BIB_ID
416192
Accession number
MA 1856.31
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1831 September 21.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 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
Describing a partial relapse yesterday and the exhaustion that followed; adding "After 4 o'clock, P.M. however, I cleared up, had a tranquil night, and bating the exantlation of the mucus from the hold and bilge of my poor crazy Lugger, feel at present pretty comfortable"; saying that in the circumstances it might be better to defer their meeting until Sunday (Coleridge dates the letter "Wednesday Afternoon"), especially because Henry Taylor would like to bring two Members of Parliament to meet him on Thursday; responding to current events in Europe: "Warsaw! -- But what would The Times have the British & French Governments do, now? Join in attacking Austria, Prussia and Holland in order to fight their way northward to the re-conquest of Poland? -- The Hordes of the Tsar would, I doubt not, be polite enough to give them the meeting halfway"; asking to be remembered to Anne Green; reminding Green to ask Dr. John Elliotson about the inhalation of chlorine and whether it might help him: "I am strongly inclined to think, that this excessive Expectoration depends mainly on matter or secretions irritating the middle intestines: and that both the Expectoration and the sciatic weakness are effects of the same cause. But alas! who shall extricate my feet out of the Net which I have unhappily woven for myself?"
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