[74] A Dissenting minister of Bristol [Cottle].
[75] It is apprehended that this must be a mistake. I sent Mr. Coleridge five guineas for my Shakspeare ticket, and entertain no doubt but that some others did the same. But his remark may refer to some succeeding lectures, of which I have no distinct recollection [Cottle].
[76] A request of permission from Mr. Coleridge, to call on a few of his known friends, to see if we could not raise an annuity for him of one hundred a year, that he might pursue his literary objects without pecuniary distractions [Cottle].
[78] A worthy medical Friend of Bristol, who first in that city, interested himself in the establishment of infant schools [Cottle].
[79] [I include the whole of this correspondence with Cottle because fragments only have been printed in biographies of Coleridge.]
[81] This long sentence, between brackets, was struck out by Mr. Southey, in perusing the MS., through delicacy, as it referred to himself; but on the present occasion it is restored [Cottle]. [Cottle submitted the MS. of his _Early Recollections_ to Southey before publication.]
[82] ["And such a dreadful falling abroad."--_Early Recollections._]
[85] These four lines in the edition of Mr. C.'s _Poems_, published after his death, are oddly enough thrown into the _Monody on Chatterton_, and form the four opening lines. Many readers may concur with myself in thinking, that the former commencement was preferable; namely,--
"When faint and sad, o'er sorrow's desert wild, Slow journeys onward poor misfortune's child;" etc. [Cottle].
[The lines were first included in the _Monody_ in 1829.]
[86] [_The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution_, 1800.]
[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.]
[John James Morgan, the joint friend of Coleridge and Southey in their Pantisocratic days, was the son of a Bristol merchant, and as early as 1795 was acquainted with Coleridge (see Letter 16). It was to the house of Morgan that Coleridge repaired after his return from Malta, at the close of 1807, when he felt himself "ill, penniless, and worse than homeless" (Meteyard's _Group of Englishmen_, p. 325); and in the _Courier_ of 10th December 1807 appeared a poem, entitled the _Wanderer's Farewell_, addressed to Mrs. Morgan and Charlotte Brent, her sister. Morgan was at one time possessed of a fortune of £10,000 to £15,000 (Southey's _Life and Cor._, iv. 361); but adverse circumstances had come against him, and he and his family had removed to Hammersmith, London. After the quarrel with Wordsworth, Coleridge, as we have already seen, went to the Morgans, and remained off and on with them in the various places of their abode for the six years between 1810 and 1816. Not only were the Morgans kind hosts to Coleridge; Mrs. Morgan exercised a considerable command for good over him, and put compulsory measures in force when he was indulging in opium.