BIB_ID
415492
Accession number
MA 1852.1
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1807 November 23.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.6 x 18.6 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1852, is comprised of 40 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Mr. and Mrs. John James Morgan, written from November 1807 through October 1826. Coleridge lived with the Morgans from 1810-1816.
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 to "Mr. Jno. Jas. Morgan / St. James's Square / Bristol."
Date of writing from postmark. Coleridge dates the letter "Monday Evening." November 23, 1807 was a Monday.
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 to "Mr. Jno. Jas. Morgan / St. James's Square / Bristol."
Date of writing from postmark. Coleridge dates the letter "Monday Evening." November 23, 1807 was a Monday.
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
Informing them of his safe arrival and expressing his deep affection for them; adding 'When I was leaving you, one of the little alleviations which I looked forward to, was that I could write with less embarrassment than I could utter in your presence the many feelings of grateful affection and most affectionate esteem toward you, that pressed upon my heart almost, as at times it seemed, with a bodily weight - but I suppose, it is yet too short a time since I left you. You are scarcely out of my eyes yet, dear Mrs. M. and Charlotte;" adding, in a postscript, that he will move to the Courier Office "...where there is a nice suite of Rooms for me & a quiet Bedroom without expence;" asking that letters to him be sent there.
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