BIB_ID
415934
Accession number
MA 1856.9
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1819 January 16.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the date of writing as "Saturday Afternoon." The letter is postmarked "January 16, 1819," which fell on a Saturday. 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
Asking if Green would leave out for him a copy of Goethe's Zur Farbenlehre, since he wants to consult a passage in which Goethe compares Plato to Aristotle "in a spirited manner"; telling him that the books will all be at his service again after the lecture; saying he is resolved to put his books in order on Tuesday, but at the very least he will pull out all of Green's books and return them to him, with the possible exception of Wackenroder's Phantasien über die Kunst, edited by Tieck; writing of how pleased he is with Francis Chantrey: "the little of his conversation, which I enjoyed, was ex pede Herculem, left me no doubt of the power his insight. Light, Manlihood, Simplicity, Wholeness -- these are the entelechie of Phidian Genius -- and who but must see these in Chantry's solar face, and in all his manners"; saying that he is bewitched by a portait Chantrey made of Anne Green; recalling the painter Thomas Phillips describing Anne Green as "a sweet Subject"; reacting to Phillips's portrait of himself: "In it's present state, the eyes appear too large, too globose -- and their color must be made lighter -- and I thought, that the face exclusive of the forehead was stronger, more energetic than mine seems to me when I catch it in the Glass, and therefore the Forehead and Brow less so -- not in themselves, but in consequence of the proportion. But of course I can form no notion of what my face and look may be when I am animated in friendly conversation"; sending his "kind and respectful remembrances" to Green's mother.
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