BIB_ID
416336
Accession number
MA 1856.47
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1833 November 3.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 20.4 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Coleridge lists the date of writing as "Sunday Night" at the end of the letter. The letter is postmarked "November 4, 1833" (a Monday), suggesting that it was probably written on the 3rd. 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 / &c &c / 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 / &c &c / 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 Green if he thinks the expense would be justified if he purchased "from the Bible Society (the Church Bible Society) a Quarto Bible with the Apocrypha between the Old and New Testament -- in sheets: and [had] them half-bound in three or four Volumes interleaved"; explaining that he is distraught about "my wilderness of Scraps, and Booklets little better, or less volatile & fugitive"; describing what he would like to do with these volumes: "If I had such a Book, I certainly would begin the New Year (God prolonging my life & vouchsafing competent Health) with the first of Genesis, and make a point of reading one or more chapters every night -- so that I might hope at the end of the year to have left behind some 3 or 400 Chapters, corrected according to my best judgement, aided by the best recent German Versions -- and on important points availing myself of [Hyman] Hurwitz's Aid as to Original Text -- while longer Notes I could write in a separate Book, carefully paged -- and thus referred to in the interleaves of the Bible"; asking whether, if this strikes Green as a plausible idea, he could make inquiries about what the expense would be for the "Copy, interleaving and binding" (a symbol whose meaning is unclear also appears in the middle of this sentence); saying that he was sorry not to have intercepted Green before he left the house, in order to get his thoughts on Anne Gillman's condition: "I am very low & disquieted about her -- & Mr Gillman seems to apprehend some injury beyond the Bruise on the Cap & ball of the Knee -- & Mr. Tottill [the physician G.L. Tuthill] a wrench of the Pelvis. -- I pray fervently that God in his Mercy will suffer this cloud to pass from over us"; sending his love and respects to Green's wife and mother.
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