BIB_ID
415902
Accession number
MA 1856.2
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1817 December 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.3 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives "Wednesday Evening" for the date of writing. The letter is postmarked "December 10, 1817," which fell on a Wednesday. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
This collection, MA 1856, is comprised of 48 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green and 2 autograph manuscripts, written between 1817 and 1834. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1856.1-50).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel with postmarks: "H. Green, Esqre / Surgeon / Lincoln's Inn Fields."
This collection, MA 1856, is comprised of 48 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green and 2 autograph manuscripts, written between 1817 and 1834. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1856.1-50).
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 as MA 1848-1857.
Address panel with postmarks: "H. Green, Esqre / Surgeon / Lincoln's Inn Fields."
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
Telling Green that he is giving a lecture the following night at the "London Psilosophical Society" on the principles of experimental philosophy; inviting Green and his wife: "As I have taken some pains to arrange my Thoughts, I would fain be able to promise myself at least one congenial, one intelligent Auditor -- if therefore all things suit, namely, the Tetractys of your Time, Mrs G's Time, Your & her Inclination, and the Weather, by mentioning my name, as Mr Coleridge's Friends, the doors will be open to you. Mrs Green will find several Ladies there -- should she have the least curiosity to hear me pulpitizing; and for her sake I will try to be as little dull as the Subject and my Mood will permit"; asking in a postscript if Green could copy a paragraph containing Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger's definition of the ideal and bring it with him to the lecture; saying that if, for official reasons, Green should feel that the London Philosophical Society is not the place to be seen, he should feel no obligation to come; adding that he could also meet the Greens at Thomas Pettigrew's ("Pampragmatist of this rival of the Royal Society") just before the lecture.
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