BIB_ID
415097
Accession number
MA 1849.27
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1806 September 16.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 32.6 x 19.9 cm
Notes
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 / Keswick / Cumberland."
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 / 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
Apologizing for not writing as soon as he got to Town and explaining what has occupied his time his since arrival back in England; saying "...I have had an application from the R. Institution for a Course of Lectures, which I am much disposed to accept, both for the money and reputation. - In short, I must stay in Town...But on Friday Sennight, please God! I shall quit Town / and trust to be at Keswick on Monday, September 29th. If I finally accept the Lectures, I must return by the midst of November; but propose to take you and Hartley with me, as we may be sure of Rooms either in Mr. Stuart's House at Knight's Bridge, or in the Strand. - My purpose is to divide my time steadily between my 'Reflections moral and political grounded on Information obtained during two years resident in Italy and the Mediterranean' : and the Lectures on the Principles common to all the Fine Arts. It is a terrible misfortune that so many important papers are not in my power, and that I must wait for Stoddart's care & alertness : which I am sorry to say, is not to be relied on. However, it is well that they are not at Paris; expressing his deep affection for her and their children; adding that he is still very weak from the sickness he suffered on his voyage; giving her his address in London.
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