BIB_ID
118030
Accession number
MA 1857.20
Creator
Stuart, Daniel, 1766-1846.
Display Date
London, England, 1802 September.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.1 x 18.4 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1857, includes seventeen autograph letters signed from various correspondents to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three autograph letters signed to Robert Southey, one each from Edward Coleridge, John Taylor Coleridge and Sara Fricker Coleridge and two autograph letters signed from William Wordsworth, one to Robert Southey and one to Joseph Henry Green. This collection of letters dates from 1794-1834.
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Place and date of writing inferred from contents of this letter and the previous letter from Stuart to Coleridge postmarked on September 23, 1802. (MA 1857.19). This letter is likely written late in September.
Address panel to "S. T. Coleridge Esq're / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Place and date of writing inferred from contents of this letter and the previous letter from Stuart to Coleridge postmarked on September 23, 1802. (MA 1857.19). This letter is likely written late in September.
Address panel to "S. T. Coleridge Esq're / Greta Hall / Keswick / Cumberland."
Provenance
Purchased from Joanna Langlais in 1957 as a gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mr. Homer D. Crotty, Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, Mr. Robert H. Taylor and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne. Formerly in the possession of Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, Baron Latymer.
Summary
Concerning the freedom of the Press and the anti-Bonaparte sentiment in the country; acknowledging receipt of the remainder of his essay on France and Rome saying "I have received the last of the Comparison. The whole forms an excellent article & I really assure you it is much admired. Peltier is translating it for his Journal...The best of all is the sale of the Paper which has been drooping since May as it always does, is now lively & recovering though the Season for that is not till november - You see I reserve your articles for such days as I stand in need of matter. My prudence was awake before I had your injunctions. I doubted on the passage comparing Bonaparte to Tiberius, so did Mackintosh, he after, I before it appears, but I resolved on it and would do it again & again for reasons too long to enumerate. - In the last part of the 2nd part this Day I have altered Tyrant to Despot. The third part I have not yet considered though it is setting; but I shall & do consider them all so well that you need not suppose I shall fall into a scrape from negligence - Sheridan I have seen since I told you of what I had heard - He did not say it so strongly as I told you. He said he intended most decidedly to abuse Bonaparte in Parliament & spoke of the Press only from a wish to prevent harsh measures against it - Mackintosh dined with the Attorney General on Monday night - The A.G. said he had filed the information ag't Peltier - no doubt remains as to numerous & unqualified Libels by him. The Attorney G. said he had been instructed by Gov't to watch all the Newspapers. - He had read them closely : - he saw many imprudent things in them ag't Bonaparte & which with vigour & harshness might be prosecuted; but he had seen nothing which was not necessary to free discussion, & to attack them would be to attack the Liberty of the Press. Rather than Prosecute any of them said he I will throw up my situation! This was handsome. - It is Perceval. In fact there never was a more unanimous spirit in this Country of hatred ag't Bonaparte by the war faction because he has defeated them, and of disgust & indignation among the friends of Liberty at the French Revolution in general & Bonaparte in particular. I hope I shall never go to Newgate, but if I am destined to go there I pray it may be for such things as have lately appeared in the M. Post ag't Bonaparte. - apropos - a Gent. at Attorneys Generals table said there had been much true old English Spirit in the M. Post of late and he admired it greatly. - These are almost your own words. I am happy to think that Bonapartes conduct is likely to preserve and enlarge the Liberties of this Country as the French Revolution endangered them, and that all classes will unite against France but your Philosophers who dream of talent giving rank instead of title & property - Bonaparte has captivated them. - your men of Science - Oh! Oh! I have engaged at them & wish to give them a severe dressing. - You'll recollect I had all my ideas on this subject from you in Hyde Park. - It has never since quitted my mind. - Cobbet's Letter which I send is the most atrocious string of falsehoods; the most impudent thing ever I saw. - I shall say something about it in the Post - Pray write Letters to Fox - and pray abuse those Coxcombs who pay adoration going to Bonaparte - Erskine, Mackintosh &c."
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