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.
The remaining pages of the letter are missing.
Apologizing for his delay in opening her letter and replying; relating, in detail, the activities that have taken up his time each day from Sunday, May 1st through to the day he is writing, Thursday, May 5th; adding "Now, my dear! I leave you to judge whether I can do more than I do - having besides all this to prepare William's Poem for the Press. I shall put a full stop to all this in a few days - Your anecdote of little Sara is not only deeply affecting to me, as a Father; but exceedingly interesting to me as a philosopher;" enclosing a letter from Mrs. Skepper to Hartley.