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LETTERS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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LETTERS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Edited by
ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE
In Two Volumes
VOL. I
London
William Heinemann
1895
[All rights reserved.]
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
INTRODUCTION
Hitherto no attempt has been made to publish a collection of Coleridge’s
Letters. A few specimens were published in his lifetime, both in his own
works and in magazines, and, shortly after his death in 1834, a large
number appeared in print. Allsop’s “Letters, Conversations, and
Recollections of S. T. Coleridge,” which was issued in 1836, contains
forty-five letters or parts of letters; Cottle in his “Early
Recollections” (1837) prints, for the most part incorrectly, and in
piecemeal, some sixty in all, and Gillman, in his “Life of Coleridge”
(1838), contributes, among others, some letters addressed to himself, and
one, of the greatest interest, to Charles Lamb. In 1847, a series of early
letters to Thomas Poole appeared for the first time in the Biographical
Supplement to the “Biographia Literaria,” and in 1848, when Cottle
reprinted his “Early Recollections,” under the title of “Reminiscences of
Coleridge and Southey,” he included sixteen letters to Thomas and Josiah
Wedgwood. In Southey’s posthumous “Life of Dr. Bell,” five letters of
Coleridge lie imbedded, and in “Southey’s Life and Correspondence”
(1849-50), four of his letters find an appropriate place. An interesting
series was published in 1858 in the “Fragmentary Remains of Sir H. Davy,”
edited by his brother, Dr. Davy; and in the “Diary of H. C. Robinson,”
published in 1869, a few letters from Coleridge are interspersed. In 1870,
the late Mr. W. Mark W. Call printed in the “Westminster Review” eleven
letters from Coleridge to Dr. Brabant of Devizes, dated 1815 and 1816;
and a series of early letters to Godwin, 1800-1811 (some of which had
appeared in “Macmillan’s Magazine” in 1864), was included by Mr. Kegan
Paul in his “William Godwin” (1876). In 1874, a correspondence between
Coleridge (1816-1818) and his publishers, Gale & Curtis, was contributed
to “Lippincott’s Magazine,” and in 1878, a few letters to Matilda Betham
were published in “Fraser’s Magazine.” During the last six years the vast
store which still remained unpublished has been drawn upon for various
memoirs and biographies. The following works containing new letters are
given in order of publication: Herr Brandl’s “Samuel T. Coleridge and the
English Romantic School,” 1887; “Memorials of Coleorton,” edited by
Professor Knight, 1887; “Thomas Poole and his Friends,” by Mrs. H.
Sandford, 1888; “Life of Wordsworth,” by Professor Knight, 1889; “Memoirs
of John Murray,” by Samuel Smiles, LL. D., 1891; “De Quincey Memorials,”
by Alex. Japp, LL. D., 1891; “Life of Washington Allston,” 1893.
Notwithstanding these heavy draughts, more than half of the letters which
have come under my notice remain unpublished. Of more than forty which
Coleridge wrote to his wife, only one has been published. Of ninety
letters to Southey which are extant, barely a tenth have seen the light.
Of nineteen addressed to W. Sotheby, poet and patron of poets, fourteen to
Lamb’s friend John Rickman, and four to Coleridge’s old college friend,
Archdeacon Wrangham, none have been published. Of more than forty letters
addressed to the Morgan family, which belong for the most part to the
least known period of Coleridge’s life,--the years which intervened
between his residence in Grasmere and his final settlement at
Highgate,--only two or three, preserved in the MSS. Department of the
British Museum, have been published. Of numerous letters written in later
life to his friend and amanuensis, Joseph Henry Green; to Charles
Augustus Tulk, M. P. for Sudbury; to his friends and hosts, the Gillmans;
to Cary, the translator of Dante, only a few have found their way into
print. Of more than forty to his brother, the Rev. George Coleridge, which
were accidentally discovered in 1876, only five have been printed. Of some
fourscore letters addressed to his nephews, William Hart Coleridge, John
Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Edward Coleridge, and to his son
Derwent, all but two, or at most three, remain in manuscript. Of the
youthful letters to the Evans family, one letter has recently appeared in
the “Illustrated London News,” and of the many addressed to John Thelwall,
but one was printed in the same series.
