BIB_ID
415067
Accession number
MA 1849.17
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1804 February 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 26.8 x 18.8 cm
Notes
The first and second pages of the letter are missing.
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
Referring to William Godwin and an incident which appears to have been precipitated by Coleridge's drinking; saying he may go to Dunmow "...there I shall have quiet & will write both to you & to dear Southey;" instructing her to take whatever money is sent to her and pay all their debts at Keswick; commenting on Hazlitt's portrait of Hartley saying "Hazlitt never meant Hartley for any but for me / he says / I wish, I wish, I could get a Portrait of myself for the Wordsworths - & give Hartley's to Mr. Jackson & Mrs. Wilson / I cannot bear to send it away from them / - You cannot conceive how much & often this is in my Thoughts - for without gratitude what would become of us - Tell Southey, I really long for a whole quiet Evening in order to be with him in Spirit by a spacious letter."
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