[139] [The Essay for the R.S.L. referred to in letter 215 is the Disquisition on the Prometheus of Aeschylus delivered before the Royal Society of Literature on 18th May, 1825. It is one of the most mystical of all Coleridge’s productions.]
[140] [Sir Henry Taylor.]
[141] [Letters CCXL-CCLIX follow 218.]
[142] [The error “Ellen” in line 91 may have arisen from Coleridge having called the heroine Ellen, after that of Lewis’s Ellen of Eglantine, but afterwards having changed that name for Alice in the other stanzas forgetting to alter the word in line 91.]
[143] [Coleridge in his youth was about five feet ten inches in height.]
[144] Journal of a Residence in Scotland and Tour through England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. With a Memoir of the Author and Extracts from his Religious Papers. Compiled by Isaac McLellan, jr., Boston, 1834.]
[145] [The Gillmans of Highgate, p. 28.]
[146] [Letter CCLX of E. H. Coleridge’s Letters of S. T. C. is our No. 219.]
[147] [25th July 1834.]
[148] [For the correct dates of the Lectures see p. 167 of this volume.]