The letters to Poole, of which more than a hundred have been preserved,
those addressed to his Bristol friend, Josiah Wade, and the letters to
Wordsworth, which, though few in number, are of great length, have been
largely used for biographical purposes, but much, of the highest interest,
remains unpublished. Of smaller groups of letters, published and
unpublished, I make no detailed mention, but in the latter category are
two to Charles Lamb, one to John Sterling, five to George Cattermole, one
to John Kenyon, and many others to more obscure correspondents. Some
important letters to Lord Jeffrey, to John Murray, to De Quincey, to Hugh
James Rose, and to J. H. B. Williams, have, in the last few years, been
placed in my hands for transcription.
A series of letters written between the years 1796 and 1814 to the Rev.
John Prior Estlin, minister of the Unitarian Chapel at Lewin’s Mead,
Bristol, was printed some years ago for the Philobiblon Society, with an
introduction by Mr. Henry A. Bright. One other series of letters has also
been printed for private circulation. In 1889, the late Miss Stuart placed
in my hands transcriptions of eighty-seven letters addressed by Coleridge
to her father, Daniel Stuart, editor of “The Morning Post” and “Courier,”
and these, together with letters from Wordsworth and Southey, were printed
in a single volume bearing the title, “Letters from the Lake Poets.” Miss
Stuart contributed a short account of her father’s life, and also a
reminiscence of Coleridge, headed “A Farewell.”
Coleridge’s biographers, both of the past and present generations, have
met with a generous response to their appeal for letters to be placed in
their hands for reference and for publication, but it is probable that
many are in existence which have been withheld, sometimes no doubt
intentionally, but more often from inadvertence. From his boyhood the poet
was a voluminous if an irregular correspondent, and many letters which he
is known to have addressed to his earliest friends--to Middleton, to
Robert Allen, to Valentine and Sam Le Grice, to Charles Lloyd, to his
Stowey neighbour, John Cruikshank, to Dr. Beddoes, and others--may yet be
forthcoming. It is certain that he corresponded with Mrs. Clarkson, but if
any letters have been preserved they have not come under my notice. It is
strange, too, that among the letters of the Highgate period, which were
sent to Henry Nelson Coleridge for transcription, none to John Hookham
Frere, to Blanco White, or to Edward Irving appear to have been
forthcoming.
The foregoing summary of published and unpublished letters, though
necessarily imperfect, will enable the reader to form some idea of the
mass of material from which the present selection has been made. A
complete edition of Coleridge’s Letters must await the “coming of the
milder day,” a renewed long-suffering on the part of his old enemy, the
“literary public.” In the meanwhile, a selection from some of the more
important is here offered in the belief that many, if not all, will find a
place in permanent literature. The letters are arranged in chronological
order, and are intended rather to illustrate the story of the writer’s
life than to embody his critical opinions, or to record the development of
his philosophical and theological speculations. But letters of a purely
literary character have not been excluded, and in selecting or rejecting a
letter, the sole criterion has been, Is it interesting? is it readable?
In letter-writing perfection of style is its own recommendation, and long
after the substance of a letter has lost its savour, the form retains its
original or, it may be, an added charm. Or if the author be the founder of
a sect or a school, his writings, in whatever form, are received by the
initiated with unquestioning and insatiable delight. But Coleridge’s
letters lack style. The fastidious critic who touched and retouched his
exquisite lyrics, and always for the better, was at no pains to polish his
letters. He writes to his friends as if he were talking to them, and he
lets his periods take care of themselves. Nor is there any longer a school
of reverent disciples to receive what the master gives and because he
gives it. His influence as a teacher has passed into other channels, and
he is no longer regarded as the oracular sage “questionable” concerning
all mysteries. But as a poet, as a great literary critic, and as a “master
of sentences,” he holds his own and appeals to the general ear; and
though, since his death, in 1834, a second generation has all but passed
away, an unwonted interest in the man himself survives and must always
survive. For not only, as Wordsworth declared, was he “a wonderful man,”
but the story of his life was a strange one, and as he tells it, we
“cannot choose but hear.” Coleridge, often to his own detriment, “wore his
heart on his sleeve,” and, now to one friend, now to another, sometimes to
two or three friends on the same day, he would seek to unburthen himself
of his hopes and fears, his thoughts and fancies, his bodily sufferings,
and the keener pangs of the soul. It is, to quote his own words, these
“profound touches of the human heart” which command our interest in
Coleridge’s Letters, and invest them with their peculiar charm.
