Letter from Lord Coleridge, London, to William Angus Knight, 1888 January 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Not granting him permission to publish only a portion of what he has written; saying "I hope you will not think me very unaccommodating or incorrigibly vain if I say that I really cannot consent to what you propose - The paper...is a whole & has been put together to be read as a whole - Any interest there may be in it would be I think entirely destroyed if it is split up & scattered about a book written by another man. If therefore you think it worth printing at all I must ask you to print it as I have written it. If you do not like this which is very possible please to return to me for I have no other copy & I will get it printed in Macmillan or elsewhere as I have written it. Then it will be common property & you can quote as much or as little of it as you like & put it in any connection you please. But I wish it to appear in the first instance as I wrote it - I need not say you are very welcome to use any portion of it after it has been printed for Wordsworth's Life or indeed anything you may be writing if you think it worth using; " adding, in a postscript, "If you look at Stanley's Life of Arnold or Mr. Mackintosh's Life of Sir James you will see letters like mine (by great men I admit) treated as I wish mine treated. I send you a little paper of mine about another very old friend which may perhaps amuse you for five minutes."