BIB_ID
416149
Accession number
MA 1856.27
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1830 February 12.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.1 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives only "Friday Morning" for the date of writing. However, the letter is postmarked "February 12, 1830," which fell on a Friday.
No place of writing is given. Based on biographical information, it was almost certainly written in London. 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 postmarks: "J. H. Green, Esqre / 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields."
No place of writing is given. Based on biographical information, it was almost certainly written in London. 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 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
Describing a socially delicate situation in which a writer, Charles Whitehead, has solicited his advice about a poem and Coleridge has arranged to meet with him, but needs to postpone the meeting and has lost his address; writing jokingly about the recent growth of Mrs. Gillman's "Organ of Locality [...] a charming improvement of her frontal sinus!"; inviting Green to come after the meeting with Whitehead and "take a beef steak" with him; describing in detail the work he would like to do with Green's assistance: "To say that I should be glad to see you, would be to say less than the truth -- for I am anxious to have it determined, which I think might be done in two consecutive days' work whether -- previous to the commencement of the individual Organization in the Vegetable Forms, a consistent, flexible, and organic Terminology can be strictly evolved out of spiritual Postulates and the Data furnished by them..."; writing further about "the applicability of the Scheme, as an organ of insight, and of solution, to the facts of organized Bodies, and the correspondence of [the] Results by ideal deduction to the Results supplied by Experience"; reminding Green about Hoffman's Tales and saying that he has heard good things about "a Novel by Professor Steffens, a Norwegian Tale -- 'die Familien Walseth und Leith'"; adding that the latter may be among the books owned by the German Book-Club; asking whether Green has ever looked into the chief work by the founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, "or Similia similibus minimissimum dose man, I mean? -- How is the great impression made by him on the German medical Press to be explained? Two crowned Skulls have built Hospitals for the System -- Emperor Nic at Tulczin in Russia & the King of Naples."
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