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Huntington Library, HM 12300 (letter); British Library, Add MS 30928 (list of books and address leaf). Not previously published.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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On the other leaf you will find a tolerably long selection from Gutchs
Catalogue. – He is a bad vamper, – two of the books in the last importation were literally glued together, & could not be seperated
without tearing off half the leather from one cover; & he is an ugly binder, – if, as I suppose, Estes Journeyother tooling of any kind, – & a black letter S at the
bottom, – one from his printing office will answer as well as if a tool were cut for the purpose. – I believe Edith will commission her sister
We were a good deal disappointed by your last letter. Tom is
particularly because – he has no hope of seeing you next summer. Rickman has
lately spent eight days with me, we xx made some good marches, & he departed well pleased with the country, &
satisfied that I had done well in chusing it for my place of abode.
I got this Catalogue only last night, – so that I lose no time in sending off my order. From the nature of the books, it is most likely that it will not be too late. The Catalogue does great credit to Gutch, & I forgive him his abuse of the book-stalls, – as I can no longer profit by them myself, & ought therefore to be thankful to him, – because I can only get at their treasures thro a forestaller.
Heaven knows what is become of Kehama!
Coleridge is in London, – gone professedly to be
cured of taking opium & drinking spirits by Carlisle, – really because he was tired of being here, & wanted to do both more at his ease elsewhere. I have a dismal letter about
him from Carlisle. The case is utterly hopeless – that it the moral case: for as for his body, it is yet sound if he would let it be so, – but the will is so thoroughly & radically
diseased, that in his case <instance> there is an actual fall of man, from which little short of a miraculous
interposition can redeem him.
Edith desires to be kindly remembered. I am going on well, & up to my eyes in business