BIB_ID
415712
Accession number
MA 1852.36
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1814 September 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.5 x 19.0 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 "J. J. or Mrs. Morgan, Esq're / Paul Street / Portland Square" with an ink drawing of a man's head in profile with a man's boot with spurs drawn directly over the head.
Coleridge dates the letter "Sunday Evening, 8 o'clock." A footnote to the published letter cited below indicates "This letter was written on the Sunday following Coleridge's letter to Murray of 31 Aug. 1814." There is no postmark.
Place of writing inferred from contents.
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 "J. J. or Mrs. Morgan, Esq're / Paul Street / Portland Square" with an ink drawing of a man's head in profile with a man's boot with spurs drawn directly over the head.
Coleridge dates the letter "Sunday Evening, 8 o'clock." A footnote to the published letter cited below indicates "This letter was written on the Sunday following Coleridge's letter to Murray of 31 Aug. 1814." There is no postmark.
Place of writing inferred from contents.
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
Referring to letters that had not been received by Kiddle and adding that he told Mrs. Hood "...that it was quite out of my power to wait longer - that I felt it absolutely necessary to the fulfilment of my Engagement with Murray the Bookseller to retire from Bristol immediately, from the deep Conviction that it was impossible for me to labor effectually there;" expressing his desire to introduce Mr. Morgan to Mr. Daniel "...for a private Conversation without Megrim. I have done what I can, without ungratefully making Enemies -. But should you be uneasy to return home, all I can say is, that I will follow you as soon as possible - though' I would rather go with you -;" adding, in a postscript, "N.B. I cannot well go from Bristol for good, till I have waited for T[uesday's] Post for Murray's final answer. I expected it to [day - ] tomorrow there is no Post -."
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