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LETTERS OF
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
LETTERS
OF
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
EDITED BY
ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1895
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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’sLetters. A few specimens were published in his lifetime, both in his ownworks and in magazines, and, shortly after his death in 1834, a largenumber appeared in print. Allsop’s “Letters, Conversations, andRecollections of S. T. Coleridge,” which was issued in 1836, containsforty-five letters or parts of letters; Cottle in his “EarlyRecollections” (1837) prints, for the most part incorrectly, and inpiecemeal, some sixty in all, and Gillman, in his “Life of Coleridge”(1838), contributes, among others, some letters addressed to himself, andone, of the greatest interest, to Charles Lamb. In 1847, a series of earlyletters to Thomas Poole appeared for the first time in the BiographicalSupplement to the “Biographia Literaria,” and in 1848, when Cottlereprinted his “Early Recollections,” under the title of “Reminiscences ofColeridge and Southey,” he included sixteen letters to Thomas and JosiahWedgwood. In Southey’s posthumous “Life of Dr. Bell,” five letters ofColeridge lie imbedded, and in “Southey’s Life and Correspondence”(1849-50), four of his letters find an appropriate place. An interestingseries 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[Pg iv]letters from Coleridge to Dr. Brabant of Devizes, dated 1815 and 1816;