BIB_ID
415497
Accession number
MA 1852.5
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1808 February 2.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.5 x 19.1 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."
Place and date of writing from published letter cited below.
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."
Place and date of writing from published letter cited below.
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 a relapse he suffered after his last letter to them with a severe "...inflammation of the Bowels and Stomach...;" asking him to remember him to Southey if he should see him and "...beg him from me to pass thro' Town on his Return;" discussing news of mutual friends; adding "The most flattering Compliment I have received for a long time was from my own woman [Mrs. Bainbridge] - During my illness a Mr. Lanseer [John Landseer] (an Engraver, I hear, who lectured last Season at the R. Inst:, but was dismissed for personal Invectives against Boydell) called; but of course could not see me - Indeed, no one was admitted. When a little recovered, seeing his Card among many others I asked the old woman, who is Mr. Lanseer (for I had never heard the name before). I am sure, I don't know (replied she) but from what he said, I guess, he is a sort of a Methody Preacher at that Unstintution, where you goes to spout, Sir."
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