BIB_ID
417320
Accession number
MA 77.11
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1798 January 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the date of writing at the end of the letter. The date has also been added at the start of the letter in red ink in an unknown hand.
Place of writing taken from the postmark.
This collection, MA 77, is comprised of fifteen letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Thelwall, one letter from Coleridge to Susannah (called "Stella") Thelwall, two letters from John Thelwall to Susannah Thelwall, one letter from Peter Crompton to John Thelwall, and one incomplete draft of an article on the death of Queen Charlotte. The letters were written from 1796 to 1803, and the draft may have been written in 1818.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Thelwall / Llynswen, / Brecknockshire / to be left at the three Cocks in the / road to Brecknock - By the Hay Bag."
Place of writing taken from the postmark.
This collection, MA 77, is comprised of fifteen letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Thelwall, one letter from Coleridge to Susannah (called "Stella") Thelwall, two letters from John Thelwall to Susannah Thelwall, one letter from Peter Crompton to John Thelwall, and one incomplete draft of an article on the death of Queen Charlotte. The letters were written from 1796 to 1803, and the draft may have been written in 1818.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Thelwall / Llynswen, / Brecknockshire / to be left at the three Cocks in the / road to Brecknock - By the Hay Bag."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904. Removed from a bound volume in June 1967.
Summary
Saying that he had written back to Thelwall and sent the letter to Derby; explaining that in this letter he described his and Dr. Thomas Beddoes's exchange about procuring assistance for Thelwall, and that since he had not heard from Thelwall, he had assumed that Beddoes's personal help was not needed; adding that it appears Thelwall did not receive his letter, "for which I am sorry - but I have lately had a letter from me to Mr Wedgewood intercepted, and I suspect the country post masters greviously;" sending news of his family: "My Wife & Baby are well - and I shall probably kiss my youngest boy in April;" writing that he was invited to be the Unitarian minister at Shrewsbury and at the same time, he received £100 from Thomas and Josiah Wedgwood: "I accepted the former, & returned the latter in a long letter explanatory of my motives - & went off to Shrewsbury, where they were on the point of electing me unanimously & with unusual marks of affection, when I received an offer from T. & J. Wedgewood - of an annuity of 150£ to be legally settled on me. - Astonished, agitated, & feeling as I could not help feeling, I accepted the offer - in the same worthy spirit, I hope, in which it was made - And this morning I have returned from Shrewsbury, & am now writing in [Joseph] Cottle's Shop;" saying that he will be in Stowey in a few days and will write further from there; adding "Unhusbandize your lips, & give the kiss of fraternal love to Stella, for me;" adding that he is "hurried off - & can only say that I think of you often - & never without affectionate esteem -."
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