BIB_ID
415596
Accession number
MA 1852.22
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1813 October 25.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.4 x 18.7 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 "Mrs. Morgan / 19, London Street / Fitzroy Square / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Monday Morning: White Hart, Bristol." The postmark is October 26, 1813.
Coleridge undertook a lecture series in Bristol in October and November, 1813 in hopes of raising money to help the Morgans who were in financial difficulties.
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 "Mrs. Morgan / 19, London Street / Fitzroy Square / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Monday Morning: White Hart, Bristol." The postmark is October 26, 1813.
Coleridge undertook a lecture series in Bristol in October and November, 1813 in hopes of raising money to help the Morgans who were in financial difficulties.
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
Concerning the lecture series he is giving in Bristol; relating news of mutual friends he has seen and those whom he hopes will subscribe to his lectures; saying "I hope, I need not say that I at least have not lost a moment in bringing the main (as till I arrived, it was the sole) object of my Journey to some satisfactory Conclusion;" referring to discussions on a possible settlement so that "...the B G St Bss may be saved...;" adding "I must say, that excepting the expressions of deep Regret, that Morgan had not stayed at Bristol & pursued the Law in good Earnest, I have not heard a symptom of that ordinary indelicacy, retrospective Censure & Criticism on a friend in adversity. - This Evening, I trust, all will be settled that can be, in this place : & for the future, we will rely on our own efforts;" reporting that the Subscription is going well; asking her to find some things for him and have them sent; describing several books on Schlegel that he would like and the "...little wholly unbound memorandum Book of mine, very much rumpled, written all thro', & square : in the first 5 or 6 leaves there is, I remember, an extract from an old play of Robin Hood & Marian...Likewise, I must have a pair of Drawers, one of the best shirts, & two of the double Cravats - if they have come from the Wash;" giving instructions on how they should be sent and the address to which they should be delivered; adding that his health is good, he is hoping to see Allston that afternoon and listing all the people he has not yet seen; adding, in a postscript, written at the top of the first page, "Pray read all thro' - and a pair of white Stockings."
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