BIB_ID
415065
Accession number
MA 1849.16
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1804 January 25.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Written from "16, Abingdon Street, Westminster / Wednesday afternoon." The day of writing is unclear however Wednesday was the 25th and the postmark on the part of the letter that was torn off and delivered to Southey is January 25, 1804. The letter to Southey is described separately in a subset of this Coleridge collection as MA 1848.64. MA 1848 is a collection of letters from Coleridge to Robert Southey.
The top portion of page 3, which appears to be about six lines, has been cut away as has the bottom half of pages 3 and 4 per instructions from Coleridge to Sara to "Tear off the latter Scrap below, & give it to Southey."
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."
The top portion of page 3, which appears to be about six lines, has been cut away as has the bottom half of pages 3 and 4 per instructions from Coleridge to Sara to "Tear off the latter Scrap below, & give it to Southey."
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
Discussing his ill health and saying he is becoming more convinced that it is not gout; commenting on their relationship saying "We will try hard, my dearest Friend! that the severest Judge shall be able to detect no other Evil in us, than the - misfortune, I trust, rather than Evil, of being unsuited to each other;" relating details of his arrival in London; asking Sara to "write to me as gladsomely, as you can : for O! my children, my children! - they & other things make me so sensitive & sore! - one who shrinks from a Touch, as feeling, that even a Touch might pass into agony / - but I shall grow firmer & manlier;" asking her to tear off the "latter Scrap below & give it to Southey."
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