BIB_ID
416181
Accession number
MA 1856.28
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1830 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the following for the date of writing at the end of the letter: "30 May? or 1 June? at all events, / Monday Night, 11 o'clock." The letter is postmarked "June 1, 1830," the Tuesday following May 31st. 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 and 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 seal and 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
Asking if Green has any connections to Francis Freeling, the Secretary of the Post Office; explaining "Our Harriet whose Love and Willing-mindedness to meward during my long chain of bodily miserablenesses render it my duty no less than my inclination, to shew to her that I am not insensible of her humbly affectionate attentions, has applied to me on behalf of her Brother a young man who can have an excellent Character from Lord Wynford & others for sobriety, integrity and discretion -- and who is exceedingly ambitious to get the situation of a Post man or Deliverer of Letters to the General Post office"; saying that Dr. Thomas Chalmers, accompanied by his wife and daughter, paid him a call that morning, "which the good Doctor declared on parting to have been 'a Refreshment' such as he had not enjoyed for a long season"; adding "N.B. There were no Sandwiches -- only Mrs [Eliza] Aders was present, who is most certainly a Bon[ne] bouche for both Eye and Ear -- and who looks as bright and sunshine-showery, as if nothing had ever ailed her"; writing that the main topic of conversation was the clergyman Edward Irving and "his unlucky phantasms [...] I was on the point of telling Dr Chalmers, but fortunately recollected there were Ladies & Scotch Ladies present -- that while other Scotchmen were content with Brimstone for the Itch, Irving had a rank itch for Brimstone -- Mem. sublimated by addition of Fire"; sending his kind remembrances to Anne Green in a postscript and saying that he is "pretty well on the whole, considering -- save the soreness across the base of my chest."
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