BIB_ID
402397
Accession number
MA 1581.39
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 24 x 19.2 cm
Notes
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 16.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Place of writing from postmarks and date of writing from published letter cited below.
Address panel with postmarks to "Sir G. Beaumont, Bart / Dunmow / Essex."
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
Place of writing from postmarks and date of writing from published letter cited below.
Address panel with postmarks to "Sir G. Beaumont, Bart / Dunmow / Essex."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Thanking him for his kind letter; discussing the Idea of Virtue, saying "...even so necessary is it for all men, the bad as well as the Good, that the Idea of Virtue should exist, and a Faith in it's Reality. Else we sacrifice the End to the Means;" discussing the "...union of Reason, Understanding, and Sense (i.e. the Senses);" adding "In my Essay these Thoughts will be developed popularly. This is my definition of a just popular Style : when the Author has had his own eye fixed steadily on the abstract, yet permits his Readers to see only the Concrete;" stating that it is a degradation of the New Testament to consider Christianity a "... mere Code of Ethics;" discussing, at length, redemption, fear, selfishness, virtue, love and obedience in Christianity; concluding "This is a very dull Letter; but even it's prolixity tho' it may tire you, yet will not be unpleasing, as an evidence of the Value, I set on your Esteem;" adding, in a postscript, that Mrs. Wordsworth will write to Lady Beaumont in a few days.
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