BIB_ID
415070
Accession number
MA 1849.18
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Dunmow, England, 1804 February 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.0 cm
Notes
There is a payment order on page 4, written in an unknown hand, dated Keswick, February 28, 1804 to D. Stuart, Esq're / Courier Office / Strand / London, requesting that £50 be paid to William Jackson and £50 into her account.
There is a note, in an unknown hand, in the top right corner of the address panel, "A kind letter after visiting Sir G. & Ly Beaumont."
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."
There is a note, in an unknown hand, in the top right corner of the address panel, "A kind letter after visiting Sir G. & Ly Beaumont."
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
Describing the "glowing affection" with which Sir George & Lady Beaumont have welcomed him and how much her last letter meant to him; saying "I received your letter this morning - my eyes are still red with crying over it, for Joy & tenderness & sorrow of absence / O my sweet Hartley! my darling - My own, very own Hartley! & my Stump! my pretty affectionate Derwent! - You remember, I told you that he was just in the very same way on his first arrival at Grasmere, altho' I was then with him. My very Heart is still trembling - & my very heart thanks and loves you, my dear! for your Letter - Be as minute about the Children as you can / never let any thing escape;" asking her to her to request £20 from Daniel Stuart in London, payable to Mr. Jackson: promising to "...supply you with ready money, & pay off little Bills / & in a few weeks I will leave you debtless at Keswick, debts great & small, save that which we both owe to Southey for his Vice-fathership. I have received another heart-withering Letter of absolute Despair from T. Wedgwood;" adding, in a postscript, "You told me nothing about sweet Sara / tell me every thing - send me the ve[ry] Feel of her sweet Flesh, the very Looks & Motions of that mouth / O I could drive myself mad about her!" .
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