BIB_ID
119954
Accession number
MA 1857.23
Creator
White, Joseph Blanco, 1775-1841.
Display Date
London, England, 1826 June 21.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.0 x 19.9 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.
Address panel to "S.T. Coleridge Esq're / Highgate."
Written from "7. Paradise Row, Chelsea."
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.
Address panel to "S.T. Coleridge Esq're / Highgate."
Written from "7. Paradise Row, Chelsea."
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
Regretting that his "...present circumstances give me very little hope of being able to pay you a visit before I remove to Oxford in the autumn . London is too expensive for me both in time & money : & I hope that by living in lodgings at Oxford, I shall be more comfortable in every respect. The command of the Bodleian is another object of importance to me; for though I want physical strength for research, it is my intention to employ myself, if possible, upon some work of less ephemeral a nature than those which I have hitherto published : & that cannot be done without constant reference to books which I cannot get with any degree of convenience in London. I had the pleasure, some time ago, of meeting your Eton nephew; a young man whose manners pleased me exceedingly. I anxiously enquired about you, for your long silence made me fear you were not well. I was therefore glad to hear that you were so fully employed in theological studies that you had no time to spare. The advantages I have derived from your "Aids to Reflection", are so clear to me that I promise to myself a similar effect from any thing that may come from your pen. If you were to see my copy of your "Aids", you would scarcely find ten pages together without pen or pencil marks, which prove that I have made use of those "Aids". It is my most sincere wish to devote the remainder of my life to Scriptural studies. but the necessity of writing controversially, & what is still worse, commercially (a branch which I have too much neglected, though I can ill afford the indulgence) must constantly disturb my plans."
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