BIB_ID
415068
Accession number
MA 1848.10
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England?, 1794 December 9.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives "Tuesday Evening" for the day of writing, and the address panel has a postmark of 1794 December 9. In 1794, December 9th fell on a Tuesday. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Coleridge does not list a place of writing, but in the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs suggests that this letter was probably written in London.
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 / No 8 / Westgate Buildings / Bath."
Coleridge does not list a place of writing, but in the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs suggests that this letter was probably written in London.
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 / No 8 / Westgate Buildings / Bath."
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
Telling Southey "I never feel anger -- still less retain resentment -- but I should be a monster, if there had risen in my heart even a propensity to either towards you, whose conduct has been regulated by affection --. I wish my heart was more worthy of your esteem"; acknowledging receipt of Southey's poetry, "which will be of no pecuniary service to me; but, I hope, to receive a remittance from Cambridge within a day or two -- and then I will set off for Bristol -- though I find, they are making a row about me at Jesus" (referring to Jesus College); dismissing the idea of Wales as a site for Pantisocracy and stating "We must go to America, if we can get Money enough"; responding to the charge that he has neglected an unnamed individual (Sara Fricker): "I have written 5 or 4 letters since my absence -- received one. I am not conscious of having injured her otherwise, than by having mistaken the ebullience of schematism for affection, which a moment's reflection might have told me, is not a plant of so mushroom a growth"; referring to his "prior attachment" and calling his life "a series of Blunders"; saying that the first letter he wrote to Sara Fricker was "the most criminal action of my Life": "I had worked myself to such a pitch, that I scarcely knew I was writing like an hypocrite"; adding "it still remains for me to be externally Just though my Heart is withered within me -- and Life seems to give me disgust rather than pain"; sending his love to Southey's mother, to Edith Fricker and "to whomever it is right or convenient."
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