the Virgin Mary & Mary Flanders -- alias Moll, would appear in the same hues"; describing an evening spent in the company of "Mortlock, our Mayor -- a fellow, that would certainly be a Pantisocrat, were his head & heart as highly illuminated as his Face"; describing Mortlock's drinking habits and his "Rascalities"; writing "In the tropical Latitudes of this fellow's Nose was I obliged to fry -- I wish, you would write a lampoon upon him -- in me it would be unchristian Revenge!"; telling Southey that their Tragedy (probably "The Fall of Robespierre") is entirely printed, except for the title page, and will be completed by Saturday night; ending his letter "God love you -- I am in the queerest humour in the world -- and am out of love with every body."
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