BIB_ID
415676
Accession number
MA 1852.33
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1814 June 29.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.3 x 18.5 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.
Date of writing from published letter cited below. Place of writing inferred from contents.
Coleridge and Washington Allston designed large illuminated transparencies in celebration of Proclamation Day, June 27, 1814.
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.
Date of writing from published letter cited below. Place of writing inferred from contents.
Coleridge and Washington Allston designed large illuminated transparencies in celebration of Proclamation Day, June 27, 1814.
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 improved health, but adding that he was a "...a little thrown back by the Bustle of Proclamation Day but still more by the imminent danger which our own large Transparency ran three or four several times of Conflagration from the Obstinacy and Self-conceit of the Lighter & Frame-maker - so that from the time it was lit till 1/2 past 11, when I persuaded Wade to put all the Lights out, we were in continual alarm, with three of us constantly watching the abominable Lamps. - I saw Allston's last night - it is a truly Michael Angelesque Figure, & of course beyond all comparison the finest in the City;" describing the activities on Queen's Square on Proclamation Day; relating news of the accidental drowning of a young medical student "...who used to bring over my Medicines, & whom I particularly liked."
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