APPENDIX AND ADDITIONAL NOTES
Reading edition
APPENDIX
Letters contained in this work drawn from Joseph Cottle’s Early Recollections (1837), and his Reminiscences (1847)
E. R.REM.
Letter 15Vol. i,p. 150 p. 74
”16” 18497
”17” 16484
”18” 16585
”19” 16685
”20” 16987
”21” 17290
”22” 17188
”23” 14067
”24” 13765
”25” 14168
”30” 14470
”31” 14570
”32” 15981
”38” 17390
”41” 209115
”48” 197107
”49” 229, 188130, 100
”50” 230130
”51” 219122
”52” 213118
”53” 224126
”54” 232132
”55” 211117
”56” 190102
”57” 239136
E. R.REM.
Letter 58Vol. i,p. 240 p. 137
”59” 246140
”60” 230131
”61” 250142
”62” 274149
”63” 252144
”64” 254148
”65” 253144
”66” 234133
”67” 255149
”68” 251143
”69” 288159
”70” 305171
”71 —172
”72” 307173
”74” 307173
”76” 294, 251164, 143
”77” 296165
”78” 297165
”79” 300167
”80” 311176
”81” 315179
”85 —425
”88 —429
”89 —432
”93 —435
”99 —438
”100 —453
”104Vol. ii, p. 18,254
”111 —443
”112 —448
”113 —450
”114 —454
”115 —458
”116 —459
”117 —461
”118 —463
”122 —465
E. R.REM.
Letter 123Vol. i,p. 201 p. 109
”124 —467
”125 —471
”128 —472
”131Vol. ii, p. 7505
”132Vol. i, p. 204112
”133Vol. ii, p. 83314
”134” 116337
”135” 131345
”136” 126341
”139” 133 346
”153 —351
”154” 146357
”155” 112336
”156” 147358
”157 —359
”158” 155366
”159” 160370
”160” 162371
”161” 164380
”162” 165 380
”163” 185394
”164” 174386
”165” 177389
”219” 193397
Letters Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 30, 32, and 38 were included in the Biographical Supplement. The text of these eleven letters is that of the Supplement.
Letters in the Life of William Godwin, not included in this work nor in Letters of S. T. Coleridge(1895)
1.Letter to Godwin, vol. ii,p. 1.8January 1800
2. ” ” ”2.3March 1800
3. ” ” ”6.11September 1800
4.Letter to Godwin,vol. ii,p. 13.9December 1800
5. ” ” ”15.17December 1800
6. ” ” ”79.8July 1801
7. ” ” ”81.22Sept. 1801
8. ” ” ”83.19Nov. 1801
MEMORIALS OF COLEORTON (1887)
Letters by Coleridge to Sir George and Lady Beaumont, not included in Letters of S. T. Coleridge (1895)
1. Letter to Sir George and Lady Beaumont, vol. i, p. 1. 12 August, 1803
2. ” ” ” vol. i, p. 6. 22 September 1803
3. ” ” ” vol. i, p. 12. 1 October 1803
4. Sir George Beaumont, vol. i, p. 38. 30 January 1804
5. ” ” ” p. 43. 1 February 1804
6. Lady Beaumont, vol. i, p. 52. 5 March 1804
7. Sir George Beaumont, vol. i, p. 55. 8 March 1804
8. p. 58. 6 April 1804
9. ” Sir George and Lady Beaumont, vol. i, p. 69. Malta, 1 August 1804
10. ” Sir George Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 44. 18 February 1808
11. ” ” ” p. 63. 17 December 1808
12. ” ” ” p. 69. 2 January 1809
13. ” Lady Beaumont, p. 96. 21 January 1810
14. ” ” 124. 16 March 1811
15. ” Sir George and Lady Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 164. (1806 or 1811?)
16. Letter to Sir George Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 171. 9 June 1814
17. ” Lady Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 194. January 1821?
18. ” ” 246. 18 March 1826
Letters in Thomas Poole and his Friends, by Mrs. Henry Sandford (1888), not contained in the Biographical Supplement, nor in Letters of S. T. C. (1895).
Vol. i, p.10,S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole—1799
154, ” ”? Aug. 1796
179, ” ”15 Nov. 1796
180, ” ”(Nov.) 1796
271, ” ”June 1798
295, ” ”8 April 1799
300, ” Mrs. Coleridge6 May 1799
Vol. ii, 1–2, ” Thomas Poole— January 1800
5, ” ”14 February 1800
7, ” ”— Mch. 1800
8–9, ” ”31 Mch. 1800
10–11, ” ”14 August 1800
15, ” ”— October 1800
22–3, ” ”7 January 1801
26, ” ”1 February 1801
30, ” ”13 February 1801
40, ” ”Mch.-Apl. 1801
44, ” ”Apl.-May 1801
48, ” ”17 May 1801
57, ” ”1 July 1801
63, ” ”7 Sept. 1801
66, ” ”5 October 1801
71, ” ”21 October 1801
79, ” ”7 May 1802
99, ” ”17 Dec. 1802
101, ” ”29 Dec. 1802
226, ” ”4 Dec. 1808
258, note, and 279–80, ” ”July 1821?
