BIB_ID
415954
Accession number
MA 1856.16
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1824 May 19.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Coleridge lists, for the place of writing, the following: "Ædes Nemorosæ, apud / Port' Altam." Highgate also appears on 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 seal and postmarks: "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 with seal and postmarks: "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
Writing in a mock-serious manner and in the third person of how glad he is to "oblige Lincoln's Inn Fields" (probably standing in metonymically for the Green family): "When he reflects indeed on their many and cogent claims on his admiration and gratitude, what a Fund of Literature they contain, what a Royal Society, what royal Associates -- not to speak of those as yet in the egg of Futurity, the unhatched Decemvirate and Spes altera Phœbi!"; going on in this vein and adding "when he remembers the memorable fact, that if the Titanic Roc should take up the Great Pyramid in his Beak, and drop the same with due skill, the L.I.F. [for Lincoln's Inn Fields] would fit as Cup to Ball, Bone to Bone -- tho' if S.T.C. might dare advise so great and rare a Bird, the precious Transport should be let fall point downwards, and thus prevent the adulteration of their intellectual Splendors with 'the Light of common Day', while a Duplicate of the Elysium below might be reared on it's ample base, in mid air -- (ah! if a Duplicate of No. 22 could be found!) -- when S.T.C. ponders these proud merits, what is there he would not do to 'oblige Lincoln's Inn Fields'?"; signing off "S.T. Coleridge who with his friends Mr and Mrs G. will &c. on June 3rd.--"
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