BIB_ID
415822
Accession number
MA 1853.4
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1824 January 26.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (6 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.5 and 15.6 x 9.7 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. / Duke Street / Westminster."
Coleridge dates the letter "Grove, Highgate / Monday." The postmark is Highgate, January 26, 1824.
The letter includes two small notebook pages of text which were sent with the letter. Coleridge indicates on the manuscript where his notes are to be inserted. Coleridge ends his notes with a small essay on William Occam.
Coleridge writes a note at the top of the first page, referring to the letter he enclosed for Mr. Gillman, "The Address is on a Slip half in the Letter."
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. / Duke Street / Westminster."
Coleridge dates the letter "Grove, Highgate / Monday." The postmark is Highgate, January 26, 1824.
The letter includes two small notebook pages of text which were sent with the letter. Coleridge indicates on the manuscript where his notes are to be inserted. Coleridge ends his notes with a small essay on William Occam.
Coleridge writes a note at the top of the first page, referring to the letter he enclosed for Mr. Gillman, "The Address is on a Slip half in the Letter."
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
Relating his thoughts on Swedenborg's writings; saying "The appendix to the White Horse painfully renewed the strong and ever baffled Yearning that has so long possessed and so often taken possession of my mind, to write to you a part at least of the many thoughts that crowd on me in the perusal of Swedenborg's Writings;" offering, at length and in detail, his ideas on a doctrine of symbols and on Letters and Cyphers; saying "I infer, therefore, that the Disciples of Emanuel Swedenborg should join in constructing or causing to be constructed an Accidence, and a Grammar (i.e., the Syntax and the Prosody) of Correspondences - with a Vocabulary, as a Ground work and a plat-form of a future (not Lexicon but) Logicon;" suggesting, in a postscript, a list of writers Turk should consult to further his understanding of "Mr. Hartley's scheme", enclosing a letter for Mr. Gillman and commenting on Mrs. Gillman's accident that fractured her wrist and hand and asking to be remembered to Mrs. Tulk; adding "I am under great affliction of mind from the diseased state of mind in relation to his moral & religious System of Thinking (N.b. - not of Action, thank God!) in which I find my second Son - O what a Place of Poisons that University of Cambridge is - Atheism is quite the Ton among the Mathematical Geniuses, Root and Brand Infidelity! - And 'the arrow flieth in Darkness'."
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