BIB_ID
415155
Accession number
MA 1849.37
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1810 February 19.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.2 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 / Greta Hall / Keswick". Written on the address panel, in an unknown hand, "naughty Hartley, for writing on your papa's letter!" and in a very large, child's hand, "Amadis and palmerene" with a second line that is illegible.
The place of writing inferred from the content. Coleridge was living at Allan Bank with the Wordsworths in February 1810. The date of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below.
A footnote to the published letter cited below indicates that a note under Coleridge's signature, "Little Herbert Southey, who died at 10 years old", is in the hand of Mrs. Coleridge.
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 / Greta Hall / Keswick". Written on the address panel, in an unknown hand, "naughty Hartley, for writing on your papa's letter!" and in a very large, child's hand, "Amadis and palmerene" with a second line that is illegible.
The place of writing inferred from the content. Coleridge was living at Allan Bank with the Wordsworths in February 1810. The date of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below.
A footnote to the published letter cited below indicates that a note under Coleridge's signature, "Little Herbert Southey, who died at 10 years old", is in the hand of Mrs. Coleridge.
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
Relating news of the arrival of John Monkhouse, Hartley and Derwent activities and a conversation between Hartley and Thomas DeQuincey; describing Monkhouse's accident saying "Mr. John Monkhouse arrived on Wednesday Night, with a frightful cut in his chin and (we suspect) a fractured Jaw, from his Horse's Hoof, as he was walking beside his Horse between this House & the Blacksmith's Shop. He is going on well - wonderfully so - but it will confine him a fortnight at least...Mr. DeQuincey asked Hartley, if they had quarrelled for the last week - 'Why, we had one rather violent difference - it was a dispute between Derwent and me on the present state of Agriculture in France. I am very sorry for it - but indeed Derwent is very tyrannical in his arguing.' The stumpy Canary!! [Derwent] - Venerable State-Economists! What a strange world we live in! and what a quaint Brace of Doglets these Striplings of our's are!...I am not well - more than usually weak and languid - but it lies most in my spirits. I do my best to fight up against them; but indeed bad spirits are a heavier affliction, than folks in general suppose;" asking her to tell Southey he would like an Annual Register for 1800 and if he has one would he send it by the next Courier and he will return it the following week; adding that he is hoping to walk to Greta Hall when he finishes Numbers 2 and 3 [of the Friend]; sending his best wishes to Robert Lovell and saying he "...should be most happy to do any thing better, that is in my power - by sharing any expences, as soon as ever my chin is above water in the Friend Line. Love to all - & kisses, if he will let you, to that darling little Rotondello [Herbert Southey] whom I more often think of than of any of his sort and standing in Christendom. He is indeed a very, a remarkably engaging child."
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