BIB_ID
416102
Accession number
MA 1856.21
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1827 May 30.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the day of writing as "Wednesday Morning, seven o/clock." The letter is postmarked "May 30, 1827," which fell on a Wednesday. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Place 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 seal and postmarks: "J.H. Green Esqre / &c / Lincoln's Inn Fields."
Place 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 seal and postmarks: "J.H. Green Esqre / &c / 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 he needs a bit of time to review the pages sent to him and cannot propose an earlier date than Friday or Thursday night; adding "How could you suppose there could be any Objection? If I could transfer to you the sheets of my Brain in a duplicate, you should have them without omissions or hiatus"; saying that a "portly Dame" has asked him to contribute something "in the Ottigraph way" to her album; including three humorous verses inspired by the request, among them: "[William Edward] Parry seeks the Pólar Ridge: / But rhymes seeks S.T. Coleridge / Fit for Mrs Smudger's Olbum / Or to wipe her Baby's small bum."
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