BIB_ID
415946
Accession number
MA 1856.13
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1824 February 16.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the date of writing as "Monday Afternoon / 15 Feby. 1824." However, Monday of that week fell on the 16th, and the letter is also postmarked "February 16, 1824." 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 / 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
Concerning Basil Montagu's efforts to procure an associateship at the Royal Society of Literature for Coleridge; saying that he has just received a letter from Mrs. Montagu listing the electors he needs to write to in order to get the associateship; adding that he responded by saying that what a man's friends did for him was one thing, but what he did on his behalf was another and he "would not, could not, solicit a single vote. I should think it an affrontive interference with a decision, in which there ought to be neither ground or motive, but the Elector's own judgement & conscience -- and all for what?"; saying that he does not wish to complicate matters for Montagu by withdrawing his name and will let the matter take its course, "but as Montagu wishes to have Mr [Francis] Chantrey's Vote for us, if you see and feel no objection (an Objectiuncula will be quite sufficient) you will perhaps write him a Line to state the circumstance"; noting the name of one of the electors, Richard Cattermole, and wondering "what twi-bestialism that Fellow committed in his pre-existent state to bring down such a name upon him"; adding that he looks forward to Sunday and sending his respects to Green's wife and mother.
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