Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 1 (of 2)
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
LETTERS
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
EDITED BY ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
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 During the last six years the vast store which still remained unpublished has been drawn upon for various memoirs and biographies.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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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INTRODUCTION
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF S. T. COLERIDGE
PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO IN THESE VOLUMES
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
I. TO THOMAS POOLE.
II. TO THE SAME.
III. TO THE SAME.
IV. TO THE SAME.
V. TO THE SAME.
VI. TO HIS MOTHER.
VII. TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE.
VIII. TO THE SAME.
IX. TO THE SAME.
X. TO MRS. EVANS.
XI. TO MARY EVANS.
XII. TO ANNE EVANS.
XIII. TO MRS EVANS.
XIV. TO MARY EVANS.
XV. TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE.
XVI. TO MRS. EVANS.
XVII. TO MARY EVANS.
XVIII. TO ANNE EVANS.
XIX. TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE.
XX. TO THE SAME.
XXII. TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE.
XXIII. TO THE SAME.
XXIV. TO CAPTAIN JAMES COLERIDGE.
XXV. TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE.
XXVI. TO THE SAME.
XXVII. TO THE SAME.
XXVIII. TO THE SAME.
XXIX. TO THE SAME.
XXX. TO THE SAME.
XXXI. TO THE SAME.
XXXII. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
XXXIII. TO THE SAME.
XXXIV. TO THE SAME.
XXXV. TO THE SAME.
XXXVI. TO THE SAME.
XXXVII. TO THE SAME.
XXXVIII. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
XXXIX. TO THE SAME.
XL. TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE.
XLI. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
XLII. TO THE SAME.
XLIII. TO THE SAME.
XLIV. TO MARY EVANS.
XLV. TO THE SAME.
XLVI. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
XLVII. TO JOSEPH COTTLE.
XLVIII. TO THE SAME.
XLIX. TO THE SAME.
L. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
LI. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LIV. TO JOSEPH COTTLE.
LV. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LVI. TO THE SAME.
LVII. TO JOHN THELWALL.
LVIII. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LIX. TO JOHN THELWALL.
LX. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LXII. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LXIII. TO THE SAME.
LXIV. TO JOHN THELWALL.
LXVI. TO THE SAME.
LXVII. TO THE SAME.
LXVIII. TO JOHN THELWALL.
LXIX. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LXX. TO JOHN THELWALL.
LXXI. TO REV. J. P. ESTLIN.
LXXII. TO JOHN THELWALL.
LXXIV. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
LXXV. TO JOHN THELWALL.
LXXVI. TO THE SAME.
LXXVII. TO THE SAME.
LXXVIII. TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
LXXIX. TO JOSEPH COTTLE.
LXXX. TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE.
LXXXII. TO THE SAME.
LXXXIII. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LXXXIV. TO THE SAME.
LXXXVI. TO THOMAS POOLE.
LXXXVII. TO HIS WIFE.
LXXXVIII. TO THE SAME.
LXXXIX. TO THE SAME.
XC. TO THE SAME.
XCII. TO THOMAS POOLE.
XCIII. TO HIS WIFE.
XCIV. TO THE SAME.
XCV. TO THOMAS POOLE.
XCVI. TO HIS WIFE.
XCVII. TO THE SAME.
XCVIII. TO THOMAS POOLE.
XCIX. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
C. TO THOMAS POOLE.
CI. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
CII. TO THE SAME.
CIII. TO THE SAME.
CIV. TO THE SAME.
CV. TO THE SAME.
CVI. TO THE SAME.
CVII. TO THE SAME.
CVIII. TO THE SAME.
CIX. TO THE SAME.
CX. TO THOMAS POOLE.
CXI. TO SIR H. DAVY.
CXII. TO THE SAME.
CXIII. TO THE SAME.
CXIV. TO THOMAS POOLE.
CXV. TO SIR H. DAVY.
CXVI. TO THOMAS POOLE.
CXVII. TO THE SAME.
CXVIII. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
CXIX. TO THE SAME.
CXX. TO THE SAME.
CXXI. TO THE SAME.
CXXII. TO THOMAS POOLE.
CXXIII. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
CXXIV. TO HIS WIFE.
CXXV. TO W. SOTHEBY.
CXXVI. TO THE SAME.
CXXVIII. TO THE SAME.
CXXIX. TO W. SOTHEBY.
CXXX. TO THE SAME.
CXXXI. TO THE SAME.
CXXXII. TO HIS WIFE.
CXXXIII. TO THE REV. J. P. ESTLIN.
CXXXIV. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
CXXXV. TO THOMAS WEDGWOOD.
CXXXVI. TO HIS WIFE.
CXXXVII. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
CXXXVIII. TO THE SAME.
CXXXIX. TO THE SAME.
CXL. TO HIS WIFE.
CXLI. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
CXLII. TO THE SAME.
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