BIB_ID
415607
Accession number
MA 1852.25
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1813 November 9.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 38.5 x 24.1 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 / 19 London Street / Fitzroy Square / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Tuesday Night, 12 o'clock / Mr. Wade's, 2 Queen Square." The postmark is November 10.
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 / 19 London Street / Fitzroy Square / London."
Coleridge dates the letter "Tuesday Night, 12 o'clock / Mr. Wade's, 2 Queen Square." The postmark is November 10.
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
Expressing his deep anxiety that he has not heard from them and the effect it had on his Lecture that evening; saying "I can not express the uneasiness, I have suffered, from not hearing from you. It really so deprest my Spirits, and so haunted me, that the Lecture of to Night, which I had expected to have been the best & to have produced the most lively Effect, that on Othello, was the worst, I ever delivered - & humiliating Contrast to the Lecture before;" saying he has been tormented with worry and adding "The root of the Evil is, that neither of you ever formed a just appreciation of my Affection toward you. You never believed that I loved you & Morgan, as (God knows!) I have done;" saying that he is leaving for Clifton the following day to set up a lecture series there but is concerned because he needs to leave for Clifton just an hour before the Post arrives in case there might be a letter for him from them; saying "You cannot conceive, how unhappy this has made me - I pray God fervently, that it may be accident, or even your fault - & not Illness or any new Misfortune. Sure, there cannot have been any thing in my latter Letters, that has affronted you?;" asking that they write him immediately and let him know about Mary's health, their "private & household Bills, what have remained unpayed" and what they think of his plan to spend the next four months in Bristol;" asking, in a postscript, that they "...hereafter write every other day : & I will do the same, till things are settled one way or the other..."
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