BIB_ID
415225
Accession number
MA 1848.32
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1800 January 25.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.4 and 25.4 x 20.2 cm
Notes
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: "London Jan twenty five 1800 / Mr. Southey / Kingsdown Parade / Bristol / H. Wycombe."
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: "London Jan twenty five 1800 / Mr. Southey / Kingsdown Parade / Bristol / H. Wycombe."
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
Saying that he is very busy ("my occupations have lately swoln above smothering Point -- I am over mouth & nostrils"); enclosing a poem by Mary Robinson for the Annual Anthology (no longer with the letter) and praising Robinson's poetry and intellect highly; describing Charles Lloyd's insulting conduct towards Mary Hays; saying that Lloyd's behavior continually worsens and that he is guilty of "Lies, Treachery & Rascality"; adding that he does not have the same high opinion of Hays's intellect as Southey has; describing her as "ex-syllogiz[ing] a God with cold-blooded Precision, & attempt[ing] to run Religion thro' the body with an Icicle"; sending news of Thomas Wedgwood's movements and saying he cannot leave England for the time being ("a circumstance has taken place, which will render a Sea-voyage utterly unfit for Sara"); telling anecdotes about Hartley; discussing the problems of property, the priesthood and "the too great Patronage of Government"; making a pun; asking Southey to tell Humphry Davy that he will write soon: "God love him! -- You & I, Southey! know a good & great man or two in this World of ours"; recounting a "scoundrelly" act on the part of Thomas Sheridan and condemning Daniel Stuart for publishing Sheridan's (probably referring to Thomas's father Richard Brinsley) account of it in the Morning Post and the Courier; vilifying Sheridan further; sending his love to Edith and writing "Let me hear from you -- & do not be angry with me, that I don't [ans]wer your Letters regularly."
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