BIB_ID
80116
Accession number
MA 1857.4
Creator
Bridger, Harry Colville, 1768-1832.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1794 June.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.7 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 to "Allen Esq're / Univ. Coll."
Robert (Bob) Allen was a contemporary of Coleridge and also attended Christ Hospital. It was in Allen's rooms at University College, Oxford that he introduced Coleridge to Robert Southey. Coleridge and his friend Joseph Hucks (1772-1800) were staying in Oxford for three weeks before their Welsh Tour.
The date of writing from Ernest Hartley Coleridge in a note to this letter written on a folder which originally enclosed this letter.
Written in the third person and dated "Magd : Coll : Sat. Morn."
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 to "Allen Esq're / Univ. Coll."
Robert (Bob) Allen was a contemporary of Coleridge and also attended Christ Hospital. It was in Allen's rooms at University College, Oxford that he introduced Coleridge to Robert Southey. Coleridge and his friend Joseph Hucks (1772-1800) were staying in Oxford for three weeks before their Welsh Tour.
The date of writing from Ernest Hartley Coleridge in a note to this letter written on a folder which originally enclosed this letter.
Written in the third person and dated "Magd : Coll : Sat. Morn."
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
Regretting that he is unable to have "...the pleasure of his & his Friends company today, as he is unavoidably engaged to some Lions whose arrival in Oxford I have but just head of. Allen, be kind enough to let your Friends know this in time as I don't know where to direct to any."
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