BIB_ID
402404
Accession number
MA 1581.45
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
England, 1826 March 18.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22. x 18.4 cm
Notes
All but three lines at the top of page 3 has been cut away which also included the address panel on the verso.
Coleridge has dated this letter "Saturday 18 April 1826" but the published letter cited below explains that "Coleridge may inadvertently have written 'April' for 'March', since both Saturday the 18th, which he mentions in the date, and Friday the 24th, to which he refers in this his letter, are correct for March rather than April 1826."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 23.
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).
Coleridge has dated this letter "Saturday 18 April 1826" but the published letter cited below explains that "Coleridge may inadvertently have written 'April' for 'March', since both Saturday the 18th, which he mentions in the date, and Friday the 24th, to which he refers in this his letter, are correct for March rather than April 1826."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Coleridge) 23.
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).
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Commenting on his ill health which continues despite the beauty of spring; referring to "Prince Hohenlohe's Advertisement of the Day & Hour on which he proposed to commence his thaumaturgic Operations never evinced a more rousing power or acted as a strong soliciting spell on his ultra-catholic Patients, than the imagination of a long Evening past in your society with both Sir George Beaumont & Mr. J.H. Frere exerts on my Will & Wish;" saying that when he thinks of Sir George and Mr. Frere, he can't help but reminisce about Cole-orton and Grosvenor Square;" saying that nothing will stop him from accepting her invitation for Friday the 24th; saying he will reply to the clergyman at Coleorton by Monday's post; discussing a passage he read in Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living" on Infant Baptism; discussing his and Charles Lamb's views on George Herbert's Sacred Poems; saying Lamb "...prefers Quarles - nay he dislikes Herbert;" commenting on the poems saying "The stanzas are especially affecting to me, because the folly of over-valuing myself in any reference to my future lot is not the sin or danger that besets me - but a tendency to self-contempt, a sense of the utter disproportionateness of all, I can call me, to the promises of the Gospel - this is my sorest temptation. The promises, I say : not to the Threats;" starting to quote "the following Dialogue between the Soul & it's Redeemer - (The Church - p. 107); the remainder of the letter has been cut away.
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