BIB_ID
415162
Accession number
MA 1849.39
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1810 April 29.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.5 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.
Place and date of writing from footnote to the published letter cited below.
A note, in an unknown hand, at the top of the first page says "pleasing account of Derwents scholarship."
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.
Place and date of writing from footnote to the published letter cited below.
A note, in an unknown hand, at the top of the first page says "pleasing account of Derwents scholarship."
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
Giving reasons for why he did not go to Keswick; relating details of Derwent's academic progress in Greek and theology; saying "I assure you, Derwent is a very clever Boy - the rapidity, with which he reads & comprehends, is extraordinary. In the course of three days he read three plays & half of a fourth, of Massinger - tho' he was with me only in the Afternoon & Evening - and he gave a very intelligent account of the story & characters of each. - May God turn it to good account! It is now time for us to begin to think of Hartley - as to profession or trade - It is my present intention to be with you on Tuesday next - but if I am not in at Breakfast time (i.e. 9 or 10 o/clock) I shall not be in till supper - as I shall set off either at 5 in the morning - or at 4 in the Afternoon...I am pretty middling except the dreadful weight on my spirits, which is greater than I would wish my worse enemy to be able to conceive."
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