BIB_ID
415076
Accession number
MA 1849.20
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1804 March 27.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 18.2 cm
Notes
With an order for payment in Sara Coleridge's hand on page 3 and dated Keswick, October 26, requesting £50 to be paid to Robert Southey and placed in her account. The order is addressed to Messrs. Davison, Noel, Templer & Co / Pall Mall / London and is written per instructions by Coleridge in this letter.
Written from the "Courier office, Tuesday Afternoon, 1/2 past 2."
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 postmarks to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick."
Written from the "Courier office, Tuesday Afternoon, 1/2 past 2."
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 postmarks 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 his ill health and his plan to sail from Portsmouth on the 30th; giving her details of whom she should direct requests for money (Davison, Noel, Templer, Middleton, Johnson & Wedgwood) and telling her "You have an 100£ to draw this year - which you will draw whenever you like it or want it / - Perhaps it would be as well to draw for 50£ a time, at least / as it will be right for you...;" adding that she "... must not draw for more than the 60£ on Stuart / as I have been obliged to take up the 20£ - so many petty expences have accumulated / for example - a pair of green Spectacles & Case, 21 Shillings, a Hat, 26S, Boots, 36S, Medicines, Spirits, Servants, &c &c;" adding, in a postscript, "Do not be uneasy about money. If you want more, you shall have more."
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