Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, place not specified, to Sara Coleridge, 1802 January 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID:

414890

Accession number:

MA 1849.1

Author:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Created:

Place not specified, 1802 January 17.

Credit:

Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.

Description:

1 item (2 pages) ; 23.8 x 18.0 cm

Notes:

This collection, MA 1849, is comprised of forty-six autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his wife, Sara Coleridge, written between 1802 and 1824.
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.

Summary:

Telling her that Davy "...begins his Lectures, much earlier than I expected - & I am determined to attend the whole course;" adding that if all goes as he hopes he expects to return to her by the middle of March; adding that his health is improved and urging her to "...make your[self] flannel Drawers, &c, as I advised - [and] instantly, get the fluid Essence [of] Mustard - & that you have already [begun] to take the Mustard Pills, night & morning. Do it regularly & perseverant[tly,] or it will not signify a farthing."

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.

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Department:

Literary and Historical Manuscripts