Add MS 34225

AUTOGRAPH POEMS, prose pieces, letters, etc., of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including:-

1. "Dura Navis": a poem written as a school exercise in his 15th year, with remarks upon it added when he was 51. f. 1. Printed from this MS. by J. Dykes Campbell, Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, 1893, p. 1.

2. Two incomplete drafts of " The Destiny of Nations " (cf. Campbell, p. 70). ff. 5, 6.

3. " Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouny " (ib. pp. 165, 521)-" S. T. Coleridge intreats Mrs. Brabant to excuse the slovenly state into which this copy has degenerated from candles and carelessness . . . It is however a correct copy, and the only correct copy in existence." f. 7.

4. Two drafts of ',Lines to a Comic Author, on an abusive Review" (cf. Campbell, p. 451). ff. 9, 10.

5. A Character" (cf. Campbell, p. 195). f. 10.

6. Faith, Hope, Charity. From the Italian of Guarini." f. 14.

7. Question, Answer, and Soliloquy " (printed from this MS. by Campbell, p. 642). Dated 2 Sept. 1826. f. 18.

8. " The Triumph of Loyalty: an historic Drama in five acts. First performed with universal applause at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Saturday, February the 7th, 1801." Imperfect at the end. f. 25. lt was certainly not performed at Drury Lane on the above date; and it does not appear to have ever been performed, if it was ever completed. An extract, "The Night-Scene," was published in Sibylline Leaves, 1817 (see Campbell, pp. 183, 637, and ff. 32-34 of the present MS.).

9. Fragmentary drafts of a play entitled " Diadesté, an entertainment in one act." ff. 36-46.

10. Notes on Shakespeare (see Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare, etc., 1849, vol. i. pp. 66, 89, 105). ff. 47-53.

11. " Desultory Remarks on the present state of the Higher Drama, as connected with the Stage " (see Notes and Lectures, vol. i. pp. 34-7). ff. 54-56 b.

12. Notes on some of Shakespeare's contemporaries, and on the humour of Sterne (cf. Nos. vii. and ix. of a Course of Lectures delivered in 1818, Notes and Lectures, vol. ii. pp. 37, 83). ff. 57, 68.

13. Fragment of the " Gests of Maxilian"; not included in the " sundry select chapters" published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Jan. 1822. f. 81.

14. " Weather-bound Traveller. Rough sketch of the introductory circumstances." f. 84. See Allsop, Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, 3rd ed., 1864, p. 29.

15. "Confessions of an inquiring Spirit" : probably an early draft, with many slight variations from the printed edition. f. 85.

16. Part of a draft of "Church and State," agreeing more or loss closely with the ed. of 1830, pp. 56-78. f. 115.

17. Notes on various philosophical and other subjects, such as:-

(a) " On the distinguishing characters of Man and Mankind." f. 128;-(b) on Motion, discussing Kant's view. f. 144;-

(c) " Zoomagnetism." f. 146 ;-(d) "Genesis i[a7-A Mwo-@v." f. 149;-(e) the origin of the Pelasgi. f. 155;-(f) "Subordination of the Super-temporal, of Co-eternals." f. 158;-(g) on the Absolute. f. 160 ;--(h) " Of the dependence of Genius on the Taste of the Public." f. 165.

18. List in Coleridge's handwriting of the diplomas and testimonials of Dr. Gioachino de' Prati, with a testimonial added by himself. f. 168.

19. Five leaves (pp. 637-646) of the Eclectic Review, vol. ix. (1813), with marginal notes by Coleridge (on a review of Morton's Essay on the Trinity). f. 170.

20. Autograph drafts of letters:-(a) " To a man who offered to review W. Scott's poems to his injury," defending Scott against the charge of plagiarizing from " Christabel " ; [Dec. 1811 ]. f. 175;-(b) to a Jewish friend (most probably Hyman Hurwitz), on the Jewish and Christian creeds; 4 Jan. 1820. f. 182;-(c) to the editor of Blackwood's Monthly Magazine, on the theory of Comets; [1820?]. f. 187;-(d) to the editor of the Quarterly Review, proposing to review Napier's Peninsular War, vol. i.; [1828 or later]. f. 188. At the end are included the following original letters:-(i.) Hartley Coleridge to James Gillman, jun.; 26 June, 1819. f. 190; (ii.) William Wordsworth to H. N. Coleridge, on hearing of the death of S. T. Coleridge; 29 July, 1834. f. 192;-(iii.) John Sterling to James Gillman, on the epitaph to Coleridge; 9 Oct. 1834. f. 194. Paper; ff. 195. Folio.