BIB_ID
415627
Accession number
MA 1852.29
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1813 December.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.0 x 21.1 and 8.5 x 21.1 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.
This letter has been cut into two fragments, the second fragment containing the signature and the postscript. A footnote to the published letter cited below suggests the letter was "written in late Dec., since the lectures referred to were advertised on 30 Dec. to begin on Tuesday, 4 Jan. 1814." It appears likely the letter was written from Bristol.
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.
This letter has been cut into two fragments, the second fragment containing the signature and the postscript. A footnote to the published letter cited below suggests the letter was "written in late Dec., since the lectures referred to were advertised on 30 Dec. to begin on Tuesday, 4 Jan. 1814." It appears likely the letter was written from Bristol.
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
Acknowledging receipt of her letter and expressing relief at the news of Mary's convalescence; saying he has been ill "...my appetite & digestion worse, I think than formerly, tho' I am very careful - but what most afflicts me is the heavy Load on my Spirits which by no effort I can shake off -. My Lectures are to recommence on Tuesday Evening, with what success I expect to inform you in person : for if God permit, I mean to be with you on Wednesday, tho' I must, perforce, return early on Thursday -. I would go now, but that I feel it necessary to exert myself in writing the essay containing my plan of private Lectures;" adding, in a postscript, that he has only seen one of his Bristol friends, Mr. [William] Hood.
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