By my brother Henrys means I have found how the impediment between me & your cyder may be removed, if you will direct it for me, to the care of George Sealy Esq^r

Liverpool, & ship it for that place, – letting me know by what vessel it is sent, he will look after it there, & forward it to Keswick, & then we will all drink your health in the juice of the apple. It will need a case to protect it on the way from a gimlet.

There is little chance of any circumstance drawing me from this country to reside in the vicinity of London – at least I can forsee none. The question whether or not the Quarterly Review should do so has been fairly considered & decided in consequence of Giffords dangerous illness. He had written to me soon after you left us, saying that he could not long continue to conduct the Review & that he knew not where to look for a successor. He was not ill at the time; & therefore my consideration of the matter was not hastily but deliberately made. If I had chosen to propose myself, the office must have been mine, of course. The objections to it were, that the increased expenditure which I must incur near London, would fully consume any advantage increase of income which I should have obtained; & therefore the time consumed in the mere management of the journal, would have been a dead loss. This time would be unpleasantly as well as unprofitably spent, in corresponding upon the mere business of the review, examining communications, & either correcting them myself when there was any thing erroneous, imprudent, or inconsistent with those coherent opinions which the journal should have maintained under my care, – in persuading the respective writers to amend & alter according to that standard. Lastly it seemed that there was nothing in the change of which could recompense me for the sacrifice which it needs would be to quit a country in which I take so much delight, & of which all my family are as fond as myself: & there was this weightier consideration that if I gave up the quantity of time which the management of such a journal requires, it would take away all reasonable hope of my compleating the various great works

for which I have been so long making preparations

Copplestone had proposed Wheatley of Oriel,

whom Gifford considered quite out of the question. Mitchell

the translator of Aristophanes, & author of many good papers in the Review concerning the Greeks, was talked of, & so was a M^r Gregson,

who is a friend of Cannings & an able man: but they were not thought of. Both Gifford & Murray were compleatly at a loss where to look, for it is a situation of great confidence, & requiring great discretion, as well as the necessary talents & attainments. It would be very difficult to find a person so qualified as J.C. & I trust that I have done good service to the public as well as to the publisher & to him, in putting the matter in its present train

Murray has long delayed my first volume.

He means to publish it early next month, & is instructed to send a copy to Crediton as soon as it appears.

And now for domestic affairs in what little room is left. M^rs Coleridge & her daughter have begun their travels, & are at this time performing a visit at Derby.

– We are all well, thank God, – a frightful alarm which occurred a week ago concerning Cuthbert, having mercifully, past away. He had an attack of croup in the night, happily of the spurious kind,

– but it is always a frightful & most alarming sound. – Young Henry is perfectly recovered from his horrible accident,

& no otherwise the worse for it, that than he has a hole nearly three inches long in his forehead. This is truly a marvellous recovery – I keep up the course of exercise which I began with you, walking about six miles every day when the weather is not absolutely too bad as it has been this day. While you were here I always walked in pain;

but it brought my system into tone; & this change was just effected, when we parted. The good effect has continued ever since, & I shall not relax throughout the winter in my efforts to maintain it. – Tell me now how you are going on & my unseen friends of your household, whom I certainly intend to see in the spring. Remember me to them all at present, – take yourself the kindest remembrances from all here, & believe me