[87] [Letter CXCVIII is our 162. CXCIX follows.]
[88] [Letter CC is our 163. CCI-CCIV follow.]
[89] [Mr. John Mackinnon Robertson, in New Essays towards a Critical Method, 1897, employs this epithet to describe Coleridge.]
[90] This statement requires an explanation, which none now can give. Was the far larger proportion of this £300 appropriated to the discharge of Opium debts? This does not seem unlikely, as Mr. C. lived with friends, and he could contract few other debts [Cottle]. [This note is most misleading. Coleridge’s receipt for the £300 is dated November 12, 1807 (De Quincey Memorials. I, 132). At this time, and for long after it, Coleridge never lived with friends except the Morgans, whom he paid. Cottle’s assumption is baseless.]
[91] “Of the truth of what I say.”—Early Recollections.
[92] [Letters CCV-CCVII follow 165.]
[93] [Coleridge gives a general acknowledgment of indebtedness; and doubtless when he wrote the Biographia he could not always discriminate in his note-books what was Schelling’s and what was his own.]
[94] This is too strong an expression. It was not idleness, it was not sensual indulgence, that led Coleridge to contract this habit. No, it was latent disease, of which sufficient proof is given in this memoir.—[Note by Gillman.]
[95] [Letter CCVIII is our 166.]
[96] [Cottle or Estlin.]