At what period after death, and to what extent the private letters of a
celebrated person should be given to the world, must always remain an open
question both of taste and of morals. So far as Coleridge is concerned,
the question was decided long age. Within a few years of his death,
letters of the most private and even painful character were published
without the sanction and in spite of the repeated remonstrances of his
literary executor, and of all who had a right to be heard on the subject.
Thenceforth, as the published writings of his immediate descendants
testify, a fuller and therefore a fairer revelation was steadily
contemplated. Letters collected for this purpose find a place in the
present volume, but the selection has been made without reference to
previous works or to any final presentation of the material at the
editor’s disposal.
My acknowledgments are due to many still living, and to others who have
passed away, for their generous permission to print unpublished letters,
which remained in their possession or had passed into their hands.
For the continued use of the long series of letters which Poole entrusted
to Coleridge’s literary executor in 1836, I have to thank Mrs. Henry
Sandford and the Bishop of Gibraltar. For those addressed to the Evans
family I am indebted to Mr. Alfred Morrison of Fonthill. The letters to
Thelwall were placed in my hands by the late Mr. F. W. Cosens, who
afforded me every facility for their transcription. For those to
Wordsworth my thanks are due to the poet’s grandsons, Mr. William and Mr.
Gordon Wordsworth. Those addressed to the Gillmans I owe to the great
kindness of their granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Watson, who placed in my hands
all the materials at her disposal. For the right to publish the letters to
H. F. Cary I am indebted to my friend the Rev. Offley Cary, the grandson
of the translator of Dante. My acknowledgments are further due to the late
Mr. John Murray for the right to republish letters which appeared in the
“Memoirs of John Murray,” and two others which were not included in that
work; and to Mrs. Watt, the daughter of John Hunter of Craigcrook, for
letters addressed to Lord Jeffrey. From the late Lord Houghton I received
permission to publish the letters to the Rev. J. P. Estlin, which were
privately printed for the Philobiblon Society. I have already mentioned my
obligations to the late Miss Stuart of Harley Street.
For the use of letters addressed to his father and grandfather, and for
constant and unwearying advice and assistance in this work I am indebted,
more than I can well express, to the late Lord Coleridge. Alas! I can only
record my gratitude.
To Mr. William Rennell Coleridge of Salston, Ottery St. Mary, my especial
thanks are due for the interesting collection of unpublished letters, many
of them relating to the “Army Episode,” which the poet wrote to his
brother, the Rev. George Coleridge.
I have also to thank Miss Edith Coleridge for the use of letters addressed
to her father, Henry Nelson Coleridge; my cousin, Mrs. Thomas W. Martyn of
Torquay, for Coleridge’s letter to his mother, the earliest known to
exist; and Mr. Arthur Duke Coleridge for one of the latest he ever wrote,
that to Mrs. Aders.
During the preparation of this work I have received valuable assistance
from men of letters and others. I trust that I may be permitted to mention
the names of Mr. Leslie Stephen, Professor Knight, Mrs. Henry Sandford,
Dr. Garnett of the British Museum, Professor Emile Legouis of Lyons, Mrs.
Henry Watson, the Librarians of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, and of the
Kensington Public Library, and Mrs. George Boyce of Chertsey.
Of my friend, Mr. Dykes Campbell, I can only say that he has spared
neither time nor trouble in my behalf. Not only during the progress of the
work has he been ready to give me the benefit of his unrivalled knowledge
of the correspondence and history of Coleridge and of his contemporaries,
but he has largely assisted me in seeing the work through the press. For
the selection of the letters, or for the composition or accuracy of the
notes, he must not be held in any way responsible; but without his aid,
and without his counsel, much, which I hope has been accomplished, could
never have been attempted at all. Of the invaluable assistance which I
have received from his published works, the numerous references to his
edition of Coleridge’s “Poetical Works” (Macmillan, 1893), and his “Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, A Narrative” (1894), are sufficient evidence. Of my
gratitude he needs no assurance.
ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE.
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF S. T. COLERIDGE
Born, October 21, 1772.
Death of his father, October 4, 1781.
Entered at Christ’s Hospital, July 18, 1782.
Elected a “Grecian,” 1788.
Discharged from Christ’s Hospital, September 7, 1791.
Went into residence at Jesus College, Cambridge, October, 1791.
Enlisted in King’s Regiment of Light Dragoons, December 2, 1793.
Discharged from the army, April 10, 1794.
Visit to Oxford and introduction to Southey, June, 1794.
Proposal to emigrate to America--Pantisocracy--Autumn, 1794.
Final departure from Cambridge, December, 1794.
Settled at Bristol as public lecturer, January, 1795.
Married to Sarah Fricker, October 4, 1795.
Publication of “Conciones ad Populum,” Clevedon, November 16, 1795.
Pantisocrats dissolve--Rupture with Southey--November, 1795.
Publication of first edition of Poems, April, 1796.
Issue of “The Watchman,” March 1-May 13, 1796.
Birth of Hartley Coleridge, September 19, 1796.
Settled at Nether-Stowey, December 31, 1796.
Publication of second edition of Poems, June, 1797.
Settlement of Wordsworth at Alfoxden, July 14, 1797.
The “Ancient Mariner” begun, November 13, 1797.
First part of “Christabel,” begun, 1797.
Acceptance of annuity of £150 from J. and T. Wedgwood, January, 1798.
Went to Germany, September 16, 1798.
Returned from Germany, July, 1799.
First visit to Lake Country, October-November, 1799.
Began to write for “Morning Post,” December, 1799.
Translation of Schiller’s “Wallenstein,” Spring, 1800.
Settled at Greta Hall, Keswick, July 24, 1800.
Birth of Derwent Coleridge, September 14, 1800.
Wrote second part of “Christabel,” Autumn, 1800.
Began study of German metaphysics, 1801.
Birth of Sara Coleridge, December 23, 1802.
Publication of third edition of Poems, Summer, 1803.
Set out on Scotch tour, August 14, 1803.
Settlement of Southey at Greta Hall, September, 1803.
Sailed for Malta in the Speedwell, April 9, 1804.
Arrived at Malta, May 18, 1804.
First tour in Sicily, August-November, 1804.
Left Malta for Syracuse, September 21, 1805.
Residence in Rome, January-May, 1806.
Returned to England, August, 1806.
Visit to Wordsworth at Coleorton, December 21, 1806.
Met De Quincey at Bridgwater, July, 1807.
First lecture at Royal Institution, January 12, 1808.
Settled at Allan Bank, Grasmere, September, 1808.
First number of “The Friend,” June 1, 1809.
Last number of “The Friend,” March 15, 1810.
Left Greta Hall for London, October 10, 1810.
Settled at Hammersmith with the Morgans, November 3, 1810.
First lecture at London Philosophical Society, November 18, 1811.
Last visit to Greta Hall, February-March, 1812.
First lecture at Willis’s Rooms, May 12, 1812.
First lecture at Surrey Institution, November 3, 1812.
Production of “Remorse” at Drury Lane, January 23, 1813.
Left London for Bristol, October, 1813.
First course of Bristol lectures, October-November, 1813.
Second course of Bristol lectures, December 30, 1813.
Third course of Bristol lectures, April, 1814.
Residence with Josiah Wade at Bristol, Summer, 1814.
Rejoined the Morgans at Ashley, September, 1814.
Accompanied the Morgans to Calne, November, 1814.
Settles with Mr. Gillman at Highgate, April 16, 1816.
Publication of “Christabel,” June, 1816.
Publication of the “Statesman’s Manual,” December, 1816.
Publication of second “Lay Sermon,” 1817.
Publication of “Biographia Literaria” and “Sibylline Leaves,” 1817.
First acquaintance with Joseph Henry Green, 1817.
Publication of “Zapolya,” Autumn, 1817.
