BIB_ID
415375
Accession number
MA 1851.7
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 February 9.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 25.9 x 20.4 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. Carey / Little Hampton / Arundel / Sussex."
Docketed.
Written on "Monday."
Written on the blank page (4) of the printed "Prospectus / of / A Course of Lectures / by S.T. Coleridge" with a postscript on the top of the front page and annotations concerning his performance written at the end of the printed descriptions of Lectures I, II, III and IV. He would deliver Lecture V the following evening. After Lecture I Coleridge comments, "Tho' I was dreadfully hoarse, it went off famously"; after Lecture II, "Not so hoarse ; but I failed by attempting too much"; after Lecture III, "This was very popular"; and after Lecture IV, "Went off well - but the general opinion was, that it was more instructive than, but not so splendid as the 3rd."
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. Carey / Little Hampton / Arundel / Sussex."
Docketed.
Written on "Monday."
Written on the blank page (4) of the printed "Prospectus / of / A Course of Lectures / by S.T. Coleridge" with a postscript on the top of the front page and annotations concerning his performance written at the end of the printed descriptions of Lectures I, II, III and IV. He would deliver Lecture V the following evening. After Lecture I Coleridge comments, "Tho' I was dreadfully hoarse, it went off famously"; after Lecture II, "Not so hoarse ; but I failed by attempting too much"; after Lecture III, "This was very popular"; and after Lecture IV, "Went off well - but the general opinion was, that it was more instructive than, but not so splendid as the 3rd."
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
Responding to what appears to be a concern expressed by Cary regarding the publication of his translation; saying "Indeed, my dear Sir, whom long since as far as my own heart is concerned I have called 'Friend' in 'a sense of which the Worldling nothing knows' - you are safe with me. Not for the world [would] I have your name concerned directly or indirectly with aught that was a hair's breadth off single-heartedness...It was a mere x y z that floated before me, that it might possibly be your wish to make some alteration tho' I did not see what - The only change necessary, by the custom of the Trade, is the substitution of Taylor & Hessey's Names - : and to them must be left the outside changes, if any, in the Covers &c. The whole shall be done immediately : and the new Title-page, or one of the Copies with the new title-page with my Introductory Lectures, or Portrait of the (so called) Dark Ages;" adding, in a postscript, that he will make a point of seeing Cary's son at the next Lecture and will try to arrange to see him as often as his school rules allow.
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