BIB_ID
416124
Accession number
MA 1856.26
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1829 February 7.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Date of writing taken from the postmark. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
No place of writing is given. However, based on biographical information, it was almost certainly written in London.
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 / Lincoln's Inn Fields."
No place of writing is given. However, based on biographical information, it was almost certainly written in London.
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 / 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 is missing the second volume and part of the third volume of Eichhorn's Einleitung in das Neue Testament (Introduction to the New Testament) and he needs them because he is beginning to work on his notes to the Epistles of Paul; adding "For to the reading of the N.T. and collating our version with the Greek, I commonly appropriate the two last hours of my waking day"; asking if Green or his wife could bring the two volumes tomorrow; saying that he believes that he has established that the Acts of the Apostles are "two works of different dates" that have been blended or assumed to be one because they were written on the same scroll; expanding on this argument; adding that he therefore divides the New Testament into two parts, "Apostolic and the earliest post-apostolic," and listing which books fall under which part.
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