Samuel Taylor Coleridge collection of papers

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Description
This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence, a journal for 1798, notebooks kept for 1814 through 1832, legal documents, and a commonplace book. The manuscripts include poems, essays, lectures, notes for Greek and Latin language studies, and other holograph material by the author, as well as essays, incomplete manuscripts, and poems relating to the author by Thomas De Quincey, James Russell Lowell, Algernon Charles Swinburne and others. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1791 to 1834, from the author to Thomas Allsop, his brother George Coleridge, his wife Sara, Joseph Cottle, John Hookham Frere, James Gillman Jr., Joseph Henry Green, J. A. Hessey, Francis Jeffrey, Thomas Poole, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1835 to 1894, between various correspondents including Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, Hartley Coleridge, Joseph Henry Green, Joseph Cottle, James Gillman, Robert Southey, and John Edmund Reade. Also present is a 122-page letter-book of copies in Thomas Ward's hand, of letters to Sara Coleridge, Thomas Poole, the Rev. Roskilly, and Thomas Wedgwood. There are letters to Coleridge from Charles Lamb, Thomas Poole, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, dating from 1797 to 1829.
Names
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 (Creator)
Allsop, Thomas, 1795-1880 (Addressee)
Berg, Albert A., 1872-1950 (Former owner)
Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938 (Former owner)
Chantrey, Francis, Sir, 1781-1841 (Author)
Coleridge, George (Addressee)
Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849 (Author)
Coleridge, Sara Fricker, -1845 (Addressee)
Cottle, Joseph, 1770-1853 (Addressee)
Frere, John Hookham, 1769-1846 (Addressee)
Gillman, James, 1782-1839 (Addressee)
Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863 (Addressee)
Hessey, J. A. (James Augustus), 1785-1870 (Addressee)
Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) (Former owner)
Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850 (Addressee)
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 (Author)
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (Author)
Poole, Thomas, 1765-1837 (Addressee)
Reade, John Edmund, 1800-1870 (Addressee)
Roskilly, Thomas, 1739 or 1740-1803 (Addressee)
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (Author)
Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845-1926 (Transcriber)
Wedgwood, Thomas, 1771-1805 (Addressee)
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855 (Author)
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 (Author)
Young, Owen D., 1874- (Former owner)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1791 - 1894
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Coleridge
Topics
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Genres
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Diaries
Notebooks
Documents
Books
Notes
Biographical/historical: Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, essayist, and literary critic. Born on October 21, 1772 in Devonshire, Coleridge became renowned throughout Britain and Europe as one of the Romantic Lake Poets.
Content: Card catalog available.
Acquisition: This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.
Physical Description
Extent: 189 items
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15893392
MSS Unit ID: 19170
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 40790c10-21e4-0134-f94a-00505686d14e
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