—Mr. Crewe, the bookseller of Newcastle-under-Lyne, has communicated to me some corrections upon my last notice. The great potter's name was Josiah, not Joseph. This was an accidental lapsus memoriæ on my part. Wedgwood is spelt without the e, though I believe it has been spelt both ways by the family. It seems that Miss Sarah Wedgwood is still alive, and till lately resided at Camphill, Maer; but the Maer estate has been sold to Mr. Wm. Davenport, and she now resides near London. Mr. Crewe sends me the following extract, which confirms the identity of the munificent co-patron of Coleridge.
"Extract from a Letter from Coleridge to Wordsworth, dated Shrewsbury, January, 1798.
"You know that I have accepted the munificent liberality of Josiah [Joshua?] and Thomas Wedgwood; I accepted it on the presumption that I had talents, honesty, and propensities to persevering effort."
Memoirs of Wordsworth, vol. i. p. 116.
C. M. I.
Enigma on the Letter "I" (Vol. v., p. 321.).
—Having both Miss C. Fanshawe's enigmas, I send you a copy of that on the letter "I," which is inquired for by E. S. S. W., in case it should not reach you from any other quarter. In an old scrap-book in my possession it stands thus:
"ENIGMA BY LORD BYRON.
"I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age,
But in infancy ever am known: