Sara Coleridge:
An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Descriptive Summary
Creator: Coleridge, Sara, 1802-1852 Title: Sara Coleridge Collection Dates: 1791-1951, undated Extent: 15 boxes (6.30 linear feet) Abstract: Includes manuscripts and letters written and received by Sara Coleridge, the English translator, editor, and writer who was the daughter of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the wife of Henry Nelson Coleridge. Also present are a number of her personal papers as well as correspondence from members of the Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth families. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-0866 Language: English, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish Access: Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by: Joan Sibley and Michael Ramsey, 2012 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Coleridge, Sara, 1802-1852 Manuscript Collection MS-0866
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Works:
Container Untitled essay on jealousy, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. 1.1
Untitled poem, My babe unborn, I dream of thee…, handwritten manuscript/ copy,
4 pages, November 1833; copied by Sara Fricker Coleridge.
Untitled poem, The red rose is a beauteous flower…, handwritten manuscript/
copy, 1 page, February 1826.
Argument on the meaning of spiritual indwelling, handwritten manuscript, 4
pages, undated; argument with Mr. Abraham.
Asceticism, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 12 pages, undated.
Autobiography, handwritten manuscript written in two notebooks, 48 pages, 1851; notebooks labeled vol. I and vol. II; in vol. II are notes re Aubrey De Vere and other subjects.
Baptism, handwritten manuscript, 17 pages, undated.
Beauty, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 32 pages, July 1826.
Book of mourning, handwritten manuscript written in two notebooks, 51 pages,
1843-1851; vol. I also entitled Deaths of relations and friends.
The British Constitution, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 4 pages,
undated.
Children's Latin exercise book, handwritten manuscript written in notebook, 174 Container pages, 1836; originally an account book dated July 1830. 2.1
Children's verse cards, handwritten manuscript written on cards, 399 cards, undated; these verses formed the foundation for her Pretty lessons in verse for good children Container and Lessons in Latin. See also Kings of England from the conquest and Juvenile 2.2-10 poetry.
Children's verses, handwritten manuscript with revisions written in five notebooks, Container 520 pages total, 1834; cover titles include Herbert Coleridge volume I; Feline 2.11-12 family II; The Kid III; Latin 4; vellum notebook untitled.
Classic flowers, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 1 page, undated; written Container with this: untitled poem Mama does her best…, handwritten manuscript with 1.2 revision, 2 pages, undated.
Critique of Coleridge, handwritten manuscript, 3 pages, undated; "transcription
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Critique of Coleridge, handwritten manuscript, 3 pages, undated; "transcription from Penny Magazine"; includes receipt for £10 from Dixon, Brooks, and Dixon
to Mrs. Winthrop M. Praed, signed by Derwent Coleridge, handwritten manuscript/ photocopy, 1 page, 1849.
Critique of Dante and Milton, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 28 pages,
undated.
Critique of Fielding, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 22 pages, undated.
Diary, handwritten manuscript, 16 pages, February-2 May 1835.
Diary, handwritten manuscript written in notebook, 30 pages, 1844-1848;
primarily discourses on three sermons.
Diary, handwritten manuscript written in five notebooks, 997 pages total, 12 June Container 1848-24 April 1852; includes ALS from Sir Thomas Freemantle, Cottesloe to E. H. 1.3-4 Coleridge, 24 September 1915, re the diaries.
Diary covers, handwritten manuscript written on four covers, 8 pages, 1845-1848; Container one leaf of accounts is laid in. 1.2
Diary of her children's early years, handwritten manuscript, 68 pages, 1830-1838.
Doggrel (sic) charm; to a little lump of malignity, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 2
pages, 29 March 1852.
Dogmatism defended by a Protestant, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete with
corrections, 14 pages, 1838; cf. Memoir of Sara Coleridge, v. I, pages 223-228.
Essay on the sermons of Newman, 2 handwritten manuscripts/ fair copies, one 2
pages, the other 1 page, both undated.
Fine birds and their plain wives, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; written with this: untitled poem My Derwent! May you study nature's book…,
handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, 19 July 1834, and excerpt from a letter of Sara Coleridge re Fanny Coleridge, undated.
Howithorn: a narrative poem, handwritten manuscript/ drafts and draft fragments Container with revisions, 78 pages, 1848; includes the scheme of the poem; also titled Palfrey. 1.5
Journal of a European trip, handwritten manuscript, 37 pages, September 1841.
Journal of Bertha Fanny Coleridge's death, handwritten manuscript, 5 pages, July
1840.
Juvenile poetry, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 27 pages, undated.
Some items may relate to Children’s verse cards.
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Kings of England from the conquest, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 11
pages, undated. See also Children’s verse cards.
Map of Phantasmion, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
Matt. VI 28. 9, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 3 pages, undated.
Memoirs composed by Jean de Troye… Otherwise called The chronicles of Lewis of Valois…, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 296 pages, circa 1825; Container translation by Sara Coleridge of Histoire de Louys XI, roy de France by Jean de 3.1 Roye, published in 1620.
