Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Keswick, to Robert Southey, 1801 May 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

STC: Apologizing for having written such a gloomy letter; saying that since he wrote, he has had "another & more severe fit of Illness -- which has left me weak, very weak -- but with so calm a mind, that I am determined to believe, that this Fit was bonâ fide the last"; saying that he doesn't know if he will be able to spend the next winter in England; inviting Southey and his family to spend as much of the summer and autumn as possible with them, living at Greta Hall: "We have ample Room -- Room enough & more than enough -- and I am willing to believe, that the blessed Dreams, we dreamt some 6 years ago may be auguries of something really noble which we may yet perform together"; adding that they are waiting impatiently for a letter announcing his arrival; sending love to Edith; calling Derwent "the Boast of the County" and saying "the little River-God is as beautiful as if he had been the Child of Venus Anaduomene previously to her Emersion"; writing that they are worried about Hartley's health, though he is well at the moment: "if I were to lose him, I am afraid, it would exceedingly deaden my affection for any other children I may have"; including twenty-two lines of verse later published as the conclusion to Part II of "Christabel" and calling it a "very metaphysical account of Fathers calling their children rogues, rascals, & little varlets"; adding in a postscript "We shall have Pease, Beans, Turneps (with boiled Leg of mutton), cauliflowers, French Beans, &c &c -- endless! -- We have a noble Garden!"; SFC: saying that she and Wordsworth were angry at Coleridge for using the words "debt" and "want" because they thought it would shock Southey, "so we laught him into a sort of recantation -- but the thing is true"; listing to whom they owe money and what leeway they have for paying it over time; asserting that they will pay it all off as soon as Coleridge recovers: "he is a little hypochondriac that's all"; adding that a letter from Southey promising to come visit would help him mend; commenting on both her husband's and Hartley's illness, which she says seem to "prey upon his Father in his present weak State"; concluding the letter "I have just packed them off to Grasmere Dorothy Samuel and Hartley, Samuel wrote this while the Chaise was waiting -- (as usual -- the last minute) Hartley trying all the while to be gone -- Here's the coach! O dear I have no patience! I hate patience -- I will go -- I go by myself raving and screaming."