Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Malta, to Robert Southey, 1804 July 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID:

415615

Accession number:

MA 1848.74

Author:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Created:

Malta, 1804 July 6.

Credit:

Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.

Description:

1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.6 x 11.4 cm

Notes:

This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel with seal: "Robert Southey, Esqre / Greta Hall / Keswick / by favor of the Revd F. Laing."

Summary:

Introducing him to the Reverend Francis Laing, a fellow alumnus of Balliol College, Oxford; saying that he has written at greater length about him in a letter to Sara; saying that he has been very kind to him and is "a modest, sensible, & every way amiable man"; adding that Sir Alexander Ball's son is traveling with him; concluding "I think of you ever yearningly & with habitual affection."

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