Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Highgate, to Joseph Henry Green, 1832 July 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking what he thinks of the "following 'Premonitory'" (referring to the poem that appears at the end of this letter); jocularly suggesting several ways of making it public ("Should I send it to the Board of Health? or to Lord Melborne?"); adding that, though he thinks there should be a honorarium for such contributions, he will make a present of it to "a Government, of whom and of whose measures I am, you know, so glowing an admirer that it may be fairly questioned whether the Devil himself can in this respect outrival me"; saying that he is jealous of "the Glory of this new-imported Nabob, from the Indian Jungles [referring to a recent epidemic of Asiatic cholera], his Serene Blueness, Prince of the Air -- lest he should have the presumption [...] to set himself up in Hell against Lords Grey, Durham, & the Reform-Bill. Fool! as if filling the Church-yard could be reckoned an equal service with stripping and emptying the Church!"; asking Green if he would bring on Sunday his "two concluding Lectures of the Zoological Course, on the Characteristics of Man. -- I wish to look over again the passage on the Federative Character of the N.W. Branch of the Japetic Race"; giving the heading of the poem as follows: "Address premonitory to the Sovereign People: or the Cholera cured beforehand, promulgated gratis for the use of the Useful Classes, specially of those resident in St Giles's, Bethnal Green, Saffron Hill, &c -- by their Majesties', i.e. the People's, loyal Subject" and signing it "Demophilus Mudlarkiades"; including a poem of thirty-six lines beginning "To escape Belly-ache / Eat no plums nor plum-cake!" and ending with "Hurra! 3 times 3 thrice repeated. -- Hurra!"