BIB_ID
415533
Accession number
MA 1852.12
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1811 October 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.7 x 24.0 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 / 7. Portland Place / Hammersmith."
Date of writing from postmark and published letter cited below. Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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 / 7. Portland Place / Hammersmith."
Date of writing from postmark and published letter cited below. Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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
Asking him to ask Mrs. Morgan and her sister (Charlotte Brent) to forgive him "...for the gross disrespect, which my absence & silence render me guilty of. I am truly and to my very heart sensible, that it has been such behavior, as they & you had little merited from me - and that the rudeness is a trifle compared with the apparent Ingratitude...that the agitation & distraction of my mind have been the causes - that it was intolerable to me to bring back to your Home of Peace & Love a spirit so disquieted - that I feared the probable effects of vexation on my bodily health & had solemnly vowed that I would never be ill 24 hours together in your House;" adding that he wrote the letter he is enclosing on Saturday (see MA 1852.11) "...& I can neither bear to write or even read it over again - I am afraid, there is a great deal of peevish feeling in it, which attribute not to me but to my state of mind at the time of writing it - & burn it."
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