Derwent Coleridge: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883 Title: Derwent Coleridge Collection Dates: 1811-1883, undated Extent: 9 boxes (3.78 linear feet), 5 oversize folders (osf) Abstract: Includes manuscripts and letters written by Derwent Coleridge, the English educator, scholar and author who was the son of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as some of his personal papers and incoming correspondence. Correspondents include his wife, Mary Pridham Coleridge, Richard Henry Dana, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Moultrie, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and numerous others, including many members of the Coleridge and related families. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-0854 Language: English, French, Greek 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, Derwent, 1800-1883 Manuscript Collection MS-0854 2 Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883 Manuscript Collection MS-0854 Works: Unidentified note, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Container 1.1 Untitled poems: Edith, gifts of gems and gold…, handwritten manuscript written in notebook, 1 Container page, 29 June 1862; notebook also includes newspaper clipping of a lecture by 1.2 Derwent Coleridge entitled Poetry as a teacher. He who sets about composing…, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated; Container written with this: two other untitled poem drafts, handwritten manuscripts, 1 page 1.1 each, undated. I've a wife, when she's up, she is merry and wise…, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, 8 September 1838. Oh argue not this bodily need…, handwritten manuscript, 2 pages, undated. On magnificence intent I this day my spouse present…, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, undated. Not in card catalog. Address given at the dedication of St. Mark's Church, Hanwell, 11 proofs, 1 page each, 1879. Beauty, handwritten manuscript, 7 pages, 1820. A brother's love, handwritten manuscript in Mary Coleridge's hand with corrections by Derwent Coleridge, 4 pages, undated. Commonplace books, handwritten manuscript in notebooks: 74 pages, undated. Container 1.3 146 pages, 1818; 2 leaves of poetry loosely laid in. Container 1.4 54 pages, June 1820. Container 1.5 Diary, handwritten manuscript/ fragment, 3 pages, 1827. Container 1.1 Early recollections, handwritten manuscript written in notebook, 8 pages, undated; 4 pages loosely laid in. The epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 2 pages, undated; written with this: lecture to the Nobody's Club, and lecture on the R. D. School. Essay on Robert Jameson, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 15 pages, 3 Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883 Manuscript Collection MS-0854 Essay on Robert Jameson, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 15 pages, undated. An essay on the poetic character of Percy Bysshe Shelley, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 27 pages, undated; copy by Sara Dusantoy. Eulogy and reminiscence of John Moultrie, signed handwritten manuscript/ incomplete in Mary Coleridge's hand with corrections in Derwent Coleridge's hand, 13 pages, undated. In re National Review and Renan's Vie de Jesus, signed handwritten manuscript Container with corrections, 13 pages, 27 October 1863. 1.6 Lectures: Container The missionary labourer, handwritten manuscript, 18 pages, 20 December 1865. 1.6 On the R. D. School, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 8 pages, 30 July Container 1865; written with: The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans, 1.1 handwritten manuscript with corrections, 2 pages, undated. On Wordsworth, handwritten manuscript/ copy, 44 pages, undated; copy by Container Sarah Dusantoy. 1.6 Poetry as a teacher, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete, 4 pages, 16 May 1862. Re education, handwritten manuscript with emendations, 21 pages, 12 July 1867; given at a conference of the London clergy and certain laymen. To the Nobody's Club, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 5 pages, 25 May Container 1865; written with: The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans, 1.1 handwritten manuscript with corrections, 2 pages, undated. Mary; a record of feeling, handwritten manuscript with emendations in notebook, 65 Container pages, January-March 1825. 1.7 Container Mary's love, signed handwritten manuscript, 4 pages, 25 December 1824. 1.6 A memoir of Hartley Coleridge, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 344 pages Container and handwritten manuscript/ fragment, 36 pages, both undated; partially in another 2.1-2 hand. Container My staircase; scalarum tenebrae, handwritten manuscript, 21 May 1865. 1.6 Container An ode to Malvern, handwritten manuscript, 1 page, August 1861. 2.3 4 Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883 Manuscript Collection MS-0854 On poetry, handwritten manuscript in another hand with corrections by Derwent Container Coleridge, 40 pages, undated. 