BIB_ID
415736
Accession number
MA 1852.38
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 November 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.0 x 18.1 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.
Date and place of writing from footnotes to the published letter cited below.
Portions of the left side of the first page of this letter have been torn 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 and place of writing from footnotes to the published letter cited below.
Portions of the left side of the first page of this letter have been torn 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
Concerning a portrait painted by William Collins of his daughter Sara; saying that he had been too ill to leave the house but that Mr. Lesly [C.R. Leslie] had visited to tell him of Allston's election to the Royal Academy and to show Coleridge a portrait; saying he brought "...with him a picture which I at least said - I have never seen any such female to my knowledge; but did I not know, you had never seen her, I might have imagined, that little Sara Coleridge would have grown into such a Lass. - He then informed me - that it was my Daughter's portrait, painted by Mr. Collins. It is the most beautiful Fancy-figure, I ever saw. - And lastly, ill and [an]xious as I was, Lesly contrived to take a head of me which appears to be the most striking Likeness ever taken - [per]haps, because I did not sit for it. It was for [him]self. This morning I was so alternately disordered [in] my bowels & stomach that before I could leave my [bed]room, the first Stage had gone - and determining to go for some days when I did go, I could not declare such an intention at a moment that I was confessedly sick & body-wildered - And now came in, unexpectedly Mr. Carey (the Author of the Translation of Dante, from whom I had received so much kindness at little Hampton) who had devoted the only day in his power to come up & see me - & who is seeking out for a House near Highgate - As I was not able to accompany him, I take the opportunity of his absence to write this letter - The time of my coming over will not be delayed an hour beyond my inability - Tho' Mr. Carey is a great Favorite of mine, I can scarcely hold up my head to converse with him;" sending his love to all.
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