Container Nervousness, handwritten manuscript with revision, 24 pages, undated. 1.5
Notes on S. T. C's Church and state, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, undated.
On Wordsworth's poem entitled Lines left on a yew-tree seat, handwritten
manuscript with revisions, 15 pages, undated.
Our sweet Bertha Fanny, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Parody of Rogers, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, circa 1827; copied down Container by Edith Coleridge 14 December 1904. 3.2
Poetry, handwritten manuscripts with corrections, 52 pages, mostly undated; in
various hands.
Poetry, handwritten manuscript written in notebook, 120 pages, 1823-1851; includes Container juvenile poetry and translations. 3.3
Container Prayers, handwritten manuscript, 12 pages on cards; 17 pages; undated. 3.2
Pretty lessons in verse for good children—see Children’s verse cards. Container
Publishing history of S. T. Coleridge, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete with Container emendations, 1 page numbered 2, undated. 3.2
Questions for Mr. Quillinan to ask Mr. Wordsworth, handwritten manuscript, 2
pages, undated; answers written in by Mr. Quillinan?
Reflections, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 13 pages, 17-25 January 1850.
Regeneration and baptism: letters defending her views, handwritten manuscript/ Container partial drafts and fair copies, 141 pages, 1847-1849; includes letters to Mr. 3.4 Dodsworth, Mrs. Allies, J. H. Green, and John Duke Coleridge.
Regeneration dialogues, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 239 pages, undated; Container
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Regeneration dialogues, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 239 pages, undated; Container pages 106-131 lacking; several pages misnumbered. 3.5
Regeneration dialogues: on the idea of personality in reference to the incarnation of Container our Lord Jesus Christ, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 89 pages, 1851. 3.6
Regeneration dialogues: part I, chapter I, handwritten manuscript with corrections, Container 79 pages, undated. 4.1
Regeneration dialogues: part II, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 204 pages, Container undated. 4.2
Regeneration: esoteric and exotic doctrine: Part I, handwritten manuscript with Container revision, 76 pages, undated. 4.3
Regeneration: introduction, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 58 pages, 1850; Container "Remarks on Lord Lyttelton's letter to the Guardian … intended for introduction to 4.4 work on regeneration."
Container Regeneration: scripture texts, handwritten manuscript, 46 pages, undated. 4.5
Review of The princess; a medley by Tennyson, handwritten manuscript/ Container incomplete with corrections, 25 pages, undated; handwritten manuscript with 3.2 corrections, 34 pages, undated.
Review of Testimony of antiquity to the supremacy of the Holy See by Robert
Knox Sconce, handwritten manuscript, 11 pages, undated.
Review of The works of Beaumont and Fletcher with notes and a biographical memoir by Alexander Dyce; and The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Container introduction by George Darley, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 91 pages, 4.6 1848; handwritten manuscript with emendations, 128 pages, 1848.
Review of The works of Beaumont and Fletcher with notes and a biographical memoir by Alexander Dyce; and The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Container introduction by George Darley, 2 page proofs with corrections, 66 pages each, both 4.7 20 July 1848.
Container Scale of Wordsworth's poetry, handwritten manuscript, 15 pages, undated. 3.2
The seasons, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; written with this: untitled poem When Herbert's mama was a slim little maid…, handwritten
manuscript/ copy, 1 page and untitled poem The eyes of my Herbert are blue as the sky…, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated.
A sister's love, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; written with this:
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A sister's love, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; written with this:
From Petrarch, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 2 pages, undated.
Sonnet from Petrarch, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, 3 August 1819;
translation by Sara Coleridge.
Sonnet from Petrarch, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, 4 August 1819;
translation by Sara Coleridge.
To a little weanling babe, who returned a kiss with great eagerness, handwritten
manuscript, 1 page, undated; miscellaneous notes on verso.
To my father, on his lines called Work without hope, handwritten manuscript with
corrections, 2 pages, undated.
To my sister Mary whom I have never yet seen, 3 handwritten manuscripts, first 2 incomplete; 4 pages, 3 pages, and 7 pages; one dated 27 April 1828, 2 undated; each has ink or pencil notes or revisions.
To Susan with a purse, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; written for
Susan Patteson.
To Zoe King-Clifton, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 2 pages, 12 August 1823.
Valentine, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, 1817.
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Letters:
Note: for Grantz numbers cited below, see Grantz, Carl Leon. Letters of Sara Coleridge: A Calendar and Index to Her Manuscript Correspondence. (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1968.)
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, undated. Container 4.8
AL/ fragment to unidentified recipient, undated.
AL/ fragment to unidentified recipient, undated.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, undated; page 2 only.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, undated; page 3 only.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, undated, page 3 only.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, undated, page 3 only.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient re Aubrey De Vere, undated
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, circa 1835; on verso untitled poem The stork is drest in white and black…, handwritten manuscript with corrections, undated.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient re Henry Nelson Coleridge's death, circa
1843.
