BIB_ID
415373
Accession number
MA 1851.6
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 February 16.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.4 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 "The / Rev'd H. F. Cary / Little Hampton / 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 "The / Rev'd H. F. Cary / Little Hampton / 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
Discussing the reputation of Taylor and Hessey as publishers and the specifics of a potential agreement with them for the publication of his translation; saying of Taylor & Hessey, "Now these, Sir! are men that give respect as well as receive it. I have not myself been connected with them, in any literary engagement; but I know, that they are men of character, and worthy of confidence...This is the sort of connection, that will be of service to your reputation. Besides, they are very honest and honorable men;" discussing specifics of a possible agreement with respect to copyright issues, suggesting the need to print a new title page and discussing the expense involved; assuring him that he will be in very good hands with Taylor & Hessey; adding "My Lectures are very respectably and very respectfully attended : and tho' not as yet very numerously, yet sufficiently so as to make them answer pecuniarily. This evening I comment on Shakespear;" adding, in a postscript, "I have this morning been reading a strange publication - viz. Poems with very wild and interesting pictures, as the swathing, etched (I suppose) but it is said - printed and painted by the Author, W. Blake. He is a man of Genius - and I apprehend, a Swedenborgian - certainly, a mystic emphatically. You perhaps smile at my calling another Poet, a Mystic ; but verily I am in the very mire of common-place common-sense compared with Mr. Blake, apo- or rather ana-calyptic Poet, and Painter!"
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