BIB_ID
415310
Accession number
MA 1850.1
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1816 November 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 26.4 x 20.8 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1850, is comprised of five autograph letters signed and one autograph letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to James Gillman, written from November 10, 1816 through January 10, 1832.
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 with postmarks to "Mr. Gillman / Highgate."
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 with postmarks to "Mr. Gillman / Highgate."
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
Explaining, at length and in detail, ideas he appears to be developing, possibly to be included in his Biographia Literaria which was published in 1817; discussing concepts of reality, consciousness, existence, ideas, being and becoming; concluding "Leaving therefore all of more universal consideration for a future Time, I propose to begin at once with Life ; but with Life in it's very first manifestations - demonstrating that there is no other possible definition of Life but Individuality - that this, again is impossible without the assumption of a universal Life, YOU will see ; but there is no necessity of mentioning. But in the fluxions or nascent forms of Individuality it will be absolutely necessary to shew the analogy between organic growth, and self-repetition, and a more universal form whether it be called magnetism or Polarity - All the previous steps I shall have for your own Overlooking. As far as I understand your scheme, I approve of it. Be assured, however, that it shall be an indisposition of no ordinary kind that shall be allowed to disqualify me from devoting you every evening, that you can yourself commend, and such portions of every evening, after Tea from Sunday next inclusive - Friday & Saturday Evenings will be profitably consumed in preliminary explanations."
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