BIB_ID
415918
Accession number
MA 1856.4
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1817 December 23.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives "Tuesday afternoon" for the date of writing. The letter is postmarked "December 25, 1817," and the Tuesday of that week was the 23rd. 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: "J.H. Green, Esqre / 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: "J.H. Green, Esqre / 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
Referring to his previous letter (cataloged as MA 1856.3) and saying that he hopes it convinced Green that he was "no Zealot or Bigot for German Philosophy"; adding that he does think, of the last fifty years, "the very worst German Work of speculative philosophy or psychologic Observation better than the best that has been produced in London or Edingburgh"; saying that there has long been discussions of a "Plan for bringing together the Teutonics, Germans & English, in some sort of Club or Society: so as to have the German Periodical Papers &c, and at the same time to lay the foundation of a German Library in London"; laying out in detail his ideas about what the club would entail and offer (periodicals, books, a room open to subscribers, regular meetings and a yearly dinner, etc); adding "If the name 'German' should have any thing objectionable, it might easily be entitled, The Friends of Northern Literature, Swedish, Danish, and German"; asking for Green's opinion on the idea and sending his "best respects" to Anne Green.
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