BIB_ID
415176
Accession number
MA 1849.42
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1812 April 21.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 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 to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Written on "Tuesday" from 71, Berners' Street.
The reference to "Genevieve" is to a painting done by George Dawe in 1812 titled "Genevieve (from a poem by S.T. Coleridge entitled 'Love'."
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."
Written on "Tuesday" from 71, Berners' Street.
The reference to "Genevieve" is to a painting done by George Dawe in 1812 titled "Genevieve (from a poem by S.T. Coleridge entitled 'Love'."
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
Reporting on his health, the success of his Lectures, news of friends he has seen and dined with, a possible sale of The Friend and commenting, at length, on the talent and personality of George Dawe; reporting on his health saying "Ever since I have been in town, I have never taken any Stimulus of any kind, till the moment of my getting into bed, except a glass of British White Wine after dinner - & from 3 to 4 glasses of Port, when I have dined out. - Secondly, my Lectures have been taken up most warmly & zealously by Sir Thomas Bernard, Sir George Beaumont, Mr. Sotheby, &c - & in a few days I trust, that you will be agreeably surprized with the mode in which Sir T.B. hopes & will use his best exertions to have them announced. Thirdly, Gale & Curtis are in high Spirits & confident respecting the Sale of The Friend, & the call for a second Edition;" commenting on George Dawe and his work; saying "The Bust & the Picture from Genevieve are at the R. Academy, & already are talked of - Dawe & I will be of mutual Service to each other...He is a very modest man - his manners not over-polished - & his worst point is that he is (at least, I have found him so) a fearful Questionist - whenever he thinks, he can pick up any information, or ideas, poetical, historical, topographical, or artistical, that he can make bear on his own profession. But he is sincere, friendly, strictly moral in every respect, I firmly believe even to innocence - and in point of cheerful Indefatigableness of Industry, in regularity & Temperance, in short, in a glad yet quiet Devotion of his whole Being to the Art, he has made choice of, he is the only man I ever knew, who goes near to rival Southey : gentlemanly address, person, physiognomy, knowledge, learning, & Genius being of course wholly excluded from the comparison. - God knows my Heart! & that it is my full Belief & Conviction, that taking all together there does not exist the Man who could without flattery or delusion be called Southey's equal. It is quite delightful to hear how he is spoken of by all good people. Dawe will doubtless take him - Were S. and I rich men, we would have ourselves & all of you, short & tall, in one family picture. Pray, receive Dawe as a friend;" discussing the delay by Murray in publication of "On the Origin, &c" [by Southey but published anonymously in 1812] and the future publication of his books; asking that she send him some books that he needs for his lectures and some articles of clothing; asking, in a postscript, "Has Southey read Childe Harold? All the world is talking of it. I have not; but from what I hear, it is exactly on the plan that I myself had not only conceived six years ago, but have the whole Scheme drawn out in one of my old Memorandum Books. Does Southey know the price of Silver Forks - ? 20£ per dozen! - If he chooses, Mr. Brent will give him a year's credit for any thing, he may wish to have. My dear Edith - & my dear Moon! tho' I have scarce room to write it, yet I love you very much. As soon as possible, I will write to dear Hartley."
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