BIB_ID
415959
Accession number
MA 1856.19
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1825 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Place and date of writing 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 / 46. / 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 / 46. / 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 Anne Green has told Anne Gillman about a shop where a "superior sort of White Mustard Seed may be procured"; asking if Green could have his servant purchase a bottle of it and bring it on Sunday, as both Coleridge and Mrs. Green are eager to try it; mentioning that James Gillman has used Sulfate of Quina in doses recently and asking about Quina Wine; asking for a copy of some lines about "constancy to the Idea of a beloved Object -- ending, I remember, with a Simile of a Woodman following his own projected Shadow" and saying that he would like to include them in Aids to Reflection; giving the text of a sentence to be inserted on page 223, consisting of a statement on reality and perception; writing that "our Hamlet, and specially our quiet Grove is crowded with Carriages, Coachmen and other such Cattle, from Mrs Cootes's Visitors."
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