BIB_ID
416198
Accession number
MA 1856.33
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1832 January 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.7 cm
Notes
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 / 36. Lincoln's Inn Fields."
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 / 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 the state of his health since Green left; saying that he had no relapse until last night: "A fear indeed came upon me, while I was undressing -- but I soon fell asleep, & slept for about two hours -- but then came the sensation of wakefulness -- heat about the back with soreness of the chest -- & soon I found sweat-drops running down my face, like rain, and all my trunk was in strong perspiration for an hour or more, my feet and legs remaining, or having the sensation of being, as cold as ice. -- I had uneasiness, but no positive pain, that in which or in the nerves correspondent to which I conceived the head quarters of my Malady to be situated -- that is, the hand's breadth between the Navel and the Pit of the Stomach"; describing the progression of the pain and its eventual retreat, though "for the last hour or two I have been so depressed, so sickish and so uneasy in my bowels, that I lost all heart to write to you, so as to reach you before Thursday"; asking if Green remembers a "little black Shaving-Pot, that used to stand on the Hob in my Room --?"; saying that Harriet has taken it away and replaced it with a new one; saying that this aroused certain feelings in him, which he "got rid of, on the spur of the moment, and to the rise and fall, the sea-like hexameter & pentameter Rhythm, of my Pegasus in the following Elegy or hypertrophied Sonnet"; signing his name; transcribing the poem, titled "A Sesqui-Sonnet -- or Elegiac Farewell to my black Tin Shaving-Pot"; signing his name a second time.
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