Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, place not specified, to Sara Coleridge, 1812 February 7 : fragment of an autograph manuscript.

Record ID: 
415163
Accession number: 
MA 1849.40
Author: 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Created: 
Place not specified, 1812 February 7.
Credit: 
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description: 
1 item (1 page, with address) ; xx 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 / Cumberland."
The bottom third of the page has been cut away.

Summary: 

Giving her the details of his travel plans to go through Liverpool on his way to Keswick; apologizing for not informing of them sooner; saying "I would have written before, but that it was not till yesterday that my plans were finally settled - & such, as I hope, will please you. They will enable me not only to pay off all Keswick Debts in a few months, but to remit you £200 a year regularly, independent of Lectures;" saying he will write again from Liverpool, if he is asked to lecture there.

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.