2.4 On the nature of poetry, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete, 34 pages, undated; Container "Essay I." 2.5 On the objects and tendency of poetry, handwritten manuscript in another hand with Container corrections by Derwent Coleridge, 41 pages, undated; "Lecture III." 2.6 A patient's statement of his own case by a lay physician, handwritten manuscript, 2 Container pages, undated. 2.3 Podagra; a didactic poem by the spirit of John Milton, signed handwritten manuscript, 2 pages and handwritten manuscript with corrections, 15 pages, undated and November 1872. Poems, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 8 pages total, 1825; titles include: Two sonnets, To Una, and an untitled poem. Practical suggestions on the training of school masters, signed handwritten manuscript with corrections, 3 pages, undated; included is the draft of a letter to Lord Henry Labouchere Taunton on this subject, undated; one page loosely laid in. Readings from the Lake poets, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 2 pages, 28 December 1865; in back of notebook: notes from a meeting, 3 pages, undated. Senilia; new tunes by an old Harker, handwritten manuscript with corrections, 37 pages, 1872. Senilia; new verses by an old rhimer (sic), handwritten manuscript, 6 pages, 1872. To the Tellix- a tree locust- paraphrased from Anacreon, handwritten manuscript in notebook, 2 pages, undated; included are some miscellaneous notes, 5 pages. 5 Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883 Manuscript Collection MS-0854 Letters: To unidentified recipients: ALI/ incomplete/ copy, undated. Container 2.7 ALS/ copy, 5 December no year. 2 ALS/ copies re The Stamford School, 26 and 30 January 1833. AccL/ incomplete, 30 May 1843. ALS, 26 March 1845. AL/ copy, 23 August 1849; copied by Mary Pridham Coleridge. ALS, 17 January 1853. AL/ extracts/ copy re F. D. Maurice, 10 November 1862. ALS to _____, John re John Moultrie's death, 28 December 1874. 3 ALS/ drafts to Acland, Thomas Dyke, Sir, 1844-1877. 3 ALS/ copies to Arnold, Thomas, 1833. ALS/ copy to Battersea Training Institution Council re Samuel Clark, 8 March 1851. 5 ALS/ drafts, AL/ draft to Blomfield, Charles James, 1843-1855, undated. ALS to Brooke, Arabella, 28 May 1851. ALS/ extracts/ copy to C_____, H., Rev., 10 August 1834. Container 3.1 5 ALS, ALI to Clark, Samuel, 1847-1874, undated. ALS to Clutten, Henry, 6 October 1856. ALS, AL/ draft to Coleridge, Christabel Rose "Sissy," 9 July 1853, 30 November no year; 30 November letter written in verse. ALS to Coleridge, Derwent Moultrie, 29 July 1843. 2 AL/ copies to Coleridge, Derwent Moultrie, November 1853, 3 May no year. 2 ALS to Coleridge, Edward, 7 January 1849, 23 May 1866. 6 Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883 Manuscript Collection MS-0854 ALS to Coleridge, Ernest Hartley and Christabel Rose, 7 April 1856. 16 ALS, ALI to Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1858-1880. Container ALS, ALI to Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 6 November 1828, 30 September 1840. 3.2 ALS, 2 ALI to Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 1834-1838. ALS, AL/ copy to Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, 15 October and 13 November 1869. 2 ALS, 2 ALS/ copies to Coleridge, John Taylor, Sir, 1863-1869. Container 301 ALS, 2 ALS/ fragments, 48 ALI, 17 AL, 8 AL/ fragments, 3 AN to Coleridge, 3.3-4.1;osf Mary Pridham, 1825-1876, undated. 1-2 Container ALS, AL/ incomplete, 2 AL/ copies to Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1840-1848. 3.2 4 ALS, ALI to Coleridge, Sarah Fricker, 1816-1837. Container 4.2 Container AL/ copy to Cottle, Joseph, 11 June 1836; copied by Emily Trevenen. 3.2 ALS/ copy to De Quincey, Thomas, 9 July 1853; copied by Mary Pridham Container Coleridge. 4.3 ALS to D'Oyly, Charles James, 31 August 1871. ALS/ copy to Duncan, J., 20 December 1874; copied by Mary Pridham Coleridge. ALS/ copy, AL/ copy to Ely, Dean of re The Stamford School, 30 January 1833, undated. ALS/ copy to the English, Scottish and Australian Bank, Sydney, Australia, 26 September 1882. AL/ draft to Gillman, Anne, Spring 1843. ALI/ copy to Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, 13 March 1860. ALS to the Helston Church, 26 March 1845. ALS to Helps, Arthur, Sir, 11 March 1868. ALS to Heraud, John Abraham, 27 January 1843. 7 Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-1883 Manuscript Collection MS-0854 2 ALS/ copies to Hessey, James Augustus, both dated 29 May 1855. AL/ draft to Hopwood, Frank G., 2 February 1859. 2 ALS, ALS/ copy to Jackson, John, 1871-1876. ALS/ copy to Kay-Shuttleworth, James Phillips, Sir, 1 November 1850; copied by Container Mary Pridham Coleridge. 4.4 AL/ incomplete to Key, 29 November 1862. ALS to King, 19 August 1861. 2 ALS, ALS/ copy to Lawrence, Mary, 1811-1852. 6 ALS, ALI, AL/ draft to Lietch, David, Dr., 1853-1871, undated. ALS to London. School Committee. Chairman, 31 March 1840. Container AL/ copy to M_____, 10 September no year, copied by Mary Pridham Coleridge.