BIB_ID
211730
Accession number
MA 1855.10
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 December 8.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 18.5 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1855, is comprised of thirteen autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients, written from August 5, 1794 through March 1, 1832. The recipients include Derwent and Hartley Coleridge, William Hart Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Thomas Poole and Dorothy Wordsworth.
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 "Rev'd W. H. Coleridge / Hatton Garden."
Date of writing from docket. Coleridge dates the letter "Highgate / Tuesday Noon."
Docketed "Uncle Sam - Decr. 8th. 1818."
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 "Rev'd W. H. Coleridge / Hatton Garden."
Date of writing from docket. Coleridge dates the letter "Highgate / Tuesday Noon."
Docketed "Uncle Sam - Decr. 8th. 1818."
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
Enclosing two sets of tickets for his lectures and "...a small Batch of my Prospectuses" and asking if he would help promote the course; saying "...I am confident [it] would remove the unfavorable Impression, which the words [H]istory of Philosophy, are but too well calculated to make in the present state of the Public Mind - as if the Lectures must needs be heavy &c, instead of being, as they really are, the most entertaining Course of any, I have yet given. But my friends are few, and those for the greater part removed from Town;" defending his beliefs against the "suspicion of any leaning towards Pantheism, in any of its forms;" suggesting he introduce himself to "Mr. Hugh Rose, of Uckfield, Sussex" if their paths should cross and adding that Mr. Rose is coming to London to be ordained by the Bishop of London; asking, in a postscript, if he would deliver the tickets and letter he has enclosed and addressed to the Editor of the Literary Gazette.
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