BIB_ID
415040
Accession number
MA 1849.15
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1804 January.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20.9 x 16.6 cm
Notes
The published letter cited below dates the letter to early January 1804.
Pages 1 and 2 have been torn away, however a footnote to the published letter cited below suggests "This fragment...must have been written during Coleridge's stay at Grasmere, a visit prolonged by ill health and bad weather from 20 December 1803 to 14 January 1804."
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."
Pages 1 and 2 have been torn away, however a footnote to the published letter cited below suggests "This fragment...must have been written during Coleridge's stay at Grasmere, a visit prolonged by ill health and bad weather from 20 December 1803 to 14 January 1804."
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."
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 paintings that he asks her to take care in packing and sending; instructing her not to "...send the rude Sketches of my Face, nor Hartley / the Latter belongs to the Wordsworths, party as an Equivalent for my portrait, & partly, as a something [for] the money he & I - (he 3 guineas) have payed - Both William & Dorothy had been planning to get this picture, & it certainly almost belongs to them, & must be their's - yet in many respects it would have been highly gratifying to my Feelings to have presented it to Mr. Jackson & to Mrs. Wilson / or to speak more accurately - it is positively painful to me not to do so - but the Right both in blunt & in delicate feeling is clearly theirs. - As to that rude Sketch of my Face, up in the upper Book room Garret, if you have no wish for it, & if on her coming into the Country Sara Hutchinson should be at all pleased with it, as a rude Sketch of me, it would gratify me that she should have it;" asking if Southey is able to spare some ink and if she could also send "...the Quills on my Mantle piece in the Study, & those on the Table &c;" sending his love to Southey.
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