BIB_ID
415849
Accession number
MA 1848.92
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1820 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Coleridge lists the date of writing only as "Wednesday." In the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs suggests that this letter was most likely written on May 31, 1820, based on other letters by Coleridge from this period. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Coleridge gives the place of writing at the end of the letter as "J. Gillman's, Esqre / 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.
Coleridge gives the place of writing at the end of the letter as "J. Gillman's, Esqre / 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.
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
Saying that he hopes he sees Southey before the latter's return to the north and he has several books that he would like to send with him, including "a thin octavo [...] with a little Mss Commentary of my own" for his daughter Sara; mentioning his recent ill health; saying that he believes Longman has no intention of ever reprinting his early poems or his translation of Schiller's Wallenstein; suggesting that Southey might ask Longman if he would be willing to revert the rights; discussing the idea of an edition of all of his poetic works; referring to a "work of amusement" called Weather-bound Travellers that he is in the midst of writing and saying that he does not intend to publish it under his real name, since he feels that nothing that appears with his name on it would be treated fairly; adding that he would then like to proceed with a collection of "theological and biblical Letters, to a Candidate for Holy orders in the established church" and describing the project in detail; adding "Derwent is well & going on well -- & desires his best respects & duty. May God bless you!"
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