AL to unidentified recipient, 1844.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient, circa 1848.
ALS to Bickersteth, Edward, 6 November 1843; Grantz 1. Container 4.9
6 ALS to Brooke, Arabella, 1836-1839; Grantz 2-7.
49 ALS, 45 ALI, 9 AL, 10 AL/ incomplete, 2 ANS, 9 ANI, 5 AN to Coleridge, Container Derwent, 1820-1852, undated; includes notes, preface, and index to the 1852 edition 5.1-3 of S. T. Coleridge's poems; Grantz 8-142.
ALS, ANI to Coleridge, Derwent and Mary Pridham, 17 March 1849, undated; Container Grantz 456-457. 4.9
6 ALS, 5 ALI, 4 AL, 2 AL/ incomplete, AN to Coleridge, Edith, 1849-1851, Container undated; Grantz 458-475. 5.4
AL/ fragment to Coleridge, Edith, 19 August no year.
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Letters transcribed by Coleridge, Edith, for her memoir of her mother, 594 AL/ Container copies, 1833-1851; many are fragments of excerpts of letters; includes some copies 5.5-6.2 of originals not in the collection.
4 ALS, ALS/ incomplete, AL/ incomplete to Coleridge, Edward, 1843-1850, Container undated; Grantz 476-481. 6.3
ALS, ALI, AL/ incomplete to Coleridge, Edward and Mary Keate, 1842, undated;
Grantz 499-501.
2 ALS to Coleridge, Frances Duke Taylor, 6 January and 28 February 1834?; Container Grantz 693 and 694. 4.9
4 ALS, ALI/ incomplete to Coleridge, Francis George, 1842-1844, undated;
Grantz 502-506.
14 ALS, ALI, 9 AL/ incomplete, 5 ALS/ incomplete, 5 AL to Coleridge, Hartley, Container 1843-1848, undated; Grantz 508-541. 6.4
116 ALS, 6 ALI, 16 AL, AL/ incomplete, 4 ANS, ANI, 2 AN, to Coleridge, Henry Container Nelson, 1826-1841, undated; Grantz 542-691. 6.5-7.2
Container AN to Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 30 October 1837; not in Grantz. 7.1
Container AL/ incomplete to Coleridge, Herbert, 26 January 1843; Grantz 692. 4.9
ALS to Coleridge, Jane Hart "Aunt," 18 January 1827.
117 ALS, 3 ALS/ incomplete, 16 ALI, ALI/ incomplete, 11 AL, 5 AL/ incomplete, Container 23 ANS, ANS/ incomplete, 17 ANI, 23 AN, 7 AN/ incomplete, to Coleridge, John 7.3-8.1 Taylor, Sir, 1823-1852, undated; Grantz 695-918.
6 ALS, ALS/ incomplete, 8 ALI, AL/ incomplete, 2 ANS to Coleridge, Mary Keate, Container 1843-1851, undated; Grantz 482-498; 1 item not in Grantz. 8.2
97 ALS, 8 ALS/ incomplete, 95 ALI, 7 ALI/ incomplete, 21 AL, 23 AL/ incomplete, Container 9 ANS, 25 ANI, 3 ANI/ incomplete, 14 AN, 4 AN/ incomplete, 11 envelopes, to 8.3-9.4 Coleridge, Mary Pridham, 1826-1852, undated; Grantz 143-455.
Container 7 ALS, AL to Coleridge, Sara Eliza Rennell, 1849-1851, undated; Grantz 986-993. 9.5
34 ALS, 3 ALS/ incomplete, 13 ALI, 7 AL, 5 AL/ incomplete, ANS, 2 ANI, AN, to Container Coleridge, Sara Fricker, 1836-1845, undated; Grantz 919-983. 9.6
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Container ALS to Coleridge, Sarah Anne "Tittie," 5 January 1850; Grantz 984. 4.9
ALS to Coleridge, William Hart, 27 July 1849; Grantz 985.
ALS to Eastlake, Elizabeth Rigby, undated; Grantz 994.
20 ALS, ALS/ incomplete, 2 AL, 3 AL/ incomplete, 6 ANS, AN, 6 envelopes, to Container Erle, Peter, Mrs., 1840-1852, undated; Grantz 995-1033. 10.1
72 ALS, 4 ALS/ incomplete, ALI, 6 AL, 6 AL/ incomplete, 6 ANS, 14 AN, Container envelope, to Fenwick, Isabella, 1843-1851, undated; Grantz 1034-1143. 10.2-3
ALS to Fricker, Eliza, 20 September 1848; Grantz 1144. Container 4.9
ALS and AL to Gillman, Anne, 8 January 1849, undated; written during illness and death of Sara’s brother Hartley. Purchase, 1998 (R14201); not described in card catalog.
