Shrewsbury, Friday night, (—January), 1798.
My dear sir,
I have this moment received your letter, and have scarcely more than a moment to answer it by return of post.
If kindly feeling can be repaid by kindly feeling, I am not your debtor. I would wish to express the same thing which is big at my heart, but I know not how to do it without indelicacy. As much abstracted from personal feeling as possible, I honor and esteem you for that which you have done.
I must of necessity stay here till the close of Sunday next. On Monday morning I shall leave it, and on Tuesday will be with you at Cote-House.
Very affectionately yours,
S. T. COLERIDGE.
T. Wedgwood, Esq.
[Footnote 1: Not in "Early Recollections".]
The next letter refers to the offer of the Pension of £150 a year, which the Wedgwoods conferred on Coleridge.