BIB_ID
415811
Accession number
MA 1853.2
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1821 September 21.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.2 cm
Notes
This collection, MA 1853, is comprised of seven autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to C.A., Tulk, written from February 12, 1821 through April 10, 1824.
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 seal to "Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq're. M.P. / St. John's Lodge / Regent's Park."
Written on "Friday Afternoon / Highgate."
Coleridge refers in this letter to an effort by the Governors of the Free Grammar School at Highgate to tear down the chapel and build a new one using funds from the Highgate Charity. The Governors were challenged in their efforts to use the endowments funds and a Bill before Parliament to allow them to use funds from the Charity for the new school would fail in 1822. The Report by Henry Brougham set out the nature of the endowment funds and how they were to be administered.
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 seal to "Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq're. M.P. / St. John's Lodge / Regent's Park."
Written on "Friday Afternoon / Highgate."
Coleridge refers in this letter to an effort by the Governors of the Free Grammar School at Highgate to tear down the chapel and build a new one using funds from the Highgate Charity. The Governors were challenged in their efforts to use the endowments funds and a Bill before Parliament to allow them to use funds from the Charity for the new school would fail in 1822. The Report by Henry Brougham set out the nature of the endowment funds and how they were to be administered.
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
Commenting, at length and in detail, on his ill health and the impact it has on his ability to schedule meetings; expressing his desire to collaborate with Tulk on a small work on Swedenborgianism "...as a Companion to the two Volumes of the Universal Theology, and consisting of a methodical series of Swedenborg's Positions, physiological and anthropological as well as theological; in one word, Swedenborg's system of Theanthropy, reduced to Theses as much as possible in his own words - with occasional Scholia, and reference to parallel positions in other philosophers, especially those who have written since Swedenborg;" saying that Mr. Gillman is wondering if he might borrow "...Mr. Brougham's second Report on the Charities - containing the funds under trust of the Governors of the Highgate Chapel. For owing to a self contradictory sort of Notice given out some weeks ago during the divine Service by the Governors, we are in danger of feuds in this Hamlet, which my worthy friend is anxious to do his utmost to prevent or at least to soften;" asking to be remembered to "Mrs. Tulk and your little ones."
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