Autograph letter signed : Great Malvern, to William Angus Knight, 1891 February 26.

Concerning an error Miss Coleridge found in a footnote to Knight's "Life of Wordsworth" which she brought to his attention in her letter to Knight of January 24, 1891 (MA 9407.3); thanking him for his reply; saying "I am quite satisfied with your promise to rectify the error in a subsequent edition, or on any other suitable occasion that may present itself. As you say, it is not usual for an author to write to the papers expressly to call attention to an accidental oversight in his own book - especially so long after its publication. Singularly enough - since I wrote to you Cottle's 'Early Recollections', in two volumes, has turned up, among my sister-in-law's books, those which my brother left to her from [illegible] those of my father's library. It certainly justifies Mr. Wordsworth's & Mr. Southey's animadversions; it is written (much of it, at least) in an absurd inflated style, & is full of just the sort of 'facts' that a gossip-loving public delights in! The only point that does not seem to agree with Mr. W.'s letter is that the book is dated 1837, a year later than the date of that letter; but it must be possible to account for the discrepancy in some way. Perhaps it was sent by Cottle privately to Southey, (at whose house W. saw it) before it was published. Or the nominal date may have [been] some months later than the time when it really appeared."