2 ALS to Hutton, Caroline Crompton, 1839, 18 March 1851; Grantz 1145-1146.
57 ALS, 3 ALS/ incomplete, 5 ALI, 4 AL, 9 AL/ incomplete, 4 ANS, 2 AN, 2 Container envelopes, to Jones, Henry Moultry, Mrs., 1835-1851, undated; Grantz 1147-1232. 10.4-5
2 ALS to Kenyon, John, July 1838; Grantz 1233-1234. Container 4.9
Container 2 ALS to Lawrence, Miss, 29 September 1834, 8 March 1843; Grantz 1235-1236. 11.1
ALS to Maurice, Anna Barton, 1843?; Grantz 1241. Container 4.10
5 ALS to Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1843-1846, undated; Grantz 1237-1240.
ALS/ draft to Moxon, Edward, 1843?; Grantz 1242.
AL to Palgrave, Reginald, 1834; Grantz 1243.
2 AL to Park, John Ranicar, 1839? Included are 2 handwritten manuscripts entitled Ezekiel's vision and handwritten manuscript on The literary remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Grantz 1244-1248.
ALS to Park, John Ranicar, Mrs., 1833?; Grantz 1249.
23 ALS, 4 ANS, ANI, to Parrott, Ann "Nurse," 1832-1850, undated; Grantz Container 1250-1277. 11.2
AL to Patteson, Joanna, November 1842; Grantz 1278. Container 4.10
2 ALS to Pickering, William, January 1843, 20 September 1848; included is a
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2 ALS to Pickering, William, January 1843, 20 September 1848; included is a
draft of the 1843 letter; Grantz 1279.
ALS/ copy to Pridham, Mr., 18 September 1844; not in Grantz.
ALS to Pridham, Mrs., 13 February 1850; Grantz 1280.
ALS to Quillinan, Edward, 5 July 1847; Grantz 1281.
ALS to Quillinan, Jemima, June 1847; Grantz 1282.
ALS to Savage, Miss, 24 March 1849; Grantz 1283.
2 ALS/ incomplete to Southey, Kate, undated; Grantz 1284-1285.
3 ALS, ANS to Townsend, Richard Edward Austin, 1843-1844; Grantz
1286-1289.
39 ALS, 2 AL, 3 AL/ incomplete to Townsend, Richard Edward Austin, Mrs., Container 1845-1849, undated; Grantz 1290-1333. 11.3
63 ALS, 4 ALS/ incomplete, 3 ALI, 6 AL, 3 AL/ incomplete, 3 ANS, ANS/ copy, Container ANI, 3 AN, 3 AN/ incomplete to Trevenen, Emily, 1829-1852, undated; Grantz 11.4-5 1334-1423.
12 ALS, 4 ALI, 2 AL/ incomplete to Wedgwood, Frances Mackintosh, 1846-1851, Container undated; Grantz 1424-1441. 11.6
Container AL/ incomplete to Wordsworth, William, 1843; Grantz 1442. 4.10
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Recipient:
Container Unidentified author. AL/ incomplete to Coleridge, Sara, undated. 12.1
Unidentified author. ALI to Coleridge, Sara, 14 February no year.
Alderson, Georgina Drewe. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 11 April 1851.
Baillie, Agnes. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 19 March no year.
Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Benson, Robert, 1797-1844. 12 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1843, undated.
Brodie, Benjamin Collins, Sir, 1783-1862. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 11 March
1843.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. 2 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 19 March and
16 April 1845.
Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, 1791-1860. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Chapman, J. 5 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1851.
Coleridge, Frances Anne Lovell. 2 ALI to Coleridge, Sara, 2 February and 1 June
1843.
Coleridge, Francis George, 1794-1854. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1843.
Coleridge, James Duke, 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1834-1835.
Coleridge, John Duke, Baron, 1820-1894. 9 ALI to Coleridge, Sara, 1842,
undated.
Coleridge, John Taylor, Sir, 1790-1876. 7 ALI to Coleridge, Sara, 1834-1849,
undated.
Coleridge, Mary Pridham, 1808-1887. ALI to Coleridge, Sara, 20 July no year.
Cunningham, A. Bruce. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 7 August 1851.
Container Dugdale, R. E., Mrs. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 2 August no year. 12.2
Eastlake, Elizabeth Rigby, 1809-1893. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1849-1851.
Evans, John. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1848.
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Farrer, F. F. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 12 February 1842.
Fox, Catherine, 1819-1871. ALI to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863. 15 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1842-1850,
undated.
Grove, William Robert, Mrs., AL/ incomplete to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Hare, Esther. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1846.
Hare, Julius Charles, 1795-1855. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1850.
Heraud, John Abraham, 1799-1887. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 15 May 1843.
Hersfield, Robert N. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 25 January 1843.
Hinckes, Theodosia. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 25 May 1851.
Hoare, Sarah, 1777-1856. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy, 1794-1860. 4 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1851,
undated.
Jones, Sara. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Kenyon, John, 1784-1856. 10 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1840-1849, undated.
