BIB_ID
415937
Accession number
MA 1856.10
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1820 January 14.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.1 cm
Notes
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 / Surgeon / Lincoln's Inn Fields."
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 / 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
Mentioning that Charles and Mary Lamb will be paying him a new year's visit on Sunday and therefore he must "defer our philosophical Intercommune till the Sunday after," but inviting Green to come and spend the day with them while the Lambs are there; saying that he would also like to arrange to see the actress Miss Wensley at Covent Garden Theatre and adding that her father, a merchant who he had met in Bristol, has called on him; describing Mr. Wensley and saying that James Gillman "will give you a slight sketch of him"; telling Green that they have dined with Charles Mathews and seen his one-man performance "At Home"; listing the people who were there, including Edward Du Bois and Thomas Hill; saying that he remembers seeing Thomas Hill twenty-five years earlier, "with exactly the same look, Person & Manners as now [...] He is a seemingly always good-natured fellow who knows nothing & about every thing, no person & about & all about every body -- a compleat Parasite in the old sense of a Dinner-hunter at the tables of all who are or who entertain public men, Authors, Players, Fiddlers, Booksellers &c -- for more than 30 years, indeed, he has hung at the Tail of Contemporary or Living Literature like a cylinder of Album Greek half extruded from a costive Dog -- It was a pleasant evening, however"; reminding him about a drawing from an alchemy book; sending Anne Gillman's love to Anne Green and passing on a message about husbands and doctors: "we hope, that the twin Obstacles, Ague & the Boreal Weather, to our seeing her here will vanish at the same time"; adding a few lines about nausea and its efficacy as a cure for other ailments.
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