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: "R. Southey Esq."
Saying that there is a thorn in his leg and the wound is not healing; writing that he is nevertheless leaving tomorrow for "Eusemere, Mr Clarkson's Residence, whither Mrs Coleridge & my beloved children are already gone"; asking Southey to write Daniel Stuart, inform him of his plans, and tell him that he will write very soon; sending love to Edith; telling him that Hartley was put in breeches last Sunday and "looks far better than in his petticoats. He ran to & fro in a sort of dance to the Jingle of the Load of Money, that had been put his breeches pockets: but he did [not] roll & tumble over and over in his old joyous way -- No! it was an eager & solemn gladness, as if he felt it to be an awful æra in his Life. -- O bless him! bless him! bless him!"; ending the letter "If my wife loved me, and I my wife, half as well as we both love our children, I should be the happiest man alive -- but this is not -- will not be!"