BIB_ID
415919
Accession number
MA 1856.5
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 April 30.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 25.5 x 20.6 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives only "Thursday Noon" for the date of writing. In the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs argues that this letter was written two days before his next letter to Green (dated May 2, 1818 and cataloged as MA 1856.6). 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: "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: "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
Telling Green that he is "writing as hard as I can put pen to Paper, at the Spring Garden Coffee House in defence of the Bill for regulating the labor of the Children in Cotton Factories" and will not finish in time to return to Highgate that night; adding "This I will not affront you or myself by calling an apology. For it must be done now or not at all"; saying that he hopes to see him on Sunday, "and that you will dine with us -- & spend the evening with me alone"; sending his respects to Anne Green.
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