Letter from the Earl of Crewe, London, to William Angus Knight, 1907 December 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

Concerning a staging of a Coleridge reading; thanking him for his kind words on "...my little book of verses : it is agreeable to a writer, the humble as well as the famous, to hear that he is not entirely forgotten by those whose opinion is worth having. As regards the Coleridge question, I should have supposed that the theatre scheme might be the more lucrative, at any rate for a single performance. Lord Lytton will be as well able as anybody to secure the use of a drawing room, if that alternative is preferred, though it is not always easy to find a hostess of one of the few houses large enough to make the enterprise pay who will entertain a general company of this kind. We have no room large enough in our old house, and in any case the idea would be impossible this year, as Lady Crewe has to go to St. Moritz at once for the remainder of the winter. In your place I should certainly try for the theatre, welcome change, you and Mr. Coleridge's readings would be."