BIB_ID
415543
Accession number
MA 1852.14
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Slough, England, 1812 February 10.
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Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.2 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 postmarks to "J. J. Morgan Esq're / 7. Portland Place / Hammersmith / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Slough, 11 o/clock, Monday Night." Coleridge dates the following letter (see MA 1852.15) February 11, 1812 written on the following evening and continuing on "Thursday Noon" as he continues his journey and then arrives in Liverpool.
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 postmarks to "J. J. Morgan Esq're / 7. Portland Place / Hammersmith / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Slough, 11 o/clock, Monday Night." Coleridge dates the following letter (see MA 1852.15) February 11, 1812 written on the following evening and continuing on "Thursday Noon" as he continues his journey and then arrives in Liverpool.
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 fellow passengers in the coach on the way to Liverpool which he learned was "...called the Lousy Liverpool, and deemed the worst Coach on the Road - that it had very rarely inside Passengers except for short stages - but that the Coachman crammed into the inside such of his Outsiders as could fee him - & lastly, which occasions my writing, & which the Guard has confirmed, that we shall not be in Liverpool till Thursday Morning, one or two o/clock - Hitherto, one fellow has been put inside - O such a fellow. I have time for no more - I will write when I arrive at Liverpool; but you must not expect the Letter till Saturday - O if you knew how dearly I love you all - !"
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