| Description |
189 items. |
| Summary |
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. As well, there are letters to Coleridge from Charles Lamb, Thomas Poole, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, dating from 1797 to 1829. |
| Restricted Access |
Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated. |
| Biography |
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. |
| Indexes |
Inventory list and card catalog available in repository. |
| Local Note |
Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation. |
| Subject |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
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| Genre/Form |
Commonplace books.
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Correspondence.
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Journals (Personal narratives).
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Notebooks.
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| Added Author |
Allsop, Thomas, 1795-1880.
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Chantrey, Francis, Sir, 1781-1841.
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Coleridge, George.
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Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849.
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Coleridge, Sara Fricker, d. 1845.
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Cottle, Joseph, 1770-1853.
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Frere, John Hookham, 1769-1846.
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Gillman, James, 1782-1839.
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Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863.
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Hessey, J. A. (James Augustus), 1785-1870.
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Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850.
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Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
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Poole, Thomas, 1765-1837.
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Reade, John Edmund, 1800-1870.
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Roskilly, Thomas, 1739 or 40-1803.
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Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
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Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845-1926.
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Wedgwood, Thomas, 1771-1805.
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Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
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Berg, Albert Ashton, 1872-1950, Former owner.
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Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938, Former owner.
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Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner.
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Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner.
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| Call No. |
Berg Coll MSS Coleridge
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| Research Call Number |
Berg Coll MSS Coleridge
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