BIB_ID
415812
Accession number
MA 1853.3
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1822 August 14.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.4 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 "C. A. Tulk, Esq're. M.P. / Duke Street / Westminster."
Coleridge dates the letter "Thursday Afternoon / Highgate." The postmark is August 14, 1823.
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 "C. A. Tulk, Esq're. M.P. / Duke Street / Westminster."
Coleridge dates the letter "Thursday Afternoon / Highgate." The postmark is August 14, 1823.
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
Discussing his negotiations with Murray for a publishing agreement and Tulk's mediation with Murray on his behalf; expressing his concern for "...submitting my compositions, the offspring of intense thought, to the Judgement or perhaps the after-dinner mood of Men whom I know to be my inferiors in Learning, comparative strangers to the philosophic and genial principles of Criticism, & whose own Articles do not impress me with any respect for Critical Dogmas grounded on no principles, and resting wholly on individual tastes and Accidents of association;" saying he is ready to give Murray two volumes to publish; adding "If Mr. Murray will take them as I send them, I shall be happy to make any arrangement, that shall be considered as equitable. - This is, however, in my mind, on which different as I know it to be from Mr. Murray's, I must, and ought to, act - and the more so, as in him his counter-judgement rests wholly on a pre-conception, which he has not given me even a chance of rectifying if erroneous, or of converting into a well-founded Conviction if otherwise;" outlining three prerequisites to an agreement which includes that Murray will be his publisher for all future works "...whether at my own risk or otherwise depending (of course) on the character of the Works and his own Anticipations of their saleableness - and with the proviso, that nothing is offered by me to which he can object on political or moral grounds? It is of the most urgent importance that I should know his decision, without delay; but yet I should scarcely have held myself justified in throwing the mediatory task on you, my dear Sir!;" expressing his concern for Mrs. Tulk's health and quoting lines 21-24 from "On Revisiting the Sea-shore."
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