BIB_ID
415582
Accession number
MA 1848.67
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England?, 1804 February 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 20.5 x 16.2 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives only "Friday afternoon" for the date of writing. However, the letter is postmarked "February 17, 1804," which fell on a Friday. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
No place of writing is given, though based on the contents of the letter and Coleridge's movements during this period, it seems most likely that it was written in London.
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.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Southey / Greta Hall / Keswick."
No place of writing is given, though based on the contents of the letter and Coleridge's movements during this period, it seems most likely that it was written in London.
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.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Southey / Greta Hall / Keswick."
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 he has just returned from Dunmow, "the only place I have been at for a long long time, in which I have from my heart's heart wished you to have been with me"; mentioning that he has seen "such divine Pictures, & Engravings as have made me almost an apostate to Music"; writing that William Godwin "implicated me in the same sort of disrespect as he uttered against you -- quite in his way -- without meaning any harm, but simply disclosing the unutterable Bluntness & Blindness of his Intellect"; admitting that he is cowardly about causing pain, "but what can you say to a man who comes & tells you, his pecuniary comforts will probably be greatly affected by your doing this or that?"; saying that he will call on Longman tomorrow; commenting on the king's illness and writing "the King will certainly die -- Fox's Coalition with the Grenvilles is avowed -- and the Prince's Life was last week despaired of from a frenzy fever, the consequence of three days' drinking"; describing the prince's drinking bout; sending his love to Sara and instructing her to draw on Daniel Stuart for money to pay most of their debts in Keswick; describing efforts he is making on behalf of George Fricker with Thomas Poole and John Rickman, and his hope that they will be successful; telling Southey in a postscript not to be "angry with poor G., who would fall prostrate & idolize you, if you would but let him" and mentioning that he will be dining with Poole at Sharpe's.
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