Poems of Hartley Coleridge : autograph manuscripts.

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.
The manuscripts are undated, however, from Derwent Coleridge's memoir of his brother, it appears Hartley wrote his first poem in 1814 as he was setting off to Oxford. Hartley Coleridge died in 1849.
The sonnet published with the title "Solomon" is written on one side of an address panel of a letter to him at "The Nab", a cottage Hartley Coleridge moved into in 1833 and lived in until his death in 1849. Above and below the address panel are notes and mathematical calculations. One set of notes is on Arnold of Brescia, "...a pupil of Abelard whom he defended against a charge of Heresy before the Council of Sens" followed by a sentence on the "extent of land under wheat allocation in the United Kingdom" with mathematical calculations following that appear related to the statement on land allocated to wheat production. The second note which appears to be quoting from an article in The Athenæum, No. 882, September 21, 1844, p. 860 and saying "Cagots - a peculiar race inhabiting the Pyrenees - Supposed by Guyon - head Physician to the African Army - to be descended from the Gothic refugees in those mountains - Their ears round and without lobules. Many of them Cretins."