BIB_ID
415182
Accession number
MA 1849.43
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1812 April 24.
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 and fragment of a wafer to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Written from 71, Berners' Street.
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 fragment of a wafer to "Mrs. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Written from 71, Berners' Street.
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
Relating, at length, his sighting of Nobs [the fictional horse in Southey's seven-volume novel 'The Doctor]; asking her to tell Southey "...that I have, egomet his ipis meis oculis, seen NOBS, alive, well, and in full Fleece - that after the Death of Dr. Daniel Dove of Doncaster, who did not survive the loss of his faithful Wife, Mrs. Dorothy Dove, more than eleven months, Nobs was disposed of by his Executors to Longman & Clementi, Musical Instrument Manufacturers - whose grand Piano-forte Hearses he now draws in the streets of London. The Carter was astonished at the enthusiasm, with which I entreated him to stop for half a minute, and the embrace I gave to Nobs, who evidently understood me, and wistfully, with SUCH a sad expression in his eye! seemed to say - Ah my kind old master, Doctor Daniel, and ah! my mild Mistress, his dear duteous Dolly Dove - My gratitude lies deeper even than my Obligation - it is not merely skin-deep! - Ah what I have been! ah what I am! - his naked, neighing, night-wandering, new-skinned, nibbling, noble Nursling, Nobs! - ...If I can procure the money, I will attempt to purchase Nobs, & send him down to Keswick by short Journeys, for Herbert & Derwent to ride upon : provided you can but get the field next us;" asking her to ask Southey's help in securing two essays from Wordsworth for The Friend; saying "It is, I know & feel, a very delicate Business; yet I wish, Southey would immediately write to Wordsworth, & urge him to send them...with as little delay as possible - or if he decline it, that Southey should apprize me of it as soon as possible;" asking for her help with certain financial matters and debts he owes related to the publication of The Friend; sending his love to all;" adding, in a postscript, that "Charlotte Brent (tell Derwent) hopes, he has not forgot his old Play-fellow - whose face he made use of to draw ink-pictures on."
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