BIB_ID
286622
Accession number
MA 642.1
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
[1826 Feb. 8].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (11 p., with address) : ill. (port.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Date of writing supplied by Earl Leslie Griggs.
In its current binding this letter is split into two sections. The first section (8 p.) is before MA 642.2; the second section (3 p. and address) is after MA 642.2.
Includes a faint sketch of S.T. Coleridge in pencil on the final page near the address. The sketch was drawn by J. H. Green on Feb. 5, 1826 and has been crossed out.
Part of a collection of 16 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his nephew, Edward Coleridge, a Master at Eton. Letters are described in 16 individual records (MA 642.1-16).
In its current binding this letter is split into two sections. The first section (8 p.) is before MA 642.2; the second section (3 p. and address) is after MA 642.2.
Includes a faint sketch of S.T. Coleridge in pencil on the final page near the address. The sketch was drawn by J. H. Green on Feb. 5, 1826 and has been crossed out.
Part of a collection of 16 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his nephew, Edward Coleridge, a Master at Eton. Letters are described in 16 individual records (MA 642.1-16).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from Agnew.
Summary
Describing how he has been "spiritually benefitted" by his recent poor health; mentioning Schleiermacher's sermons; commenting on the New Testament Gospels and the Apocalypse; discussing Henry Nelson Coleridge's Six months in the West Indies in 1825; noting that Luther's "Table-talk" [Dr. Martin Luther's divine discourses at his table, collected by Antonius Lauterbach] is "next to the Scriptures [his] main book of meditation"; criticizing the "wretched trash" Sir Walter Scott has been publishing; speaking contemtuously of Scott's financial failure and noting that he has "enough to feel for without wasting [his] Sympathy on a Scotchman suffering the penalty of his Scotchery"; discussing Derwent Coleridge. The letter also mentions Sir George Beaumont.
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