First lecture at “Flower-de-Luce Court,” January 27, 1818.
Publication of “Essay on Method,” January, 1818.
Revised edition of “The Friend,” Spring, 1818.
Introduction to Thomas Allsop, 1818.
First lecture on “History of Philosophy,” December 14, 1818.
First lecture on “Shakespeare” (last course), December 17, 1818.
Last public lecture, “History of Philosophy,” March 29, 1819.
Nominated “Royal Associate” of Royal Society of Literature, May, 1824.
Read paper to Royal Society on “Prometheus of Æschylus,” May 15, 1825.
Publication of “Aids to Reflection,” May-June, 1825.
Publication of “Poetical Works,” in three volumes, 1828.
Tour on the Rhine with Wordsworth, June-July, 1828.
Revised issue of “Poetical Works,” in three volumes, 1829.
Marriage of Sara Coleridge to Henry Nelson Coleridge, September 3, 1829.
Publication of “Church and State,” 1830.
Visit to Cambridge, June, 1833.
Death, July 25, 1834.
PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO IN THESE VOLUMES
1. The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. New York: Harper and
Brothers, 7 vols. 1853.
2. Biographia Literaria [etc.]. By S. T. Coleridge. Second edition,
prepared for publication in part by the late H. N. Coleridge: completed
and published by his widow. 2 vols. 1847.
3. Essays on His Own Times. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by his
daughter. London: William Pickering. 3 vols. 1850.
4. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by T.
Ashe. George Bell and Sons. 1884.
5. Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge. [Edited
by Thomas Allsop. First edition published anonymously.] Moxon. 2 vols.
1836.
6. The Life of S. T. Coleridge, by James Gillman. In 2 vols. (Vol. I. only
was published.) 1838.
7. Memorials of Coleorton: being Letters from Coleridge, Wordsworth and
his sister, Southey, and Sir Walter Scott, to Sir George and Lady Beaumont
of Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1803-1834. Edited by William Knight,
University of St. Andrews. 2 vols. Edinburgh. 1887.
8. Unpublished Letters from S. T. Coleridge to the Rev. John Prior Estlin.
Communicated by Henry A. Bright (to the Philobiblon Society). n. d.
9. Letters from the Lake Poets--S. T. Coleridge, William Wordsworth,
Robert Southey--to Daniel Stuart, editor of _The Morning Post_ and _The
Courier_. 1800-1838. _Printed for private circulation._ 1889. [Edited by
Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, in whom the copyright of the letters of S.
T. Coleridge is vested.]
10. The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited, with a
Biographical Introduction, by James Dykes Campbell. London and New York:
Macmillan and Co. 1893.
11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A Narrative of the Events of His Life. By
James Dykes Campbell. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1894.
12. Early Recollections: chiefly relating to the late S. T. Coleridge,
during his long residence in Bristol. 2 vols. By Joseph Cottle. 1837.
13. Reminiscences of S. T. Coleridge and R. Southey. By Joseph Cottle.
1847.
14. Fragmentary Remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy,
Bart. Edited by his brother, John Davy, M. D. 1838.
15. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt. London. 1860.
16. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson.
Selected and Edited by Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. London. 1869.
17. A Group of Englishmen (1795-1815): being records of the younger
Wedgwoods and their Friends. By Eliza Meteyard. 1871.
18. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge [Mrs. H. N. Coleridge]. Edited by
her daughter. 2 vols. 1873.
19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School. By Alois
Brandl. English Edition by Lady Eastlake. London. 1887.
20. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Edited by Alfred Ainger. 2 vols. 1888.
21. Thomas Poole and his Friends. By Mrs. Henry Sandford. 2 vols. 1888.
22. The Life and Correspondence of R. Southey. Edited by his son, the Rev.
Charles Cuthbert Southey. 6 vols. 1849-50.
23. Selections from the Letters of R. Southey. Edited by his son-in-law,
John Wood Warter, B. D. 4 vols. 1856.
24. The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Esq., LL.D. 9 vols. London.
1837.
25. Memoirs of William Wordsworth. By Christopher Wordsworth, D. D., Canon
of Westminster [afterwards Bishop of Lincoln]. 2 vols. 1851.
