Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Highgate, to William Godwin, 1818 December 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Referring to an enclosure and saying "[y]ou both know and can feel with my circumstances;" making a pun with the initials of his name; adding "I cannot read a page of the Examiner without a temptation to become a Jure Divino Legitimist - or of the Edingburgh Review, without an inkling after Toryism - or of the Quarterly Review (Southey's Articles by no means excepted) without downright whispers of the Devil to be a Rebel;" writing "Nay, when Wordsworth was in town, and asserted that the vice of the present Age was that men of high Rank paid too great attention to men of Genius - that no Painter at Court was neglected but from his own defects - that the Aristocracy erred by excess of condescension from their high Rank, in the present day, &c - I sate in a brown meditation on Tempus edax rerum - Tempora mutantur, nos et - & other scraps of the Latin Grammar;" adding "Take or send as many as you like, who cannot well afford to attend the Lectures at the cost of any thing but their Time and Patience;" sending his kind remembrances to Mary Jane Godwin.