BIB_ID
416345
Accession number
MA 1856.49
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not identified, between 1830 and 1834.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Notes
The document is not dated, but based on the contents it must have been written after 1830, when the annuity given to Royal Associates was discontinued.
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 item 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.
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 item 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
Consisting of a summary of his address to the Royal Society on his election, followed by a paragraph describing what happened when the annual grant allotted to Associates was discontinued: "The result, I, S.T. Coleridge, faithfully abided by my engagement -- but when old age and encreasing bodily infirmities had conspired to disqualify me for undertaking any of the [higher? lighter?] & only bread-winning kinds of writing, the annuity was suddenly withdrawn, not only without any notice or preparation" (the text ends here).
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