BIB_ID
415447
Accession number
MA 1851.15
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1830 November 29.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.8 x 18.6 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.
Copy in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge.
The work referred to in this letter is "On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the idea of each : with aids toward a right judgment on the late Catholic Bill." London: Hurst, Chance & Co., 1830.
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.
Copy in the hand of Ernest Hartley Coleridge.
The work referred to in this letter is "On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the idea of each : with aids toward a right judgment on the late Catholic Bill." London: Hurst, Chance & Co., 1830.
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
Asking if he would reread his work on the Constitution; saying "I am so unwell as not without plausible grounds to suspect that your remarks may come too late for me to make any practical use of them; yet...it would be so great a help to my chances of being useful to receive from a Man, like you, some data on which I might commence a sincere attempt to ascertain the causes of the Obscurity felt generally in my prose writings - whether in the way of expressing my thoughts, or in the injudicious selection of the Thoughts themselves - that I must press on you your kind promise to run your eye once more through my Work on the Constitution...I cannot sincerely & conscientiously attribute the whole of my failure to attract the attention of my fellow-men to faults or defects of my own - You will believe me when I say, that to win their attention for their own most momentous interests is the Wish that so entirely predominates over any literary Ambition, as to render the existence of he latter latent in my own consciousness."
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