BIB_ID
416187
Accession number
MA 1856.30
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1831 September 13.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24.2 x 19 cm
Notes
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 postmarks: "J.H. Green, Esqre / &c &c / 36 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 postmarks: "J.H. Green, Esqre / &c &c / 36 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 has no relapses since they last parted and he looks forward to seeing Green tomorrow or Thursday; describing the amount of phlegm he has produced: "The quantity, that yesterday and to day, I have expectorated, from the moment of quitting my bed to near dinner time, might alarm me: but that I see grounds for the hope, that nature is in this way relieving herself"; asking how a Dr. Stevens's "new Fever-scheme" differs from the theories held by "old Sylvius" (the Dutch physician Frans de Boë), who diagnosed all diseases as being caused by a surplus or a deficiency of acid; critiquing Stevens's reasoning; attacking Stevens's beliefs about the role of citric acid in preventing scurvy; asking whether Green noticed the paragraphs in the Monday edition of the Times "with the Lines in Small Capitals inviting the Army to mutiny and refuse to obey command in case of the House of Lords rejecting or trifling with the Reform Bill?"; responding "If this hellish Licence is suffered to go on, a civil War will be the result. -- The first thing the House of Lords ought to do should be, to pass and present a solemn address to the King on the system of intimidation carried on by the Journalists & Pamphleteers under the presumed protection and partially expressed approval of his Majesty's Ministers -- including the abuse of his royal name, as an incentive to, and in sanction of, rebellion"; pointing out an item in the last Blackwood's as "interesting political Gossip"; asking to be remembered to Anne Green.
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