BIB_ID
415950
Accession number
MA 1856.15
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1824 April 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.6 cm
Notes
No place of writing is given, but the letter was clearly written in Highgate at the Gillmans' home. Coleridge dates it "Saturday Noon / 10 April 1824," meaning that it was written just a few hours after the previous letter, cataloged as MA 1856.14.
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: "J.H. Green, Esqre / 22. 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: "J.H. Green, Esqre / 22. 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 James Gillman's fever has gone down, and though his arm is still very inflamed and painful, he looks forward to Green's visit tomorrow; including a long passage in Latin and Greek; saying that he feels a work of Green's will "inaugurate you at once as the IATROS PHILOSOP[H]OS of the Age -- & all your labors, & acquisitions, & habits of thinking hitherto, fit you for this work"; asking if Green has any later works by Treviranus and saying that he would like to see them, if so; commenting that Treviranus is a "striking instance of a mind rendered staggering and dizzy by agglomeration of Facts --. His Judgement is in a state of congestion"; adding in a postscript that he hopes Green will come as early as possible tomorrow.
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