Lockhart, John Gibson, 1794-1854. 10 ALS, 4 ALI to Coleridge, Sara, 1848, undated; includes ALS from Lockhart to John Taylor Coleridge, 15 January 1848 and a calling card.
Lovell, Mary Fricker. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 11 November 1840.
Container Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872. 2 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1843, undated. 12.3
Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858. 7 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1843-1851, undated.
Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Palgrave, Elizabeth Turner. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 8 February no year; also
includes ANI from Sir Francis Palgrave.
Palgrave, Francis, Sir, 1788-1861. 6 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1842-1851,
undated.
Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 3 May 1843.
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Park, Dr. AL to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Patteson, Frances Duke Coleridge. 2 ALI to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Patteson, Joanna Elizabeth. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Pickering, William, 1796-1854. 6 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1843-1849.
Poole, Thomas. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 13 November 1834.
Quillinan, Dorothy Wordsworth, 1804-1847. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 6 September 1829; also signed by Elizabeth, Catherine, and Ellen Senhouse; Edith
May, Bertha, and Katharine Southey; Isabella Wood and Charles Cuthbert Southey.
Quillinan, Edward. 11 ALS, 6 ALI, AL/ incomplete to Coleridge, Sara,
1841-1850, undated.
Reed, Henry. 5 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1849-1851. Container 12.4
Richmond, George, 1809-1896. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 15 April 1848.
Robinson, Henry Crabbe, 1775-1867. 15 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1846-1852.
Scott, Alexander John, 1805-1866. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 12 March 1845.
Southey, Sarah. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1 July 1847; includes notes by Sara
Coleridge on an unidentified review by Lockhart.
Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886. 17 ALS, 2 ALI, AL to Coleridge, Sara,
1846-1851, undated.
Ticknor, George, 1791-1871. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 6 November 1849.
Townsend, E. M. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated.
Townshend, Chauncey Hare, 1798-1868. 9 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1851-1853,
undated.
Webster, A. R. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 20 May 1851; includes Diaboli ambulatis Container matutina … The devil's walk translated into Latin verse by A. R. Webster, 1848. 12.5
Wordsworth, Mary Hutchinson, 1769-1859. 5 ALS, ALI to Coleridge, Sara re Hartley Coleridge, 1845-1849, undated; includes ALS to Sara Fricker Coleridge, undated and ALS to Mary Pridham Coleridge, undated.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, undated; body of
letter in Dora Wordsworth's hand.
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Yarnall, Ellis, 1817-1905. 3 ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 1851.
Yates, Raymond C. ALS to Coleridge, Sara, 29 December 1846.
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Miscellaneous:
Unidentified author:
Container Untitled Greek dialogue, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. 13.1
Untitled poem, All hail lovely Eskdale…, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated.
Untitled poem, My birth was a strange one…, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated.
Untitled poem, Tis told in legends that at eventide…, handwritten manuscript,
2 pages, undated.
Unidentified sermon, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages numbered 5-8, undated.
Additional fragment occasioned by the death of his son, handwritten
manuscript, 4 pages, undated.
Beethoven, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated; written with this: Beschreibrung eines Bilder and Pergolese, handwritten manuscript, 1 page each, both undated; in German.
Charade, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Commonplace book, handwritten manuscript, 28 pages, undated.
Description of a dream of revelation, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated; written with this Song by Moore, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
Dialogue in verse based on quote from Sale's Koran v. 2, p. 266, handwritten
manuscript, 4 pages, undated.
An enigma, 2 handwritten manuscript/ copies, 1 page each, both undated; one
copy in Sara Fricker Coleridge's hand.
Epitaph in Ottery Church on the wife of Gideon Sherman…, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; written with this handwritten manuscript/
copy of Sir Walter Raleigh's letter to his wife after his condemnation, 2 pages, undated.
Friendly advice to an invalid, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Juvenile notes, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
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The Lady of Watcombe, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, 1 January 1833?
Lines supposed to be written by a young lady previous to taking the veil…, handwritten manuscript, 3 pages, 27 March 1828; "these verses were inserted in the Morning Post."
List of playwrights, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
Maria, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, undated; in Spanish.
Mr. Teni Brady, Irish-American agitator, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated.
Nonsense verse, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
Prayer, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
Resignation, handwritten manuscript, 3 pages, undated; in German.
Respecting lady renters, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, October 1828.
A riddle, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
The story of Mars and Nerione, handwritten manuscript, 16 pages, undated.
To abstraction, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Travel route, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Die verlorene kirche, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, undated; in German.
What are the contents of a lady's dressing box emblematical of?, handwritten
manuscript, 1 page, 1830?
Woman, handwritten manuscript, 11 pages, undated.
2 AN to unidentified recipients, both undated.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient re changes in the church, undated.
AL/ incomplete to unidentified recipient re scriptural education for children,
undated.
AN re Vicious pleasures, undated; note attributes Vicious pleasures to Jeremy
Taylor instead of S. T. Coleridge; Sara Coleridge's notes on verso.
