BIB_ID
415589
Accession number
MA 1852.21
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1813 October 24.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.1 x 18.8 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 postmark to "Miss Brent / 19 London Street / Fitzroy Square / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Sunday Afternoon / White Hart." The postmark is October 25, 1813.
The manuscript has been cut which has deleted a portion of a line on the first page and likely the final portion of a line on the second page.
Charlotte Brent was Mrs. Morgan's sister.
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 postmark to "Miss Brent / 19 London Street / Fitzroy Square / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Sunday Afternoon / White Hart." The postmark is October 25, 1813.
The manuscript has been cut which has deleted a portion of a line on the first page and likely the final portion of a line on the second page.
Charlotte Brent was Mrs. Morgan's sister.
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
Acknowledging her letter and saying he is glad to know that Mary is better; saying that he has "...no doubts of succeeding so far as to secure the B. St Business for the nonce - The proposed Scheme of Lecturing has met with such support, that I have resolved on it - and shall give the first at the White Lion, on Thursday Evening;" reporting that he is well and giving news of mutual friends; saying that Mr. [Samuel] Morse gave him Mr. Allston's address whom he has not seen but was told that Dr. King had operated on Allston... "& it appears, that I was too much in the Right in fearing it to be an analogous Case to Thomas Wedgewood's - It is a stricture, or thickening of the Colon - but it will not put a period to his Life, I trust. Indeed, he is very much better - & out of Pain."
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