BIB_ID
415747
Accession number
MA 1852.39
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1814 July 7.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.7 x 11.0 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 to "Miss Brent."
It appears from the contents of the letter that Coleridge is writing from Highgate.
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 to "Miss Brent."
It appears from the contents of the letter that Coleridge is writing from Highgate.
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 his frustrations in getting an agreement with Murray for the publication of two works; saying "If I could but once get off the two Works, on which I rely for the Proof that I have not lived in vain, and had these off my mind, I could then maintain myself well enough by writing for the purpose of what I got by it - but it is an anguish, I cannot look in the face, to abandon just as it is completed the work of such intense & long continued labor - & if I cannot make an agreement with Murray, I must try Colbourn - & if with neither, owing to the loud Calumny of the Edingburgh [sic] & the silent but more injurious detractor of the Quarterly Review, I must try to get them published by Subscription;" asking if she would send him a copy of Southey's Brazil; sending his love to Mary and asking 'Do you think of taking Rooms out of the Smoke during this summer, for any time?"
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