BIB_ID
415587
Accession number
MA 1852.20
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bexhill, England, 1813 March 14.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.7 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 "Mrs. Morgan / 71 Berner's Street / London."
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 "Mrs. Morgan / 71 Berner's Street / London."
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 their coach journey to Bexhill; reporting that Mr. Morgan's health was good and he and seemed well recovered from the illness he had before they left; saying they are going out for a walk and that their hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, are happy to hear that there may be a chance of seeing her at Bex Hill; adding "I mean to shave infant-smooth the very last Stage, before we reach London."
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