BIB_ID
415873
Accession number
MA 1854.11
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Calne, England, 1815.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
3 items (6 pages) ; 18.7 x 11.9 and 13.3 x 8.5 cm
Notes
Dr. Brabant was an English physician in Devizes who also had an interest in German Higher Criticism. Coleridge was a patient of Dr. Brabant during the years he lived in Calne.
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
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.
With 4 pages of notes that, according to an essay in the Westminster Review in April 1870, were included in a letter (MA 1854.1) which is dated by Griggs in the publication cited below to March 10, 1815. Griggs referred to the notes appended to the letter of March 10, 1815 as still in the possession of Lord Latymer at the time of publication.
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
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.
With 4 pages of notes that, according to an essay in the Westminster Review in April 1870, were included in a letter (MA 1854.1) which is dated by Griggs in the publication cited below to March 10, 1815. Griggs referred to the notes appended to the letter of March 10, 1815 as still in the possession of Lord Latymer at the time of publication.
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
Being a 2 page fragment of a letter which, according to an essay in the Westminster Review of April 1870, cited below, were preceded by 2 pages of notes with a notation in the top left corner, p. 41 and included in a letter dated March 10, 1815 (see MA 1854.1); including a 2-page set of notes, with a notation in the top left corner, "Introd. p. 11." which also appear to have been included in the letter to Brabant dated March 10, 1815.
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