BIB_ID
415370
Accession number
MA 1851.5
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 February 2.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.3 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 "Rev'd H. F. Cary / Little Hampton / Arundel / Sussex."
Coleridge simply dates the letter "Monday Afternoon." The postmark is February 2, 1818 which was a Monday. Place of writing inferred from contents.
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 "Rev'd H. F. Cary / Little Hampton / Arundel / Sussex."
Coleridge simply dates the letter "Monday Afternoon." The postmark is February 2, 1818 which was a Monday. Place of writing inferred from contents.
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
Concerning Taylor and Hessey being the publishers of Cary's translation of Dante; saying he has received a letter from Taylor & Hessey "...expressing their wish to be the publishers of such a work, and their desire in any manner to be serviceable to the Author...It would be particularly pleasant to me : because I am vain enough to set a more than usual value on the Critique, I have devoted to the names of Dante, Donne, and Milton (the middle name will, perhaps , puzzle you) and I mean to publish it singly, in the week following it's delivery. - However, this is merely one side of the Question - and you know, how incapable I am of intentionally pressing any thing in which you may feel the least delicacy - only what is uppermost with me ever comes foremost. I will try to follow your advice - and if I can do it honestly, while my name is made use of, and has been industriously, to pass off an imposition, I will. I have made the offer - Let me have the MSS with permission to publish it in the Friend, simply saying - that the writer of the Introduction to the Encycl. had availed himself of several passages - and I remain neutral - I suspect, that I shall have them accede;" sending his regards to Mrs. Cary along with those of Mr. and Mrs. Gillman. .
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