AL/ incomplete to Burton, undated.
AL to mother?, undated; written on greeting card.
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A., J. J. M. Lines on the ruins of Caerphilly Castle in Glamorganshire, initialed Container handwritten manuscript, 3 pages, 18 November 1826. 13.2
Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Signature, undated.
Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. ALS to Jones, Mrs. undated.
Bell, Andrew. ALS/ fragment to Coleridge, Miss, undated.
Blackburne, Thomas. To Cousin Mary, handwritten manuscript, 3 pages, undated.
Brabant, R. H. ALS, AL to Gillman, J. H., 3 June 1832, March 1836.
Bright, Richard, 1789-1858. ALS/ fragment to unidentified recipient, 12 October
1841.
Brydges, Samuel Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837. To Coleridge, handwritten manuscript/
copy, 1 page, 16 February 1837.
Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, 1791-1860. ALS to Robinson, Henry Crabbe, 1
July no year.
Clapcott, Sarah Anne Coleridge, 1833-1902. ALS to Coleridge, Mary Pridham, Container undated. 13.3
Coleridge, Edith, 1832-1911. Memoir of Sara Coleridge, handwritten manuscript,
37 pages and handwritten manuscript/ fragment, 6 pages, both undated.
Coleridge, Edith. Letters from H. N. and Sara Coleridge to Emily Trevenen re Edith Coleridge's christening, 2 ALS/ excerpts/ copies, 24 July 1832, 12 August
1832; original of July is in Coleridge, H. N./ Letters and of August letter is in Coleridge, S./ Letters.
Coleridge, Edward, 1800-1883. ALS to Fenwick, Isabella?, 2 October 1845;
included is a copy by Edith Coleridge.
Coleridge, Francis Syndercome, 1770-1792. ALS/ copy to Coleridge, Ann
Bowden, 20 September 1791.
Coleridge, Herbert, 1830-1861:
Commonplace book, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 226 pages, 1844-1851; includes poems in Greek and Latin copied and translated by Herbert Coleridge; Container initialed handwritten manuscript of an untitled poem by Henry Nelson Coleridge, 13.4 21 August 1828.
Container Juvenile writing exercises, handwritten manuscript, 13 pages, undated. 13.3
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3 ALS to Coleridge, Derwent, 1857?-1860.
3 ALS to Coleridge, Mary Pridham, 1851-1860.
Coleridge, James, 1759-1836. ALS to Southey, Robert, 22 August 1826.
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894. Preface to Phantasmion, by
Sara Coleridge, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 11 pages, 1874.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Untitled poem, Those pleasant hills high tow'ring into air…, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; transcribed by Sara Fricker Coleridge.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Transcript of Mr. Coleridge's contributions to the Debating Society's deliberations, handwritten manuscript, 10 pages, 1816-1817.
Coleridge, Sara, 1802-1852:
Container Book of recipes, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 90 pages, undated. 13.5
Certificate of marriage, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, 3 September 1829; Container written with this is an account of the wedding. 13.6
Commonplace book 1, handwritten manuscript written in notebook, 80 pages, 1823-1849; "the gift of the Misses Kennaways"; includes drawings and Container watercolors, and poems by Southey, Hartley Coleridge and others in their own 14.1 hands.
Commonplace book 2, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 134 pages, 1820-1845; "Edward Nash to Sara Coleridge"; includes drawings and Container watercolors, and poem by Hartley Coleridge entitled Minced Pie; seventeen 14.2 leaves loosely laid in.
Commonplace book 3, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 96 pages, Container 1826-1827; includes poems and notes in the hands of Henry Nelson and Sara 14.3 Coleridge; two leaves of poetry laid in.
Domestic account book, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 341 pages, Container 1845-1852. 14.4
Container Envelopes, handwritten manuscript, 22 envelopes, undated. 13.6
Family coat of arms, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
The history and adventures of Little Henry exemplified in a series of figures 19 Coleridge, Sara, 1802-1852 Manuscript Collection MS-0866
The history and adventures of Little Henry exemplified in a series of figures copied from the original for Herbert Coleridge, handwritten manuscript, 7 pages, undated.
Inscription to Herbert Coleridge, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated; copy by Ernest Hartley Coleridge; written with this copy of a note on Felix Hemmerlin.
List of friends and relatives for their hair collection, handwritten manuscript, 4
pages, undated.
List of qualifications and duties of a servant, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated.
Note on Dr. Pusey's sermon, 5 November 1847 in Edinburgh Review, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, 1838?; written on verso of ALS from S. Sherborne to Sara Coleridge, 9 February 1838.
Note on Joan of Arc by Robert Southey, handwritten manuscript, 1 page,
undated.
Note on Joseph Henry Green's concept of will in animals, handwritten
manuscript/ copy, 1 page, undated.
Note on the term "redeemed creation" as defined in Romans 8.22, handwritten
manuscript, 4 pages, undated.
Prescription for Sara Coleridge, initialed handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, 18
July 1849; initialed by Dr. Benjamin Brodie.
