BIB_ID
415473
Accession number
MA 1851.16
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1832 April 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.7 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.
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.
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
Apologizing for his comments to him on the Reform Bill; saying "For I am sure by my love for you that you love me too well to have suffered my very rude and uncourteous vehemence of contradiction & reclamation respecting your advocacy of the Catalinarian Reform Bill, when we were last together, to have cooled, much less alienated, your kindness : even tho' the Interim had not been a weary weary time of groaning & life-loathing for me. But I hope, that this fearful night-storm is subsiding - as you will have heard from Mr. Green or dear Charles Lamb. I write now to say, that if God who in his fatherly compassion, and thro' the Love wherewith he hath beheld and loved me in Christ, in whom alone he can love the World, hath worked almost a miracle of grace in & for me by a sudden emancipation from a 33 years' fearful Slavery - if God's goodness should continue & so far perfect my convalescence, as that I should be capable of resuming my literary labors;" asking for information on John Asgill, "...a prime Darling of mine - the most honest of all Whigs, whom at the close of Queen Anne's Reign the scoundrelly Jacobite Tories twice expelled from Parliament under the pretext of his incomparable, or only with Rabelais to be compared, Argument against the base & cowardly Custom of ever dying?;" saying he is thinking of working on a reprint of "John Asgill's Tracts, with a Life & Copious Notes - to which I would affix Postilla & Marginalia - i.e., my MSS Notes, blank leaf & marginal, on Southey's Life of Wesley;" expressing his "unalterable as ever unaltered love & regard & in all (but as to the accursed Reform Hill, that mendacium ingens on it's own Preamble - to which no human Being can be more friendly than I am - that huge tape-worm Lie of some 3 score & ten yards) entire sympathy of heart & soul your affectionate / S.T. Coleridge."
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