This journal extract geolocated in Watchet can be a little difficult to decipher, but it is a good example of the diversity and flexibility of notes within Coleridge's journals. Written during the time when he lived in Nether Stowey it contains in infamous nugget which describes him whisking his son outside in tears, the boy see the moon and is transfixed, ceasing his crying.
These journal extracts are from the manuscript often referred to as The Gutch Book MS27901 and are just four pages from the whole.
Chapter one
The Fly Catchers
Chapter two
Other Fly Catchers
There are two other Fly Catcher journals which I have installed around West Somerset, but all three have be relocated here at Halsway Manor.
Nether Stowey - Geolocated on the mound of Nether Stowey Castle you will be able to read, penned in Coleridge's hand, a poem authored by William Wordsworth. The poem is dedicated to Coleridge's son Hartley who was six years old at the time.
Porlock Weir - Kubla Khan, the most famous of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's works, and geo-located on the atmospheric harbour.
Nether Stowey - Geolocated on the mound of Nether Stowey Castle you will be able to read, penned in Coleridge's hand, a poem authored by William Wordsworth. The poem is dedicated to Coleridge's son Hartley who was six years old at the time.
Porlock Weir - Kubla Khan, the most famous of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's works, and geo-located on the atmospheric harbour.
Turn right and walk in a clockwise manor around the grounds, the next chapter should reveal as you walk toward the little thatch building.
