BIB_ID
415117
Accession number
MA 1849.32
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1806 October 9.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.7 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."
Coleridge dates the letter simply "Thursday." The postmark is October 9, 1806 and October 9 was a Thursday.
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."
Coleridge dates the letter simply "Thursday." The postmark is October 9, 1806 and October 9 was a Thursday.
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
Explaining his continuing delay in returning to Keswick; saying he has recovered a portion of the books he thought he had lost on his return from Malta; adding that he intends to go to Parndon that afternoon and from there make his way to Keswick; saying "This continual off & on has injured my Health, & almost drain'd my purse. - I have at length agreed to lecture at the Royal Institution on the Principles common to the Fine Arts; & am to receive 120£ for the course - I am in some hopes that (if not now) yet in another year I may be able to join on to this a Lectureship of more Importance at the London Institution. The opportunity of giving Hartley opportunities of Instruction, he would not otherwise have, weighs a great deal with me;" asking her, in a postscript, to tell Southey "...that I enjoy his fair fame like a breeze on my own feverish Forehead. Indeed, his reputation is so high as to deserve the name of Fame / Malthus has just published an appendix in answer to his Review - he told Mrs. Smith, that he had attributed the Review to Mrs. Bare-bald, but now found it was Mr. Southey. He praised the power of the review, but abominated it's temper;" asking her if Southey saw the similarities between Scott's "Lay" [of the Last Minstrel] and Christabel and saying "I have not read the L. myself; but at least half a dozen (among others Davy, Lamb, Mrs. Clarkson, Miss Smith) have mentioned it to me. I do not believe it."
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