BIB_ID
415558
Accession number
MA 1852.16
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Kendal, England, 1812 February 18.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 25.2 x 20.2 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."
Year of writing from postmark.
The text of the letter begins in the middle of page 3 which Coleridge indicates in a note at the top of the first page "Begin at the third page in the middle." Coleridge has written notes to this letter on pages 1 and 2 and on the top two thirds of page 3. Coleridge tells Morgan at the start of the letter, "...I write at the fag-end of these notes not intended for anything but private Memoranda for myself, rather than make you pay postage for almost a Blank.-"
With two small ink drawings Coleridge inserted into the paragraph on the Dutch-German Jeweller in his notes. The drawings refer to the jeweller's offer to cut a seal for Mrs. Morgan and her sister Charlotte.
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."
Year of writing from postmark.
The text of the letter begins in the middle of page 3 which Coleridge indicates in a note at the top of the first page "Begin at the third page in the middle." Coleridge has written notes to this letter on pages 1 and 2 and on the top two thirds of page 3. Coleridge tells Morgan at the start of the letter, "...I write at the fag-end of these notes not intended for anything but private Memoranda for myself, rather than make you pay postage for almost a Blank.-"
With two small ink drawings Coleridge inserted into the paragraph on the Dutch-German Jeweller in his notes. The drawings refer to the jeweller's offer to cut a seal for Mrs. Morgan and her sister Charlotte.
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
Relating, in detail, his visit with Dr. Crompton and his wife and relating all the reasons for his deep affection for Mrs. Crompton; giving the details of his travel and his hopes of arriving at Keswick by dinner on Wednesday, February 19th and telling him that Greta Hall, Keswick will be his address for the next ten days; providing detailed and lengthy notes on five topics: the coal supply in Liverpool from the Wiggan Pits, the Dutch-German Jeweller's (fellow coach passenger) discovery of "...a mode of coloring white & yellow Cornelians of any color," the buildings of the Liverpool Exchange & Custom House, the nature of a Pearl and oysters and Adam Wilson's, (fellow coach passenger who was with the East India Company), views on open trade with India, missionaries in India, the tenets of Hinduism and Christianity and the obstacles to conversion.
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