BIB_ID
415125
Accession number
MA 1849.36
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1808 September 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 26.9 x 19.6 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 seal to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / To be left at / Miss Crosthwaite's."
Date of writing from published letter cited below which dates it "circa 15 September". The place of writing inferred from the contents and a letter written the following day in which he gives the place of writing as Allan Bank, Grasmere.
The first two pages of the manuscript are missing.
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 seal to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / To be left at / Miss Crosthwaite's."
Date of writing from published letter cited below which dates it "circa 15 September". The place of writing inferred from the contents and a letter written the following day in which he gives the place of writing as Allan Bank, Grasmere.
The first two pages of the manuscript are missing.
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
Beginning with a fragment of a sentence saying "...lie suspended till my Health & Constitution are fairly established - the Interval will be employed as much for your benefit, as for my own: I am sure, I think far more of you than of myself;" comment on sweet Sara is, how well Mrs. Wordsworth is looking and sending his love to Hartley and Derwent; sending his blessings to her and asking if she might "...make a pair or two of Drawers for the thighs and seat of / Your affectionate Friend & Husband;" adding, in a postscript, that everyone there sends their love and "Little Dorothy and Sara make a most amusing Contrast - S. so lady-fairy like, & Dorothy sic a wild one; but so pretty, especially when she is naughty - i.e. some twice in e[very] ... But she is so droll!"
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