1794.
FOOTNOTES:
[76:1] First published in 1796: included in 1797, 1803, 1828, 1829, and 1834. Four MS. versions are extant, (1) in Letter to Southey, Nov. [6], 1794 (Letters of S. T. C., 1895, i. 98, 99): (2) in letter to George Coleridge, Nov. 6, 1794: (3) in the Estlin copy-book: (4) in the MS. 4o. The Friend was the Rev. Fulwood Smerdon, vicar of Ottery St. Mary, who died in August 1794.
LINENOTES:
[Title]] On the Death of a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever brought on by anxiety MS. E.
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——! thy grave MS. Letter to R. S.: Smerdon! thy grave MS. Letter to G. C.
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early] earliest MS. Letters to R. S. and G. C., MS. E.