BIB_ID
415384
Accession number
MA 1851.9
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1821 January 8.
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 and fragments of a seal to "Rev'd Mr. Cary / Chiswick."
Place and date of writing from postmark.
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 and fragments of a seal to "Rev'd Mr. Cary / Chiswick."
Place and date of writing from postmark.
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
Concerning a parcel of books and a letter that he fears may have arrived to late to be sent with the Cary's son William and asking to let him know if they arrived; reporting on the health of the Gillmans; asking if he has "...Lamb's Essays under the name of Elia? I have seen two that were extracted from Baldwin's Magazine, by the Times the one, & the other by the Morning Chronicle, which I think you would like very much. The last, that on the old Year, I have some thought of answering; but alas! I have so many things to do, and such very pressing reasons for doing them, that I can do nothing! I am, however, getting regularly on with my Logic - in 3 parts;" describing the scholarly organization of the work and his schedule for working on it "...with Mr. Green, my Fellow-student & Amanuensis, to my (Anti-Paleyo-grotian) Assertion of Religion as necessarily implying Revelation and of Xtianity as the only Revelation of universal validity. - Of the latter some thing more than a Volume is written;" sending love on behalf of Mrs. Gillman to him and Mrs. Cary; adding "Believe me, I long to see you. And if I can but make a little way, if I can but push and pole myself off the shelvy Shores & sucking Sand-banks into smoothish Water, I will not be long in turning the helm and setting my sail for Chiswick;" adding, in a lengthy postscript, a description of work he is doing on the first part of Genesis, specifically on the "...supposed Post-creation of the Woman, and to the immediate descendants of the Man (for it seems beyond all doubt, that neither Adam or Eve are proper Names in the original). I flatter myself too, that I have satisfactorily decyphered the import of Eden & the four River-heads into which the River that flowed out of Eden disparted itself. The more I study the Genesis of Moses, the more [pro]found does my admiration of it become!;" continuing to elaborate on his thesis.
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