BIB_ID
415727
Accession number
MA 1852.37
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1816 July 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 13.6 x 16.2 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. It appears Coleridge is with the Gillmans at Highgate but as this is a fragment the place of writing is not included.
The top half of this letter has been cut away.
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. It appears Coleridge is with the Gillmans at Highgate but as this is a fragment the place of writing is not included.
The top half of this letter has been cut away.
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
Beginning in mid-sentence in this fragment concerning a dinner engagement and his health, saying "My Health is progressive - I have had no relapse for 3 weeks : tho' I have been otherwise unwell twice - and this end of the World Weather is sadly against me by preventing all exercise;" referring to his manuscript for Biographia Literaria saying "Gutch has informed me that there was a mistake about the quantity of the Manuscript : and that the second volume won't make 200 pages. I was incredulous, you may remember, when the contrary was affirmed, but yielded to his positive assurance as conveyed by you. - Now here shall I of necessity [this portion of the letter continues onto the top of the verso and has been cut away;" adding that the Gillmans would be happy to have him and Miss Brent visit them at Highgate.
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