BIB_ID
415159
Accession number
MA 1849.38
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1810 April 14.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.8 x 11.6 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 wafer to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick" with a note, which may be in the hand of Mrs. Coleridge "nice note written just before the publication of the 'friend".
Place of writing inferred from the content of the letter. Date of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below.
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 wafer to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick" with a note, which may be in the hand of Mrs. Coleridge "nice note written just before the publication of the 'friend".
Place of writing inferred from the content of the letter. Date of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below.
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
Referring to De Quincey's visit to Keswick and his own desire to spend time with her and Sara; saying "I understand, that Mr. De Quincey is going to Keswick tomorrow : tho' between ourselves, he is as great a To-morrower to the full as your poor Husband, & without his excuses of anxiety from latent Disease and external Pressure. - Now as Lieutenant Southey is with you, I fear, that you could not find a bed for me if I came in on Monday or Tuesday - I not only am desirous to be with you & Sara for a while, but it would be of great importance to me to be within a Post of Penrith for the next fortnight or 3 weeks...I am middling; but the state of my Spirit of itself requires a change of scene. Catherine W. has not recovered the use of her arm &c; but is evidently recovering it, and in all other respects in better health than before - indeed, so much better as to confirm my former opinion, that Nature was weak in her, and can more easily supply vital power for two thirds of her nervous system, than for the whole;" adding, in a postscript, comments on Derwent and Hartley and how well Hartley is doing with his German.
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