BIB_ID
415837
Accession number
MA 1848.89
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, circa 1817 April 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 18,6 cm
Notes
The letter is undated. In the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs proposes that it was written on or near April 28, 1817, based on Southey's movements during this time period. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
No place of writing is given, but, based on the contents of the letter, it was clearly written in London, probably at Highgate.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel: "R. Southey Esqre."
No place of writing is given, but, based on the contents of the letter, it was clearly written in London, probably at Highgate.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel: "R. Southey Esqre."
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 Southey's recent arrival in London; saying that he has been ill and preoccupied, with a "violent cold in my Limbs and a sore throat & so bewildered by the importunacy of the Booksellers about a work or rather a prospectus of a work, which I had been unable to polish up (for I had written it) that I was half out of my senses"; asking Southey to write and tell him where he can see him and when ("I can be in town on any day, you will appoint, by 9 or 1/2 past in the morning"); saying that it would have made him happy to spend an afternoon with Southey in Highgate and that he would like him to meet Mr. and Mrs. Gillman, "but I cannot ask it, knowing well how little likely it is to be in your power"; adding in a postscript that he will wait at Mr. Murray's for a couple of hours, on the chance he might see Southey there.
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