BIB_ID
416334
Accession number
MA 1856.46
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1833 October 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 20.6 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Coleridge lists only "Monday Night" for the date of writing. However, the letter is postmarked "October 29, 1833" and the Monday of that week fell on the 28th. 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
Asking if Green could transcribe or have transcribed the manuscript notes Coleridge made in a copy of Daniel Waterland's A Vindication of Christ's Divinity for him, particularly the notes on "Pantheism as the only possible speculative Atheism: & that it is Atheism: & that Socinianism stops short of it only because it is lazy, and lily-livered -- shrinks from the ugliness of it's own thought and Ergo -- halts, and turns out of the strait road, & cowering down to ease itself from the drastic effects of it's own cowardice looks to the eyes of my refined imagination like a poached Egg with a crack in it"; adding that he would also like to have a copy of the notes on "the IDEA of the Trinity, & the evil of the absence of the same in Waterland & Bull" and other textual and theological questions: "I should like to have these transferred into my Fly-Catcher. But now I think of it, you might as well bring the Volume itself with you; and I can transcribe them myself or get James to do it"; asking for a particular German work, if it is available at the "German Bookseller's"; writing that, in order to compensate Green for the postage and intrusions on his "purse & patience," he encloses an epitaph that he re-wrote the previous night, "or rather re-thought (for I am now first to re-write it) on an Author not wholly unknown; but better known by the initials of his Name than by the Name itself -- which he fondly Græcized -- [a line in Greek]" (this is a reference to Coleridge himself); adding "Hic Jacet, qui stetit, restat, resurget" and signing himself "ESTEESE"; including an eight-line poem titled "On a Tombstone."
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