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5, ROYAL OPERA ARCADE
85 COLERIDGE (Sir John Taylor), Justice Coleridge, S. T.
Coleridge’s nephew. His Original Auto. MS. Common
Place Book. 216 pp. folio. Original half calf. 1812-
1818. £60
This important MS. contains a number of Poems and prose passages
written by, or relating to, members of Coleridge’s family. There
are many Unpublished Poems by J. T. Coleridge, most of which
are signed “ J. T. C.” or “ J. C. T.,” and a few have the signature
“ Jteesi,” probably in imitation of his uncle’s (S. T. Coleridge)
“ Esteesi.” There are also poems by the Rev. George Coleridge,
Henry Nelson Coleridge, and upwards of twenty by S. T. Coleridge.
J. T. Coleridge has not hitherto been known as a Poet, and apart
from his Oxford Prize Poem, “ Pyramides Egyptiacae ” (a MS. copy
of which is in the present volume) none other appears to be published.
The Poems of S. T. Coleridge present variations from the published
texts.
In addition the MS. contains many extracts from popular writers of
the time—Shelley, Byron, Lamb, Kirke White, Moore, Scott,
Southey, etc., together with pieces by Dr Johnson, Burns, Goldsmith,
Swift, and Shakespeare.
The last 14 pages are in the autograph of Henry Nelson Coleridge
(Sir John’s brother, and his uncle’s, S. T. Coleridge, literary executor),
comprising five sonnets and two poems by him.
86 COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor). A.L.s. 2 pp. 4to.
13 May 1796, to J. Fellowes. Relative to the failure of
his work : The Watchman. £45
Has received a note from him through George Dyer (Charles Lamb’s
friend and prima causa of his Essay, “Amicus Redivivus’’). At
Sheffield he received an alarming account of Mrs Coleridge’s health
and hastened home, and has since been struggling with a series of
domestic sorrows and external disappointments “ as have depressed
me beneath writing point. . . . I have now dropped the “ Watch-
man ”—and could not drop it without expressing the warmest feelings
of Gratitude to you, Sir, and my other friends at Nottingham for the
unexpected & friendly hospitality with which you received the
itinerant Patriot . . . had the miscellany succeeded in other towns
in anything like the same proportion, I should have made my future
—I did not sell more even in Bristol.” Etc.
The Watchman appeared up to the tenth number, when it was
dropped because “ it did not pay its expenses.” Letters from
Coleridge relative to his Works are very rare.
87 COLERIDGE (S. T.). His Original Holograph Manu-
script upon the Questions : “ What Metaphysically the
Spirit of God is ? What the Soul ? What the differ-
ence between the Reason and the understanding (Greek
quotation follows), and how metaphysically we may explain
c 33
85 COLERIDGE (Sir John Taylor), Justice Coleridge, S. T.
Coleridge’s nephew. His Original Auto. MS. Common
Place Book. 216 pp. folio. Original half calf. 1812-
1818. £60
This important MS. contains a number of Poems and prose passages
written by, or relating to, members of Coleridge’s family. There
are many Unpublished Poems by J. T. Coleridge, most of which
are signed “ J. T. C.” or “ J. C. T.,” and a few have the signature
“ Jteesi,” probably in imitation of his uncle’s (S. T. Coleridge)
“ Esteesi.” There are also poems by the Rev. George Coleridge,
Henry Nelson Coleridge, and upwards of twenty by S. T. Coleridge.
J. T. Coleridge has not hitherto been known as a Poet, and apart
from his Oxford Prize Poem, “ Pyramides Egyptiacae ” (a MS. copy
of which is in the present volume) none other appears to be published.
The Poems of S. T. Coleridge present variations from the published
texts.
In addition the MS. contains many extracts from popular writers of
the time—Shelley, Byron, Lamb, Kirke White, Moore, Scott,
Southey, etc., together with pieces by Dr Johnson, Burns, Goldsmith,
Swift, and Shakespeare.
The last 14 pages are in the autograph of Henry Nelson Coleridge
(Sir John’s brother, and his uncle’s, S. T. Coleridge, literary executor),
comprising five sonnets and two poems by him.
86 COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor). A.L.s. 2 pp. 4to.
13 May 1796, to J. Fellowes. Relative to the failure of
his work : The Watchman. £45
Has received a note from him through George Dyer (Charles Lamb’s
friend and prima causa of his Essay, “Amicus Redivivus’’). At
Sheffield he received an alarming account of Mrs Coleridge’s health
and hastened home, and has since been struggling with a series of
domestic sorrows and external disappointments “ as have depressed
me beneath writing point. . . . I have now dropped the “ Watch-
man ”—and could not drop it without expressing the warmest feelings
of Gratitude to you, Sir, and my other friends at Nottingham for the
unexpected & friendly hospitality with which you received the
itinerant Patriot . . . had the miscellany succeeded in other towns
in anything like the same proportion, I should have made my future
—I did not sell more even in Bristol.” Etc.
The Watchman appeared up to the tenth number, when it was
dropped because “ it did not pay its expenses.” Letters from
Coleridge relative to his Works are very rare.
87 COLERIDGE (S. T.). His Original Holograph Manu-
script upon the Questions : “ What Metaphysically the
Spirit of God is ? What the Soul ? What the differ-
ence between the Reason and the understanding (Greek
quotation follows), and how metaphysically we may explain
c 33
