BIB_ID
415565
Accession number
MA 1848.64
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1804 January 25.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 11 x 18.8 cm
Notes
The letter is undated and has no place of writing. However, it was cut away (as per Coleridge's instructions) from a sheet containing a letter addressed to Sara Coleridge, which was written from Westminster, most probably on January 25, 1804. The letter to Sara Coleridge is described separately in a subset of this Coleridge collection as MA 1849.16. MA 1849.1-46 is a collection of letters from Coleridge to Sara. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Signed with initials.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Signed with initials.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
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
Saying that during his stay at Dr. Peter Crompton's in Liverpool, he read all the reviews in the Annual Review that he knew or thought had been written by Southey, and praising them very highly: "if aught could reconcile me to the thought of reviewing at all, & of you as a Reviewer, those articles would have done it [...] Reviews would be a Blessing, spite even of the necessary Evil involved in their Essence, of breeding a crumbliness of mind in the Readers, if they were executed as those were"; mentioning that he read a review by Anna Barbauld on a work by Charles Lamb, "& if I do not cut her to the Heart, openly & with my name, never believe me again"; cautioning Southey to be "exceedingly temperate & courteous & guarded in your Language" in his review of Malthus; adding that he has heard that Walter Scott has reviewed "Thalaba" in the Edinburgh Review; writing that John Thelwall has had "a grand Rumpus with the Ed. Reviewers" and written a scathing pamphlet on the subject, which has sold 1000 copies; saying that Dr. Crompton received a letter from Thelwall crowing over his victory and quoting from it; promising to send all the gossip from London soon; mentioning that John Rickman left the city last night.
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