BIB_ID
415496
Accession number
MA 1852.4
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1808 January 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.5 x 19.4 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 "Mrs. 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 "Mrs. 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 ill health and saying though he could not imagine not wishing to see them he is in such distress "...that your Society would be an Agony, O I know, I feel, how I love you, my dear Sisters & Friends!;" saying he was forced to cancel his Lecture, he has sent for a doctor and he wishes he had stayed in Bristol;" adding "I write in great pain - but yet I deem, whatever become of me, that it will hereafter be a soothing Thought to you that in sickness or in health, in hope or in despondency I have thought of you with love & esteem & gratitude;" adding, in a postscript, that he has "...lost the pretty Shirt Pin, Charlotte gave me - I promise her solemnly, never to accept one from any other - & never to wear one hereafter as long as I live : so that the sense of it's real Absence shall make a sort of imaginary Presence to me;" asking them to "...write at least a line in Morgan's Letter, if neither will write me a whole one - to comfort me by the assurance that you remember me with esteem & some affection."
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