BIB_ID
415369
Accession number
MA 1851.4
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 January 30.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.2 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1851, is comprised of 12 autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Henry Francis Cary, written from October 1817 through September 1829 and 4 copies of autograph letters from Coleridge to H.F. Cary, in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge, and dated May 25 or 26, 1827, June 2, 1827, November 29, 1830 and April 22,1832.
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 "Revd. H. F. Cary / Little-hampton / near Arundel / Sussex."
Docketed.
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 "Revd. H. F. Cary / Little-hampton / near Arundel / Sussex."
Docketed.
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
Recommending Taylor & Hessey to him as a publisher for his translation; saying "...it is a respectable connexion, and I am the more eager about it, because I think it probable that in a manner comfortable certainly to you, and with a fair chance of being advantageous without risk, you may be induced to give hereafter a new Edition with copious notes : as we talked of;" asking for an answer as soon as possible so that copies of his translation might be available in time for Coleridge's lecture on Donne, Dante & Milton to be given on February 27th; asking several questions related to the specifics of publication; adding "For I need not tell you, that it would be an injustice to the better part of the World to let the work remain in it's present incognito, by any indifference of your own. If at the same time you could inform me, where I could get the unsold Copies with an authority from you for claiming them, it might spare time and trouble. To add to my perplexities, I by exposure to cold and damp in tramping about to solicit subscriptions, puffs (!!O God!!) and other arrangements for the lectures I got such a hoarseness (now only a little better ) that I was obliged to deliver the first lecture with a voice that sounded throughout to my own ears, as a Batrachomyomachia or battle between the Croaks & Squeaks - under [...] agitation of Spirits, you may suppose;" adding that either he or Mr. Gillman will call on his son; sending regards from Mrs. Gillman to Mrs. Cary.
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