26. The Life of William Wordsworth. By William Knight, LL.D. 3 vols. 1889.
27. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. With an
Introduction by John Morley. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1889.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
NOTE. Where a letter has been printed previously to its appearance in this
work, the name of the book or periodical containing it is added in
parenthesis.
PAGE
CHAPTER I. STUDENT LIFE, 1785-1794.
I. THOMAS POOLE, February, 1797. (Biographia Literaria, 1847,
ii. 313) 4
II. THOMAS POOLE, March, 1797. (Biographia Literaria, 1847,
ii. 315) 6
III. THOMAS POOLE, October 9, 1797. (Biographia Literaria,
1847, ii. 319) 10
IV. THOMAS POOLE, October 16, 1797. (Biographia Literaria,
1847, ii. 322) 13
V. THOMAS POOLE, February 19, 1798. (Biographia Literaria,
1847, ii. 326) 18
VI. MRS. COLERIDGE, Senior, February 4, 1785. (Illustrated
London News, April 1, 1893) 21
VII. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, undated, before 1790. (Illustrated
London News, April 1, 1893) 22
VIII. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, October 16, 1791. (Illustrated
London News, April 8, 1893) 22
IX. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, January 24, 1792 23
X. MRS. EVANS, February 13, 1792 26
XI. MARY EVANS, February 13, 1792 30
XII. ANNE EVANS, February 19, 1792 37
XIII. MRS. EVANS, February 22 [1792] 39
XIV. MARY EVANS, February 22 [1792] 41
XV. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, April [1792]. (Illustrated London
News, April 8, 1893) 42
XVI. MRS. EVANS, February 5, 1793 45
XVII. MARY EVANS, February 7, 1793. (Illustrated London News,
April 8, 1893) 47
XVIII. ANNE EVANS, February 10, 1793 52
XIX. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, July 28, 1793 53
XX. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE [Postmark, August 5, 1793] 55
XXI. G. L. TUCKETT, February 6 [1794], (Illustrated London
News, April 15, 1893) 57
XXII. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, February 8, 1794 59
XXIII. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, February 11, 1794 60
XXIV. CAPT. JAMES COLERIDGE, February 20, 1794. (Brandl’s Life
of Coleridge, 1887, p. 65) 61
XXV. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, March 12, 1794. (Illustrated
London News, April 15, 1893) 62
XXVI. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, March 21, 1794 64
XXVII. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, end of March, 1794 66
XXVIII. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, March 27, 1794 66
XXIX. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, March 30, 1794 68
XXX. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, April 7, 1794 69
XXXI. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, May 1, 1794 70
XXXII. ROBERT SOUTHEY, July 6, 1794. (Sixteen lines published,
Southey’s Life and Correspondence, 1849, i. 212) 72
XXXIII. ROBERT SOUTHEY, July 15, 1794. (Portions published in
Letter to H. Martin, July 22, 1794, Biographia Literaria,
1847, ii. 338) 74
XXXIV. ROBERT SOUTHEY, September 18, 1794. (Eighteen lines
published, Southey’s Life and Correspondence, 1849, i. 218) 81
XXXV. ROBERT SOUTHEY, September 19, 1794 84
XXXVI. ROBERT SOUTHEY, September 26, 1794 86
XXXVII. ROBERT SOUTHEY, October 21, 1794 87
XXXVIII. ROBERT SOUTHEY, November, 1794 95
XXXIX. ROBERT SOUTHEY, Autumn, 1794. (Illustrated London News,
April 15, 1893) 101
XL. REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE, November 6, 1794 103
XLI. ROBERT SOUTHEY, December 11, 1794 106
XLII. ROBERT SOUTHEY, December 17, 1794 114
XLIII. ROBERT SOUTHEY, December, 1794. (Eighteen lines
published, Southey’s Life and Correspondence, 1849, i. 227) 121
XLIV. MARY EVANS, (?) December, 1794. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
A Narrative, 1894, p. 38) 122
XLV. MARY EVANS, December 24, 1794. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
A Narrative, 1894, p. 40) 124
XLVI. ROBERT SOUTHEY, December, 1794 125