BIB_ID
415099
Accession number
MA 1849.28
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1806 September 26.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20.3 x 16.1 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 / returned from / Malta, & coming to Keswick."
Written on "Friday Afternoon." Month and day of writing inferred from contents.
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 / returned from / Malta, & coming to Keswick."
Written on "Friday Afternoon." Month and day of writing inferred from contents.
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 her he has been delayed, expects to leave London on Monday night "...but I greatly dread travelling two nights, my legs and ancles swell so;" adding, in a postscript, that he had just received a letter from Lord & Lady Holland but it will not detain him.
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