BIB_ID
415430
Accession number
MA 1848.53
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Tarrant Gunville, England, 1803 February 24.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the place of writing (and the address to which letters can be sent) as "Josiah Wedgwood's Esqre, / Gunville, Blandford, Dorset."
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: "Robert Southey Esqre / St James's Parade / Kingsdown / Bristol / Single Sheet."
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: "Robert Southey Esqre / St James's Parade / Kingsdown / Bristol / Single Sheet."
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
Saying that he left Nether Stowey with Thomas Poole on Friday morning and Poole insisted on hiring a one horse Chair ("that Pandora Box of Accidents") which led to breakdowns and delays; writing that he will stay in Gunville for at least a month, where he is "up to my chin in comforts"; saying that the Wedgwoods have entered into negotiations with another governess, which he feels is for the best because "Mrs. L [Mary Lovell] & the Wedgwoods would not have suited each other"; adding "Mr W. layed such stress, & so repeatedly, on good & even temper, & good & even spirits, that I could not have had the courage to have said any thing about it"; writing that he has other ideas about employment for her; describing his health and spirits as poor; disagreeing with Southey about whether block-stamping of cards had anything to do with the invention of printing and pointing out fallacies in this idea; giving him advice about his History of Portugal and telling him to gather as much information as he can find about the "Dresses, Manufactures, commerce, domestic Habits, & modifications of the feudal Government &c -- or else your History will have the air & the character of a Story-Book"; saying that he is concerned that what he wrote in his previous letter (see MA 1848.52) about Keswick might have offended Southey, but he does not feel he could treat the matter any other way; mentioning that Hartley has had scarlet fever and croup: "He is tolerably well at present; but my mind misgives me, that I shall never see him more."
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