Quote from a review on M. Comte's course of Positive philosophy, handwritten
manuscript, 1 page, undated.
Registry of S. T. Coleridge's birth, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Statements of account and receipts, handwritten manuscript, 22 leaves,
undated; includes the accounts of H. N. Coleridge's funeral.
Coleridge, Sara Fricker, 1770-1845. ALS to Parrott, Ann "Nurse," re Sara Container Coleridge, 18 July 1840. 13.3
Container Dampier, Thomas, 1748-1812. Te deum, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 14.5
Denton, Mrs. Prayer, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated.
Dusantoy. Genealogy, handwritten manuscript, 6 pages, undated; incluedes obituary of James Dusantoy cut from the Illustrated London News, 29 January 1859. 20 Coleridge, Sara, 1802-1852 Manuscript Collection MS-0866
Elwyn, Alfred Langdon, 1804-1884. ALS to Moxon, Edward, 22 May 1838.
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria, 1765-1834. Enigma, handwritten manuscript, 2
pages, undated.
Flag, John. Promissory note to John Flag from the Ford Montague Bank, signed
form letter, 1 page, 179-.
Gillman, James, 1782-1839. Lines written to a patient recovering … accompanied
with a couple of ducks, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Graham, Mary. Untitled poem, Near dolfull (sic) vales and…, handwritten
manuscript, 4 pages, 1799; transcribed by Christopher Graham.
H., H. J. Hymn for grace, initialed handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated; written with this Evening hymn, initialed handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated; Enigma and answer, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated; written for Miss E. Fricker.
Harrison, Henry. ALS to Elliot, Harriett Warde Guilford, 10 September 1833.
Hemans, Charles Isidore, 1817-1876. ALS to Jones, H. M., Mrs., 30 July no year.
Hepworth, G. ALS to Darton, J., 23 April 1851.
Johnston, W. ALS to Townsend, E. M., Mrs., 4 June 1849.
Keen, Ellen. ALS to Hellmore, Thomas, 31 October 1860.
Kenyon, John, 1784-1856. Rose's witticism on the Gorham debate, handwritten
manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
King's College London. TLS to Coleridge, Anthony Derwent, 27 August 1951.
L., E. B. ALS/ incomplete to Lane, P., undated. Container 15.1
Lloyd, Owen, D. 1841. Hymn for the rush-bearing, handwritten manuscript/
copy, 2 pages, undated.
Lloyd, William. Lines written after an interview with a son of Coleridge, signed
handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Mackintosh, James, Sir, 1765-1832. AL to Hargrave, Francis, 12 August 1796.
Manston, A. T., ALS to Coleridge, Mr., 10 August 1846.
Marrion, J. Stanzas written during the illness of some intimate friends,
handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, undated.
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Marsh, James, 1794-1842. ALS to Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 16 July 1840.
Martin, Robert B. 4 TLS to Coleridge, Alwyne Hartley Buchanan, 1949.
Matthews, Joseph Daniel, Untitled poem, This heart my dear girl as a toy I receive…, initialed handwritten manuscript, 1 page, 1801; written to Emily Trevensen.
Money-Kyrle, James Stoughton. Language of my love, initialed handwritten manuscript in notebook, 48 pages, 1839; cover title "Rosa E. Money's own book"; 5 Container pages of poetry and a drawing laid in; includes ALS from Rosa Elizabeth Pridham 15.2 Money Philips to Ernest Hartley Coleridge, 22 June 1880.
Monteagle, Mary Anne Marshall, d. 1889. ALI to Taylor, Henry re Sara Coleridge's Container health, 20 November 1850; includes extract copied from the letter by Sara 15.1 Coleridge.
P., N. T. ALI/ copy to Southey, Robert?, 2 June 1817; written with this is the
reply.
Pickering (William) Publ. Financial statements for S. T. Coleridge's literary
executors, handwritten manuscripts, 24 leaves, 1848-1851.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch Salisbury Thrale, 1741-1821. ANI to Trevenen, Emily,
undated.
Praed, Helen Bogle, d. 1863. Inscription for Helen Praed's tombstone,
handwritten manuscript in unknown hand, 1 page, undated.
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 1802-1839. On Queen Adelaide, handwritten
manuscript, 2 pages, 1831.
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, 1802-1839. Sacred to the … memory of W. M. P.,
handwritten manuscript in unidentified hand, 1 page, undated.
Prideaux, _____. ALS to Coleridge, Mr., undated.
Quillinan, Dorothy Wordsworth, 1804-1847. ALS to Trevenen, Emily, 17 January Container 1831. 15.3
Quillinan, Edward, 1791-1851. ALS to Southey, Kate, 16 June 1847.
Reed, Henry, 1808-1854. Obituary on Sara Coleridge in The Literary World, no. 290; printed with handwritten emendations and a handwritten after note by Emily Trevenen, 8 pages, 21 August 1852.
