This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel with seal: "Robert Southey, Esqre / Greta Hall / Keswick / by favor of the Revd F. Laing."
Introducing him to the Reverend Francis Laing, a fellow alumnus of Balliol College, Oxford; saying that he has written at greater length about him in a letter to Sara; saying that he has been very kind to him and is "a modest, sensible, & every way amiable man"; adding that Sir Alexander Ball's son is traveling with him; concluding "I think of you ever yearningly & with habitual affection."