BIB_ID
415539
Accession number
MA 1852.13
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1812 January.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 14.8 x 24.4 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 "S.T. Coleridge Esq're / at J. J. Morgan's Esq're / N 7. Portland Place, / Hammersmith."
Date of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below saying "Coleridge wrote this note on the back of the address sheet of an old letter directed to him at Portland Place, Hammersmith. His connexion with this address ended in Feb. 1812."
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 "S.T. Coleridge Esq're / at J. J. Morgan's Esq're / N 7. Portland Place, / Hammersmith."
Date of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below saying "Coleridge wrote this note on the back of the address sheet of an old letter directed to him at Portland Place, Hammersmith. His connexion with this address ended in Feb. 1812."
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
Being a letter written in a verse of 9 lines; saying "My dear Morgan / I wish you would be my Organ / And when you pass down Piccadilly / To call in at Escher's, who sells books wise and silly / But chiefly in a Lingo by the Learned called German, / And who himself looks less like a Man than a Mer-man / And ask him if he still has a work called Ardinghello, / It was in his Catalogue, I am sure, and of course to sell o - / And if it is, to buy it for me. Don't forget it, my dear Fellow!."
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