BIB_ID
415620
Accession number
MA 1852.28
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1813 December 19.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 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 traces of a wafer to "Mrs. Morgan / Ashley."
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 traces of a wafer to "Mrs. Morgan / Ashley."
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
Describing how ill he has been "...driven up and down for seven dreadful Days by restless Pain, like a Leopard in a Den, yet the anguish & remorse of Mind was worse than the pain of the whole Body;" relating the care he received from Dr. Parry; adding that he hoped to travel to Bristol that afternoon "...from thence I will write you immediately. Feeble, as I am, & so deprest in spirit, I dare not come over to you - lest I should not be able to get away : and Dr. Parry says, it is quite necessary that I should be in Company & drawn away from my own Thoughts;" adding, in a postscript, "If possible, I will come over on the 24th and spend the Christmas Eve & Christmas Day with you.-"
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