BIB_ID
415386
Accession number
MA 1851.11
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1825 September 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.4 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 postmarks to "The Rev'd F. Carey / Chiswick."
Docketed.
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 postmarks to "The Rev'd F. Carey / Chiswick."
Docketed.
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
Concerning a recommendation for Dr. Ferguson by Mr. Gillman; suggesting that Dr. Ferguson call on Mr. Gillman and adding "Mr. G. will be happy to converse with Dr. F. on the Subject - and meantime advises Dr. F. to call on or leave his card with, the Treasurer of St. Thomas's, Mr. Chapman, and to make as much interest with him by means of Friends as he can. But all this Dr. F. will learn better from Mr. G. viva voce - and will find Mr. G. exceedingly disposed to further his view."
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