BIB_ID
416328
Accession number
MA 1856.45
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1833 September 2.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 25.3 x 19.9 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 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
Saying that John Kennard has been with him that afternoon, discussing Coleridge's promise to be godfather to his son (Adam Steinmetz Kennard), and that he has arranged to go to Hackney next Thursday for the ceremony; mentioning that his nephew and son-in-law Henry Nelson Coleridge is going to Devon tomorrow for "his part Vacation and part Registering Barristership [...] I wonder, the Whigs employ such an inveterate Tory! But I forgot -- Lord Brougham by way of a (not very veracious) Self-denying Egoism, & a popularity-sop, has consigned the selection to the Judges"; adding that the recent "Equinoctials" have made Henry wary of going by steamer and his father (James Coleridge) has "written to interdict the Hazard"; saying that he looks forward to discussing with Green a theological point concerning the "reconciling with right reason the belief, or believed Antecedents & Accompaniments of the essential Belief of the Christian Church, rather than as an attempt to give an historical or narrative Character to Beings, whose practical moral interest for us is superseded by the divine Omnipresence"; writing further about his aims and ideas in this area; adding "Besides, I dread even the appearance of an approximation to the Neo-platonic Proclo-plotinian Scheme & Process"; reminding him not to forget a pen-knife: "This vile tool in it's product may remind you, as the difficulty of being legible does, / my very dear Friend, / Your obliged & affectionate / S.T. Coleridge."
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