BIB_ID
415429
Accession number
MA 1851.14
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1829 September.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.5 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 to "Rev'd F. Carey / &c &c / British Museum / By / Dr Wiss."
Place of writing inferred from contents and date of writing from docket.
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 to "Rev'd F. Carey / &c &c / British Museum / By / Dr Wiss."
Place of writing inferred from contents and date of writing from docket.
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
Introducing Dr. Wiss who is the bearer of the letter; explaining that Dr. Wiss, a Professor at the University of Heidelberg, wishes to see some "literary treasures of the British Museum."
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