BIB_ID
415601
Accession number
MA 1852.23
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1813 October 29.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.8 x 19.4 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 has crossed through the original London address for Mrs. Morgan.
Place of writing from contents of the letter. Date of writing from postmark.
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 has crossed through the original London address for Mrs. Morgan.
Place of writing from contents of the letter. Date of writing from postmark.
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 financial arrangements he has made for her; saying he has sent 100£ to Lloyd "...with an arrangement for the rest -. Yesterday Evening's Lecture was tolerably attended, & I doubt not, the Scheme will be profitable...Pray, write me whether you want any money for yourself. I can send you from 20 to 30£ for your immediate use - & will do so by Sunday's Post;" asking if she could send him "...all my memorandum Books, - except the little ones with brass clasps & chemical Paper, some black, some red : for these I do not want - but all the others, and should you have an hour to waste in looking over the loose papers, & to send all such as you saw any lecture Hints or notes on - (Poetry, Drama, Shakespear's Macbeth &c &c) you would oblige me;" adding, in a postscript, that he is to dine with Mr. T. King, Poole's brother-in-law.
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