BIB_ID
415382
Accession number
MA 1851.8
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1820 December 31.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.5 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 and fragments of a seal to "The / Reverend H. F. Carey / Chiswick / near / London."
Docketed.
Written on Sunday Evening.
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 and fragments of a seal to "The / Reverend H. F. Carey / Chiswick / near / London."
Docketed.
Written on Sunday Evening.
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 items Mrs. Cary asked him to deliver for their son William and explaining, in detail, what has prevented him from doing so; adding that he has not been well; saying "I have been very unwell - unusually in kind as well as degree - my Son's ill-usage, like all other calamities, affecting my body when I had supposed myself & mentally actually was, resigned and tranquil;" reporting on the health and academic progress of James & Henry Gillman; adding, in a postscript, that he is sending him "...a very sensible and well-written Work of Mr. Hurwitz's in defence of our established Version. Hurwitz is a strictly orthodox Messianic Jew whose learning & sound judgement would qualify him to be the Luther of Judaism, in recalling his Brethren from the Swamps of Talmudism to the terra firma of the Holy Writ - Being asked, what his persuasion is, I replied - that he preferred the Hexameter alone to the Elegiac of Faith - But O! how far nearer is an orthodox Jew to an orthodox Protestant Christian, then the Socinian is.-" .
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