BIB_ID
416183
Accession number
MA 1856.29
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1831 January 18.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.5 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives only "Tuesday Night" for the date of writing. However, the letter is postmarked "January 19, 1831" and in that week, Tuesday fell on the 18th. 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 / 46 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 / 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
Saying that if this note does not reach Green before he has left for Highgate, it is probably all for the best, as it is not clear that Derwent will arrive in Highgate from Harrow before tomorrow evening; adding that he had forgotten that Derwent would be leaving for Cornwall on Thursday morning and "of course I should wish to dedicate to him the few hours between his return from Harrow & his departure for Cornwall. I know of no other gentleman, for whom I would defer seeing you, or lose a day of you -- unless you should be disengaged on Friday or Saturday"; adding in a postscript that he has been very interested lately in an article in the Quarterly Review on Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology: "Lyell's motto seems to be -- As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, World without end. As far as I can judge from the Review, he has a half-truth by the tail -- tho' not half the truth. He sees (dimly indeed) the Eternity in the Time; but not -- which is of no less necessity -- the Time in the Eternity. Nathless, to see any truth ([a symbol] a fact) is a merit in a hodiern english Naturalist, which has for me the attraction of novelty."
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