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Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bristol, to Mrs. J. J. Morgan, 1813 November 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
415612
Accession number
MA 1852.26
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1813 November 14.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24.0 x 19.5 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 "Sunday." The postmark is November 15, 1813.
Coleridge was living with Josiah Wade when he wrote this letter and Wade had commissioned Washington Allston to paint a portrait of Coleridge.
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
Reporting on his ill health, acknowledging receipt of her letter and parcel, and discussing his possible future plans for Bristol and Clifton; saying his lecture at Clifton was poorly attended due to the severe weather and that Allston was better "...when I last saw him; & had I been well, I should have been there yesterday by appointment - as he promised to take a little sketch of me for Mr. Wade;" asking if Charlotte might go to the Depository for him to get him 40 books, a watch, snuff box and other items.