BIB_ID
415495
Accession number
MA 1852.3
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1808 January 14.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.2 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. J. J. Morgan / St. James's Square / Bristol."
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. J. J. Morgan / St. James's Square / Bristol."
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
Describing his journey to the Gloster and his fellow passengers in the coach; adding that he attended Mr. Dibdin's lecture at the Royal Institution and then "...accompanied Dr. Calcott to a sort of Glee or Catch Club, composed wholly of professional Singers - and was much delighted - Bartleman, Harrison, Cooke, Greatorix, Smith, were the principal Singers - Webb, the patriarch of the Club, and Father of Catches & Glees in this Country, was present, & I was much interested by his affectionate chearfulness under his grievous Burthen of Age & Infirmities - as well as by the reverential affection payed to him by all the others : & Bartleman & Harrison pleased me as much as Men as they did of course as Singers. They either were, or were polite enough all to appear to be, marvellously delighted with me; & all the musical Entertainments of the Town are open to me without expence. My own Lecture commences to morrow - till that is over, I can think of nothing else."
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