BIB_ID
415264
Accession number
MA 1848.34
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1800 February 18.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.5 x 20.6 cm
Notes
Coleridge's letter to Southey is followed by one by Sara Coleridge, which she signs.
Coleridge gives the date of writing in the body of the letter. See the published edition of Coleridge's correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Place of writing taken from the "Strand" postmark.
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 Southey / Kingsdown Parade / Bristol."
Coleridge gives the date of writing in the body of the letter. See the published edition of Coleridge's correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Place of writing taken from the "Strand" postmark.
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 Southey / Kingsdown Parade / Bristol."
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
STC: Saying, about the idea of Southey going abroad for his health, "I cannot bear to think of your going to a strange country, without any one with you who loves & understands you"; describing how hard he is working; telling him to read his account of Pitt's speech in that day's Morning Post and saying that Pitt should be grateful to him, for "by heaven he never talked half as eloquently in his Life time"; calling Pitt a "stupid insipid Charlatan"; commenting on the "Beguinages of Holland"; saying that Richard Phillips is "a good for nothing fellow" but that he will advance Southey £60 for a book he could write quickly and that Southey should not dismiss the idea too hastily; commenting on Phillips's vegetarianism: "whatever might be thought of innate Ideas, there could be no doubt to a man who has seen Phillips of the existence of innate Beef"; telling him which of his poems soon to appear in the Annual Anthology he would like his name on; saying that "Fears in Solitude" is not his property and he does not think he will be able to get the rights back; giving his opinion on Southey's idea for a periodical; commenting on Southey's review of "Gebir" and saying that he cannot find out who the author is; mentioning that he has sent a letter to Mrs. Fricker via Southey; sending love to Edith and reporting that Hartley is well and Sara is "still miserable"; SFC: asking Edith to acknowledge receipt of the letter to Mrs. Fricker; saying that she is the same and is looking forward to "less Misery" when they move out of London: "I am almost confident that change of air will assist me"; adding that Southey's account of his health worries her very much; writing of Hartley: "poor Moses has a miserable cold, but he is well enough to tell every one that calls, that uncle Southey is going to send him some [Sugar?] of Candy -- God bless you!"
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