BIB_ID
415166
Accession number
MA 1849.41
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, 1812 April 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18.7 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 and remnants of a wafer to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Date of writing from postmark. The letter appears to have been written from London.
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 and remnants of a wafer to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Date of writing from postmark. The letter appears to have been written from London.
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
Informing her of his delayed arrival due to being ill along the way; expressing his great distress that Mr. Morgan did not receive the Draft he sent him for 50£ and relating what he thinks must have gone wrong; saying "I am pretty well - tho' the agitation, I am suffering, does not improve my penmanship. - I declare to God, I would have lost an arm rather than Morgan should have suffered the Distress of mind & uneasiness, which he has done - So help me God! as I hereby vow that I will hereafter never have any thing to do with any other Money than that I have actually in my possession - I have seen Gale & Curtis - all goes on well there - they are in great hopes respecting my Work - but I really can write no more till to morrow;" adding, in a postscript, instructions from Mrs. Morgan for Southey regarding spoons; saying "as Table Spoons are generally used for Soup, she supposed that Southey would not wish the Desert [sic] spoons made larger than the usual Size - she thinks, it would have an awkward Look - Mr. & Mrs. M. think it would look much handsomer to have the Motto over & not under the black S. - The fashion too is to have the Motto over, not under, the Cypher or Letter. - All is well - attribute the beginning Sentence to my agitation."
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