BIB_ID
415875
Accession number
MA 1855.1-13
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1794-1832.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
13 items (38 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
This collection, MA 1855, is comprised of thirteen autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients, written from August 5, 1794 through March 1, 1832. The recipients include Derwent and Hartley Coleridge, William Hart Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Thomas Poole and Dorothy Wordsworth.
These letters are 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.
The letters were originally accompanied by short summaries in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge. These summaries have been removed and are housed in the Collection File.
These letters are 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.
The letters were originally accompanied by short summaries in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge. These summaries have been removed and are housed in the Collection File.
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
Being a collection of thirteen autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients written between 1794 and 1832. Letters in the collection have been described individually in thirteen separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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