Richmond, George, 1809-1896. Signature, undated.
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Rion, Edward, 1758?-1801. Battle of the Baltic, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 4
pages, undated.
Rocherd, S. T. C., Miss. Poems, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated.
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843:
Container Note on Gabriel Harvey's Foure letters, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. 15.3
On the portrait of Reginald Heber, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 10 pages,
undated.
Verse, signed Rumplestitchkin and Hurlyburly bus (Robert Southey's cats), handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, 9 January no year; perhaps by Hartley Coleridge.
Stanley, Henry Morton, Sir, 1841-1904. ALS/ facsimile of John Rowlands to
Morris, Thomas, 2 June 1848; included is a printed note re the letter.
Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886. Untitled poem, Time was, Virginia, when the
poem made by passionate nature…, handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, undated.
Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886. Epigrams after reading an article on Southey's life, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated; included is an envelope dated 2 April 1851.
Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Announcement of a benefit performance of Macbeth,
handwritten manuscript, 1 page, 27 April 1836 (date of performance).
Townshend, Chauncey Hare, 1798-1868. Sonnet, Written on the bank of a small river, where some snowdrops grew, signed handwritten manuscript, 1 page, 20 October 1818.
Trevenen, Emily. Poems, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 84 pages, 1816-1835; Container "To Mrs. H. N. C. from her affectionate friend E. T. June 10 1835." 15.4
Vaughan, Henry. Early rising and prayer, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 4 pages, 17 Container January no year. 15.5
Walker, William Sydney, 1795-1846:
Eulogistic poem of William Mackworth Praed, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, Container undated; in Latin. 15.5
Poems, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 63 pages, 1832.
Textual comment on a Shakespeare work, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages,
undated. 23 Coleridge, Sara, 1802-1852 Manuscript Collection MS-0866
Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1797-1864. ALS to Redding, 12 February no year.
Wedd, C. W. ALS/ copy to Coleridge, John Duke, Baron, re Phantasmion, 6
April 1874.
Wedgwood, Josiah. 2 ALS to Coleridge, Francis George Frank, 10 April and 8
June 1810.
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833. ALS to Jephson, Rev., 31 October 1809.
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833. AL/ fragment to Southey, Robert, undated.
Wordsworth, Mary Hutchinson, Signature, undated.
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Miscellaneous I:
Coleridge, Sara, 1802-1852, compiler. Testimonial letters for Richard Edward Austin Townsend concerning his application for Queen's Proctor, 67 ALS, 1837-1848; includes letters from Sir Robert Peel, Sir George Clerk, Sir Thomas Reynolds Ducie, Edward Denison, Thomas Sheppard, Philip Miles, Thomas Davis, Sir Francis Wemyss, T. S. Lea, F. Carleton, Sir James Tennent, Sir John Winmarleigh, Francis George Coleridge, Sir T. D. Acland, Charles W. Martin, Henry Goulbarn, William Wordsworth, Donald Maclean, Sir John Henniker, Lord Container Ranelagh, John Wallington, W. T. Praed, Sir James Wigram, John Ruskin, Ambrose 15.6-9 Hussey, Edward Coleridge, Sir W. B. Midleton, C. G. Du Pré, John Greenwood, Sir Edward St. Germans, George Warburton, Alexander Beattie, Sir Herbert of Lea, Sir Christopher Codrington, William T. Maunsell, J. A. Wickham, George Arbuthnot, Henry Lucas, Menzies and Maconochie, T. Garrard, J. P. Heywood, Sara Coleridge, Sara Fricker Coleridge, T. N. Talfourd, William Howley, Henry Nelson Coleridge, W. W. Haweis, John Boll, Aubrey Spencer, Daniell, D. M. Clerk, C. B. A. Knott, Richard Sadler, and two unidentified authors.
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Explanatory Note Concerning Manuscript Collections Cataloged in the Card Catalog Prior to 1990 when archival cataloging procedures were adopted at the Ransom Center, all manuscript collections were described in a card catalog. Organization of Collections: Manuscripts for each author collection were organized into four categories: Works: manuscripts by the author, arranged alphabetically by title; Letters: the author’s outgoing correspondence, arranged alphabetically by recipient name; Recipient: the author’s incoming correspondence, arranged alphabetically by the author of the letter; and Miscellaneous: all other manuscripts and correspondence, arranged alphabetically by creator.
Materials that did not fit into these categories, such as art, photographs, books, and near-print materials such as newspaper clippings, were dispersed to other Ransom Center collections for cataloging and storage.
Abbreviations Used in Descriptions: The symbols below were used in combinations. For example ALS means autograph letter signed; Tccms means typed carbon copy manuscript, etc. A = autograph (i.e., handwritten) T = typed S = signed I = initialed Ms = manuscript Mss = manuscripts L = letter FL = form letter N = note D = document C = card PC = post card cc = carbon copy p = page pp = pages l = leaf ll = leaves nd = no date inc d = incomplete date
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