BIB_ID
415864
Accession number
MA 1854.7
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1815 December.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Dr. Brabant was an English physician in Devizes who also had an interest in German Higher Criticism. Coleridge was a patient of Dr. Brabant during the years he lived in Calne.
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
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 "R. Brabant, Esq're / Devizes."
Date of writing from published letter cited below which dates it to "late December 1815." According to a the first footnote to the letter, "This letter was written the day after Letter 987" (see MA 1854.6).
Place of writing is likely Calne but the address panel has not been stamped "Calne."
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
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 "R. Brabant, Esq're / Devizes."
Date of writing from published letter cited below which dates it to "late December 1815." According to a the first footnote to the letter, "This letter was written the day after Letter 987" (see MA 1854.6).
Place of writing is likely Calne but the address panel has not been stamped "Calne."
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
Commenting on his ill health; saying "I do not know that I can add any thing to my yesterday's communication : except that for some years before I began to take the Death, I was subject to faintness and sinking at the stomach and to very weak Bowels - so that any mental agitation, any domestic Dispute, would, like a flash of Lightning, shoot thro' my Bowels and bring on a temporary Diarrhoea. - I shall, I trust, see you at Mr. Methuen's on Friday or Thursday, according as the Weather may be. I am set down to work again, and in tolerable good spirits;" thanking him for the pheasant; his conclusion and signature have been cut away; sending his regards to Mrs. Brabant, William and Rufa.
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