BIB_ID
416294
Accession number
MA 1856.42
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1833 April 14.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.3 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1856, is comprised of 48 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green and 2 autograph manuscripts, written between 1817 and 1834. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1856.1-50).
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 with seal and postmarks: "J.H. Green, Esqre / &c &c / Lincoln's Inn Fields."
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 with seal and postmarks: "J.H. Green, Esqre / &c &c / Lincoln's Inn Fields."
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 hears that influenza is widespread in Highgate and London, and he hopes that it was not the reason for the Greens missing their visit today (a Sunday); asking Green to send "a single line from you by return of Post -- just to say, how you are. Our own has been a House of Sickness -- but all, I trust, all convalescent. Mr & Mrs Gillman were both violently attacked -- Mr G. quite delirious for about 12 Hours"; adding that he himself is "in the average of my endurable state"; describing the course of his day, including when he wakes up and goes to sleep, what he eats and drinks, and what medicines he is taking in what dosages ("for I take the opiate draught, containing two very small tea spoonfuls of Laudanum only once in the 24 Hours -- not a third of what I used to take twice a day"); describing his symptoms in the evening: "at about 10, my Bed is made, & in about half an hour commences the Delirium in both my Legs & Feet, of Heat, intense Itching, & the Sensation of a Blow-up -- This remits into an itchiness of my Arms, Back &c -- under which I fall asleep -- & with one or two inter-wakes sleep till day-light -- And thus you have the History of my 24 Hours"; adding "I have not gone backward -- I make no progress. -- May God grant me removal, or the power of using the time assigned to me --."
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