Egerton MS 3057

PHILOSOPHICAL LECTURES OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE; short reports (compiled by an unidentified member of his audience) of all but the first of his fourteen lectures on philosophy; 28 Dec. 1818-29 Mar. 1819. The present MS. also includes the text of the announcement for lecture 12, as given in The Times and the New Times, 15 Mar. 1819 (f. 25). The reports themselves comprise individual accounts, with comments, of each lecture, written out with insertions and corrections; there are also insertions on ff. 4b, 24, 26 in another hand. The shortest report, that of lecture 5, 18 Jan. 1819, bears at its head (f. 9) the note 'absent'. Full verbatim reports of most of the lectures from the Frere MS., supplemented and corrected from the present MS., from Coleridge's own lecture-notes (especially those in his notebook 25 now Add. MS. 47523), and from other of his works (Add. MSS. 34225, 47515, 47518, 47519, 47525, and Egerton MSS. 2801, 2826) have been printed, with introduction and notes, in The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. K. H. Coburn, 1949. See also K. H. Coburn, 'S. T. Coleridge's Philosophical Lectures of 1818-19', The Review of English Studies, x, 1934, PP. 428-437, and Brit. Mus. Quart., vii, 1932-1933, pp. 70-72. Paper; ff. 35. Quarto. 1818-1819. At the end of lecture 7 (f. 14b) is written in pencil the address,'Messrs. Macmillans, Cambridge', and at the end of the last lecture (f. 35 b) in Thomas Carlyle's hand appears the address 'to A[lexander] Macmillan, Esq. [the publisher], 16, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London', written probably between 1863 (when Alexander Macmillan transferred his main publishing business from Cambridge to the Covent Garden address) and 1870 (when Carlyle ceased to write in ink owing to a disability). Also on f. 35 b is written 'Coleridge Papers' followed by the name and addresses of the Rev. A. S. Page, Vicar of Selsley 1864-1891, perhaps the owner at one time of the present MS., which in 1923 was in the possession of Samuel Wells, of Sheffield. From the Farnborough Fund.