BIB_ID
415315
Accession number
MA 1848.35
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1800 February 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.3 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Coleridge does not give a date of writing; it has been taken from the postmark. 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 / Single."
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 / Single."
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
Mentioning that he is translating plays by Schiller: "they are Poems, full of long speeches -- in very polish'd Blank Verse"; suggesting that novels or translations are the best way to make money at the moment; saying that he does not think writing a book for children would hurt Southey's reputation and urging him to take on the project (a "History of Poetry in all nations" -- see MA 1848.33 for background); adding "It is not necessary that you should say much about French or German Literature"; creating a sample table of contents for him and offering to write the chapter about German poetry; mentioning a poem "of fascinating Metre" by Mary Robinson that appeared in the Morning Post on February 26th and saying that he asked her if it could be published in the Annual Anthology; reporting her reaction: "She was extremely flattered by the Idea of it's being there, as she idolizes you & your Doings"; urging him to include it and offering to transcribe it for him if he can't get a copy of the paper; criticizing aspects of the poem but praising the meter and the images ("new & very distinct"); saying that William Taylor told him that "Double Rhymes in our Language have always a ludicrous association" and responding to this, "Mercy on the Man! Where are his Ears & Feelings?"; describing Sara as still unwell; saying that Hartley is "rampant, & Emperorizes with your pictures"; sending love to Southey, his wife Edith and Humphry Davy; adding in a postscript (on the address panel): "Your Simile of the Cucumbers & Dung tickled me hugely."
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