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Collection of letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London, to Joseph Henry Green, 1817-1834 : autograph manuscripts signed.

BIB_ID
211796
Accession number
MA 1856.1-50
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1817-1834.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
50 items (130 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
This collection of letters between Coleridge and Green is part of the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The Langlais Collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged as MA 1848-1857.
The letters were originally accompanied by short summaries in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge. These summaries have been removed and are housed in the Collection File.
The autograph manuscripts in this collection are: "Substance of my Address to the Pres. &c of the Royal Society of Literature on my election and introduction, as a Royal Associate" and "The Token."
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
Being a collection of 48 autograph letters signed, to Joseph Henry Green, written between 1817 and 1834, from Highgate, London, and 2 autograph manuscripts. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.