BIB_ID
416100
Accession number
MA 1856.20
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1825 September.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.3 cm
Notes
No place or date of writing is given. Based on internal evidence, Griggs argues that the letter was probably written in late September 1825, most likely from the Gillmans' house in Highgate. 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 seal: "J.H. Green, Esqre / 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: "J.H. Green, Esqre / 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
Referring to some possible trouble in the "Abridgement Line: even should Part II. pass the ordeal of Prudence with unsinged Pinions, and not be impeached of soaring too high a pitch"; discussing Green's position as the recently appointed professor of anatomy to the Royal Academy: "there is nothing introduced that can be justly or plausibly supposed to interfere with the instructions or principles properly artistic of the professorial Artists, not only nothing technical but no attempt at any canons of special Criticism, no rules of appreciation or comparison between Picture & Picture, but merely an assertion of the dignity, worth & value of your own profession, and so far therefore a vindication of the Judgement of those who attached a Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy"; advising Green not to hold back: "it is better to be talked of, tho' against, for having done too much, than to escape all Talk by doing little [...] in real Life there is no such thing possible as a Medium [...] I would rather that you erred by boldness than by fear or caution"; alerting him that a package will be coming by the first post of next week, containing writing on a subject they had talked about: "I am still inclined to think, that on the subject of Expression something might be introduced from the Supervacanea, the passage I mean, respecting the Ideal & Individual without offence..."; mentioning that they have received "very chearful & encouraging Accounts from Mrs Randal of Henry and Eton" and describing the effect of a particular response to his "Nostalgic Eruption"; saying that in about a month he expects to have made some progress on "the Translation of the Novum Organus with Notes for B. Montague's Edition," but if he has not, alerting Green that he may need "three or four Pound, for the payment of some small Bills"; adding that he mentions this now so that it is off his mind and he is able to concentrate properly on his work; mentioning in a postscript that he would rather remain at home than go to Ramsgate.
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