BIB_ID
415165
Accession number
MA 1848.21
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Nether Stowey, England, 1797 September 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 20.1 x 15.9 cm
Notes
The first two pages of this item consist of a letter from Charles Lloyd to Southey, written from Nether Stowey and dated "Friday morning." In it, Lloyd says that Thomas and John Wedgwood will arrive tomorrow at Alfoxden, where he is also going, in order to hear Wordsworth read a tragedy. In the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs argues that this timeline means the letter was probably written on September 15, 1797. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Robert Southey / No 8 West-Gate buildings / Bath."
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Robert Southey / No 8 West-Gate buildings / Bath."
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
Describing Southey's poem "Hannah" as "to me the most affecting of all your little pieces"; begging him not to alter the final part of the poem; quoting lines from the poem and making detailed criticisms and suggestions; pointing out an ambiguous phrase.
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