BIB_ID
415377
Accession number
MA 1848.47
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Keswick, England, circa 1802 August 12.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Coleridge's letter has been written on the address sheet of a letter from Sara Coleridge to her sister Edith. The rest of Sara's letter is missing. In the section of her letter that remains, she discusses the company coming to visit, the work this entails and the servants she is currently supervising; she writes that "Derwent is still a great deal of trouble"; she asks after friends and family members, and she adds "I wish much to fill my paper but Samuel is going to the Post and he teizes me to have done!"
Neither a place or a date of writing is given, but the letter has a Keswick postmark. Based on internal evidence, Griggs surmises that it was written on or around August 12, 1802. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
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: "Mrs Southey / St James's-place / Kingsdown / Bristol."
Neither a place or a date of writing is given, but the letter has a Keswick postmark. Based on internal evidence, Griggs surmises that it was written on or around August 12, 1802. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
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: "Mrs Southey / St James's-place / Kingsdown / 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
Asking him about cowpox; citing an account by a sixth-century Swiss ecclesiastic, included in André Du Chesne's Historiae Francorum scriptores, that describes smallpox as traveling through the Middle East and into Europe, carried by merchants and soldiers; writing that the cattle plague in 1769 was identified by physicians in Denmark as being smallpox; adding that it was eradicated in England, Flanders and the south of France by burying diseased cattle whole, but "in Denmark it became naturalized -- & they prevented it's ill effects by inoculating the Calves, which answered in all cases exactly as inoculation in the human species"; asking Southey to relay these facts to "Mr King & Dr Beddoes" and to find out from them whether they have appeared in "any of the pamphlets of Jenner, Woodville, & the rest of the Cow po[x men]. God bless you, dear Friend!"
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