BIB_ID
415522
Accession number
MA 1852.9
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1808 March 29.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 21.3 x 16.6 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."
The bottom quarter of page 3 has been cut away.
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."
The bottom quarter of page 3 has been cut away.
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
Expressing his gratitude for the gowns that the Morgans had made for Mary Morgan and her sister, Charlotte Brent; relating news of the poor health of Mrs. Wordsworth and the remedies being used to restore her health; relating his anxiety with regard to the discharge by the Admiralty of Mrs. Wordsworth's brother; expressing his appreciation for his loving kindness; adding, in a postscript, that he could have told them of "...half a score of accidents, that had swallowed up both Time & Feeling, & helped to occasion my procrastination in writing to you."
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