Letter from Ernest Hartley Coleridge, London, to William Angus Knight, 1898 July 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

Concerning letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the relationship between Coleridge & Wordsworth and Wordsworth and Byron; acknowledging the "...list of letters from S.T.C. to the Beaumonts is interesting. I wish still more were dated. The copy of Youth & Age I will collate with other versions. The letter of S.T.C. to W.W. re Lady of the Lake I have a copy of. I wish that I had the courage to print it - not because I agree with it, but because it is good [illegible];" saying that with his work on Byron he has no time for anything else; adding, in a postscript, "I wish that later Correspondence between S.T.C. and W.W. could be found. Hale White greatly blame S.T.C. for the letter...in which Coleridge suggests that W.W.'s profession of the popular religion was in fact to be put over to motives of prudence. I don't seek to justify the letter which S.T. C. wrote but did not publish - but I imagine your other letters of the same series that as late as 1822 there was a serious & renewed quarrel or alienation probably over money matters - I have just been writing a note on Byron & Wordsworth - It is curious to note that W.W. rather resented Byron's nature-worship as a spurious or heretical assumption of the genuine faith. See his lines "Not in the Lucid Intervals of Life."