BIB_ID
415523
Accession number
MA 1852.10
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1810 December 21.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.0 x 18.3 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 "J. J. Morgan Esq're / No 7 / Portland Place / Hammersmith."
Written from "Brown's Coffee House, Mitre Court, Fleet Street."
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 "J. J. Morgan Esq're / No 7 / Portland Place / Hammersmith."
Written from "Brown's Coffee House, Mitre Court, Fleet Street."
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 where he is living and his intention to "...secure a certain sum weekly, sufficient for Lodging, Maintenance, and Physicians Fees;" saying he plans to write up his medical history send it with 2 or 3£s to Abernethie without waiting for an introduction to him; adding "For indeed, it is not only useless, but unkind and ungrateful to you & all who love me, to trifle on any longer : depressing your spirits, and spite of myself gradually alienating your esteem & chilling your affection toward me. As soon as I have heard from Abernethie, I will walk over to you : and spend a few days before I enter into my Lodgings & on my dread ordeal - as some kind-hearted Catholics have taught, that the Soul is carried slowly along close by the walls of Paradise on its way to Purgatory, and permitted to breathe in some snatches of blissful Airs, in order to strengthen it's endurance during it's fiery Trial by this Foretaste of what awaits it at the conclusion & final goal-delivery;" asking that they send him his books and papers and clean Linens; and asking Mary and Charlotte to forgive him if he ever did anything that offended them; concluding "And looking t'ward the Heaven, that bends above you, / Full oft I bless the Lot, that made me love you!."
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