BIB_ID
416381
Accession number
MA 1857.15
Creator
Stoddart, John, 1773-1856.
Display Date
Bath and London, England, 1800 December 30 and 1801 January 1.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.9 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1857, includes seventeen autograph letters signed from various correspondents to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three autograph letters signed to Robert Southey, one each from Edward Coleridge, John Taylor Coleridge and Sara Fricker Coleridge and two autograph letters signed from William Wordsworth, one to Robert Southey and one to Joseph Henry Green. This collection of letters dates from 1794-1834.
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 with postmark to "Mr. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
This letter was started on December 30, 1800 from Bath and was completed on January 1, 1801 from London.
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 with postmark to "Mr. Coleridge / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
This letter was started on December 30, 1800 from Bath and was completed on January 1, 1801 from London.
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
Offering his impressions upon meeting [Humphry] Davy; saying "He is a good little fellow, He carries some heart in his head, a thing very uncommon in a natural philosopher. I regret that I had not time to enter more deeply into his character, and perhaps any desire to do much made me do little in that way - but as far as I could come into contact with his mind I was very much pleased with it;" encouraging Coleridge to come to London "...to improve your dramatic taste at the Theatre; but of your own interest you are the best judge, of my feelings I am, & I confess that your society is a treat on which I have feasted so long in imagination, that I shall be much disappointed if I have not a slice or two of the reality;" discussing a loan he has taken in order to repay some debts; saying he has written some essays which he would like to have Coleridge read; continuing the letter from London on January 1, 1801; saying he has had a letter from Wordsworth "...recommending me to enlist in the Monthly Fencibles but little know I of their soft phrase, for till now some 3 moons wasted I never dreamt of criticising & know not one of that Corps - If my literary Talents entitle me to become 'an occasional Writer in the British Critic' tis all I can hope - the Christian humility of Dr. Parr aspired no higher, & shall I who am nothing to that great man lift myself into a loftier pulpit - Yet if I can contrive to seep into the monthly I will;" encouraging him to come to London.
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