Your affectionate friend,
S. T. Coleridge.
T. Allsop, Esq.
It will be seen from this letter that Coleridge was falling behind with his Board money due to Gillman: hence his anxiety to form a philosophical class composed of Mr. Seth Watson, Mr. Stutfield, and others.
Letter 200. To Allsop
March 4th, 1822.
My dearest Friend,
I have been much more than ordinarily unwell for more than a week past—my sleeps worse than my vigils, my nights than my days;
——The night’s dismay
Sadden’d and stunned the intervening day;