BIB_ID
415569
Accession number
MA 1848.65
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1804 January 31.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the place of writing as: "No/ 16, Abingdon St, Westminster."
This letter is unfinished and unsigned. Coleridge explains in his next letter to Southey (written on the following day and cataloged as MA 1848.66) that he had been interrupted while writing it.
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.
Address panel: "Mr Southey / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
This letter is unfinished and unsigned. Coleridge explains in his next letter to Southey (written on the following day and cataloged as MA 1848.66) that he had been interrupted while writing it.
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.
Address panel: "Mr Southey / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
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
Praising Southey's letters; saying that even if he were "an inveterate Dram Drinker [...] I should make a Saint's Day on the morning I received a Letter from you / You certainly write the most spirit-filliping Epistles of any man in the world"; adding "I sometimes have written spirit-rousing --- Sheets of Paper; but they have not been Letters"; ending mid-sentence with "I received."
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