Do not, my dearest friend, therefore let my perplexities, derived in great measure from my unacquaintance with the facts, and to which my ever-wakeful affection gave the origin, prevent you from treating, as you were wont to do.
Your truly sincere
S. T. Coleridge.
T. Allsop, Esq.
Letter 216. To Allsop
Saturday, May 2nd, 1825.
My dear Friend,
I am sure you did not mean that the interest I feel in this undertaking was one which I was likely to throw off, or one which there was any chance of my not retaining; but I would fain have you not even speak or write below that line of friendship and mutual implicit reliance, on which you and I stand. We are in the world, and obliged to chafe and chaffer with it; but we are not of the world, nor will we use its idioms or adopt its brogue.
God bless you, and your affectionate Friend,
S. T. Coleridge.