BIB_ID
415385
Accession number
MA 1851.10
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1822 June 19.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1851, is comprised of 12 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Henry Francis Cary, written from October 1817 through September 1829 and 4 copies of autograph letters from Coleridge to H.F. Cary, in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge, and dated May 25 or 26, 1827, June 2, 1827, November 29, 1830 and April 22,1832.
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 individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel with postmark and fragment of a seal to "Rev. Mr. Cary / Chiswick."
Date of writing from footnote to published letter cited below saying "Although this letter is endorsed 'Mr. Coleridge June 18th 1822', it was written, as the contents show, on Wednesday, June 19th.
Place of writing from Letter 1307 in the publication cited below written on the same date and from Highgate.
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 individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel with postmark and fragment of a seal to "Rev. Mr. Cary / Chiswick."
Date of writing from footnote to published letter cited below saying "Although this letter is endorsed 'Mr. Coleridge June 18th 1822', it was written, as the contents show, on Wednesday, June 19th.
Place of writing from Letter 1307 in the publication cited below written on the same date and from Highgate.
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
Apologizing for not replying to an invitation; saying "I was about to set off when lo! and behold! I find or rather Mrs. Gillman has found for me, that the Invitation was for last Wednesday, 12th of June. - But, my dear Friend! it was on last Wednesday Afternoon that I received your kind letter. - I have no time to write more; but that I will very soon come over & enjoy a few days with you."
Catalog link
Department