BIB_ID
415925
Accession number
MA 1856.6
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1818 May 2.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the place of writing as "Spring Garden Coffee House" and the date of writing as "Saturday Night, 2 May, 1818." See the previous letter, cataloged as MA 1856.5, for context.
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 intact seal: "Mr Green / 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 intact seal: "Mr Green / 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
Saying that since he has been detained at the Spring Garden Coffee House until the present moment and is "under requisition for Monday Morning," he has decided not to return to Highgate in the interim; proposing that he therefore come to Lincoln's Inn Fields and spend "the fore-dinner hours" with Green; informing him that the bill placing regulations on children's labor in cotton factories has passed the House of Commons and would have passed the House of Lords without discussion, except "that Scotch Coxcomb, the plebian Earl of Lauderdale" (probably James Maitland) seized the opportunity to "displa[y] his muddy three inch depth in the Gutter (Qy. Guttur?) of his Political Economy"; writing scathingly on the earl's attempt to raise questions about "[w]hether some half score of rich Capitalists are to be prevented from suborning Suicide and perpetrating Infanticide and Soul-murder"; concluding "In short, he wants to make a speech almost as much as I do to have a release signed by Conscience from the duty of making or anticipating answers to such speeches"; including two lines of verse; commenting "Verily, the World is mighty: and for all but the Few the orb of Truth labors under eclipse from the Shadow of the World!"; sending his respects to Anne Green.
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