Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, place not identified, to Robert Southey, 1795 January : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
415101
Accession number: 
MA 1848.15
Author: 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Created: 
Place not identified, 1795 January.
Credit: 
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description: 
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.2 x 16.7 cm
Notes: 

The letter is undated and there are no postmarks. In the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs argues that it was probably written in mid-January 1795, based on other letters by Coleridge and Southey from this period. See the published edition of Coleridge's correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
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: "Robert Southey / to be delivered to him on his / coming out of the Bath Coach."

Summary: 

Telling him to "Come to me at the Angel Inn, Angel Street, St Martin's le grand, Newgate Street"; adding "I am not glad that you are come to town -- and yet I am glad"; explaining "It was total Want of Cash that prevented my Expedition --."

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.