280, ” ”2 January 1827
Letters contained in Brandl’s Life of Coleridge (1887)
P. 267,Coleridge to Samuel Purkis, of Brentford.(Autumn) 1800
323, ” H. C. Robinson.18 Nov. 1811
362, ” H. C. Robinson.20 June 1817
354, ” H. C. Robinson.3 Decr. 1817
357, ” John Morgan.5 January 1818
351, ” John Taylor Coleridge.8 May 1825
373, ” Basil Montagu.1 Feby. 1826
Letters contained in Professor Knight’s Life Of Wordsworth, not appearing in this work, or Letters of S. T. C. (1895)
Vol. i, p. 180,Coleridge to W. Wordsworth.— 1798
p. 184, ” — 1798
p. 184, ” — 1799
p. 184, ”— 1799
p. 195, ”Summer 1799
p. 198, ” Dorothy Wordsworth— 1799
p. 201, ” W. Wordsworth.12 Oct. 1799
p. 201, ”Dec. 1799
p. 202, ”Feby. 1800
Vol. ii, p. 13, ”16 Feby. 1804
p. 14, ”4 April 1804
p. 100, ”Spring 1808
p. 172, ” John Morgan27 Mch. 1812
Letters contained in William Blackwood and His Sons, by Mrs. Oliphant (1897)
Vol. i, p. 408,S. T. Coleridge to William Blackwood.(Spring) 1819
” 412, ” ”230 June 1819
” 413, ” ”224 Feby. 1826
” 414, ” ”220 October 1829
” 416, ” ”215 May 1830
” 419, ” ”26 May 1832
Letters contained in the Life of Alaric Watts, By his son, Alaric Alfred Watts (1884)
Vol. 1, p. 152,S. T. Coleridge to Alaric Watts.(1823–1824)
” 243, ” ”(1827)
” 288, ” ”(1827)
” 288, ” ”(1827)
” 290, ” ”1 January 1828
” 291, ” ”14 September 1828
Letters contained in John Hookham Frere and his Friends, by Gabrielle Festing, 1899.
Chap. XI, p. 218,S. T. Coleridge to J. H. Frere.(—1816)
” 220, ” George Frere.Dec. 1816
” 221, ” ”19 Dec. 1816
” 222, ” J. H. Frere.27 June 1817
” 224, ” ”16 July 1817
” 227, ” ”(—1827)
” 228, ” ”(no date)
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Biographical Supplement.—The original Text of the Supplement of the Biographia Literaria, 2 vols., 1847, by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Sara Coleridge, is as follows:
Pp. 311–35, vol. i, pp. 1–29 to “5th of February 1791”of this work.
335–38, ” 30–34 to “destined to turn”of this work.
338–44, ” 35–41 to “pantisocratical basis”of this work.
344–45, ” 44–46 to “22nd of September 1794”of this work.
345–48, ” 47–51 to “S. T. Coleridge”of this work.
348–50, ” 53–56 to “expected” ”
350–55, ” 56–62 to “S. T. C.” ”
355–60, ” 63–68 to “S. T. Coleridge” ”
360–62, ” 71–74 to “S.T. Coleridge” ”
362–3, ” 76–76 to “never arrived” ”
363–77, ” 77–92 to “latest convictions” ”
377–86, ” 96–105 to “S. C.” ”
386–90, ” 114–119 to “plaintive warbling” ”
391, ” 121 to “were written” ”
391–411, vol. ii, 76–99 to “name behind” ”
411–21, ” 104–115 to “candid” ”
422–25, ” 280–284 to “Demosius and Mystes”of this work.
426–32, ” 305–312 to “Fall of Rora” of this work.
Cottle’s Text.—Cottle has been severely blamed for tampering with the text of the letters of Coleridge. The most glaring changes occur in Letter 32, in which Cottle inserts the names of Lamb, Wordsworth and Dr. Parr, and in Letter 123, in which he alters his own name for that of Biggs, his partner. His changes consist mostly of omissions. Letters 99, 114, 117, 122, which are given in full in T. Litchfield’s Tom Wedgwood the First Photographer, are the principal sufferers from Cottle’s treatment. It cannot be said that these omissions amount to a serious charge against Cottle. They were made to avoid bringing in the names of people still alive or whose near relations might object to their names figuring in a publication, and also to avoid obtruding Coleridge’s complaints about his ill-health and his own treatment into notice. His tampering with the letters of Southey, in which he makes Southey say what he never wrote, is not, of course, defensible (see Dykes Campbell’s Life of Coleridge, p. 204 note). Cottle’s longest omission is in Letter 99, to Wedgwood, where Coleridge quotes what Lamb had written to him about Cottle’s own poem Alfred (see Ainger’s Letters of Lamb, i, 138). The omission of such a passage was only to be expected; Cottle was not going to act as his own hangman. Henry Nelson Coleridge, Thomas Noon Talfourd, and even Canon Ainger, and indeed nearly all editors of letters published during the first half of the nineteenth century, took the liberty to discriminate what should be communicated to the public in volumes such as Cottle’s.
