BIB_ID
415826
Accession number
MA 1853.7
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1824 April 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.5 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1853, is comprised of seven autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to C.A., Tulk, written from February 12, 1821 through April 10, 1824.
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 and seal to "C. A. Tulk, Esq're. M.P. / Duke Street / Westminster."
Date of writing from postmark.
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 and seal to "C. A. Tulk, Esq're. M.P. / Duke Street / Westminster."
Date of writing from postmark.
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 Mrs. Tulk and Mrs. Gillman, his "feverish excitement" at the impending visit of Wordsworth and his family, and the attack of Dysentery from which he is recovering; referring to experiments in Animal Magnetism; apologizing, in a postscript, for troubling him again with a request to forward what he has enclosed to Mrs. Coleridge at Keswick; explaining "My dear child has a distressing inflammation of the Tarsal Glands : & I dare not trust to a country Doctor the necessary Remedies."
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