BIB_ID
416340
Accession number
MA 1856.48
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1834 March 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Coleridge gives the date of writing as "March 1834" and notes in the letter that it was written on a Monday night. The letter is postmarked "March 18, 1834" (a Tuesday), and therefore was most likely written on the 17th. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
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: "Professor (J.H.) Green / &c &c / 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: "Professor (J.H.) Green / &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
Telling Green that Harriet Macklin had noticed that evening a "peculiar red streak or splash, running from my left eye, which had been for many days at morn and night weapy and weak, down the cheek along by that old tumor of my left cheek, which I date from the Top of the Brocken, Hartz, Midsummer Midnight, 1800 -- or 1799, I forget which"; saying that he has been unwell all day with "my old duodenal umbilical uneasiness while I lay in bed, & when I got up, sick & wind-strangled"; adding that, when Harriet pointed out the red streak, he immediately noticed a difference in heat between that side of his face and the corresponding side and sent for Gillman's assistant Taylor, "who deems it a slight Erysipylas, or ERISYPALOTÖID ERYTHEMA"; saying that this was "the very thing that carried off my Acquaintance-friend, Sir George Beaumont, who had likewise the same tumour, in nape of the neck & below the chin, in 5 days from it's first very unalarming appearance"; writing "Now as I should like to see you before I went, if to go I am -- & leave with you, the sole Depositarium of my Mind & Aspirations, what God may suggest to me -- therefore, if you can, come to me during the week."
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