Vol. I, p. 50.—The Summer of 1795 should be “the Autumn of 1794;” see Thomas Poole and his Friends, I, 95.
Vol. I, p. 62.—Letter 24 is placed by Cottle in the spring of 1796, but being dated from Stowey, it is possible that this letter may belong to 1797. The revision of the Religious Musings mentioned in the letter would suit 1797 as well as 1796, for the text of that poem differed very widely from that of the First Edition.
Vol. I, p. 97.—The numbered poems in Letter 42, are:
Effusion27. The Rose, “As late each flower that sweetest blows.”
28. The Kiss, “One kiss, dear Maid! I said, and sigh’d.”
Sonnets,45. To Bowles.
59. “Thou gentle look that didst my soul beguile.”
60. “Pale Roamer thro’ the night, thou poor Forlorn!”
61. “Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled.”
Sonnets,64. “Thou bleedest my poor Heart! and thy distress.”
65. To Schiller.
66. Brockley Coombe.
Vol. I, p. 292, Letter 117. Books from Wordsworth’s Library.—“Perhaps one of the most interesting books in the whole selection is Sir T. Browne’s Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, the folio edition of 1658, which contains a long letter to Sara Hutchinson, relative principally to many curious passages in the work, also several MS. marginal notes and corrections, all in the handwriting of S. T. Coleridge, and autographs of Charles Lamb and Mary Wordsworth. The copy of Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici, 1669, contains copious marginal and other MS. annotations by Coleridge, and has this inscription inside the cover, ‘Sara Hutchinson from S. T. C.’”—Athenæum, No. 3579, May 30, 1896.
Vol. II, p. 262, Contemplative melancholy.—The phrase is a variation of “speculative gloom,” which Coleridge used in his original prospectus of the Friend, objected to by Francis Jeffrey (see Letters, ii, 536, note), and afterwards changed into “Dejection of Mind” in the printed Prospectus (see Letter 143, vol. ii, p. 51). The phrase “speculative gloom” was derived from Warton’s Ode for the New Year 1786 (which Coleridge took as his model for his own Ode to the Departing Year):
“Hence then, each vain complaint, away, Each captious doubt, and cautious fear! Nor blast the new-born year, That anxious waits the Spring’s slow-shooting ray: Nor deem that Albion’s honours cease to bloom. With candid glance, th’ impartial Muse, Invoked on this auspicious morn, The present scans, the distant scene pursues, And breaks Opinion’s speculative gloom: Interpreter of ages yet unborn, Full right she spells the characters of Fate, That Albion still shall keep her wonted state! Still in eternal glory shine, Of Victory the sea-beat shrine; The source of every splendid art, Of old, of future worlds the universal mart.”
Vol. II, p. 294. The Objective and the Subjective in Art.—Goethe and Schiller always insisted upon the Objective as the highest form of art; many passages occur in their letters regarding the distinction. Schiller says, 28th November 1796: “As regards Wallenstein, it is at present progressing very slowly, as I am chiefly occupied with the raw material, which is not yet quite collected; but I still feel equal to it, and I have obtained many a clear and definite idea in regard to its form. What I wish and ought to do, and what I have to do, has now become pretty clear to me; it now merely depends upon accomplishing what I wish and what I ought to do by using what I have in hand before me. As regards the spirit in which I am working, you will probably be satisfied with what I have done. I shall have no difficulty in keeping my subject outside of myself, and in only giving the object.”—Bohn Library Translation, Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, i, 263–4.
Vol. II, p. 297.—Poems of Coleridge differing in their Texts in the Editions of 1829 and 1834:
The Raven (two lines).
Time Real and Imaginary (one word).
Songs of the Pixies.
Lines on an Autumnal Evening (one word).
Lines written at the King’s Arms, Ross.
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (11 lines).
Sonnet on Kosciusko (one line).
Sonnet, “Pale roamer through the night.”
Brockley Coombe.
Religious Musings (a few words).
Destiny of Nations (differs slightly).
Christabel (slightly).
Ode to the Departing Year (sixth line).
The Devil’s Thoughts.
To the Rev. George Coleridge (one word).
The Nightingale (one word).
Lines written at Elbingerode (one word).
A Tombless Epitaph (one word).
To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the author (one word).
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
Dejection, an Ode.
Lines on Berengarius.
France, an Ode.