BIB_ID
415943
Accession number
MA 1856.12
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1821 December 8.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the date of writing as "Saturday." The letter is postmarked "December 8, 1821," which fell on a Saturday. The place of writing has also been taken from the postmark.
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 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."
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
Postponing an engagement; mentioning that he has just read Kleist's first play "Die Familie Schroffenstein" and commenting "it seemed to me harsh and branny, and the freedom from sentimentality, for which our friend [Ludwig] Tieck gives him so much credit, too evidently a matter of purpose, and fore-thought"; criticizing various articles in the Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste; adding "The best are the mythological and palæological Articles -- and these are on too narrow an hypothesis. India -- India -- India -- the Writer can see nothing but India, from Arctic to Antarctic, from Chile to China"; sending his respects to Anne Green; adding in a postscript that he met Dr. Robert Gooch the other day and was "really affected by his pale looks"; saying that Gooch had read the Biographia Literaria, wanted to consult with him about studying Schelling and asked a question about the author of a letter in the Biographia.
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