BIB_ID
416346
Accession number
MA 1856.50
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not identified, undated.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.7 x 10.9 cm
Notes
Title taken from the item, where it is given as "The Token, p.15." It is not known what the page number refers to.
Signed with initials.
The document is undated. Based on its provenance, it may have been created after 1817, when Coleridge first met Green.
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.
Signed with initials.
The document is undated. Based on its provenance, it may have been created after 1817, when Coleridge first met Green.
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.
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
Consisting of notes on language, the natural world and theology; beginning "That the Language of the Psalmist was most impressive and sublime, for the minds of his Countrymen and Contemporaries in their then infant state of Meteorological and Astronomical Science, no wise man can doubt. I place myself in their condition, and enter into full sympathy with the thoughts, images and emotions of the Sacred Poet. -- But with a modern writer using the same language I cannot sympathize. He mistakes the Big for the Great: the Tall for the Sublime..."; making a reference to "Frank Rabelais"; concluding "A leaf, a mite, afford a more decisive evidence of a Supreme Creator than all the dead Globes, and Sky-clods that spin round the Sun. -- S.T.C."
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