Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If the information appear new or valuable to you, and the letters themselves entertaining, etc., publish them; only do not sell the copyright of more than the ri... more »ght of two editions to the bookseller. He will not give more, or much more for the copyright of the whole. May God bless you! I am, and shall be as long as I exist, your truly grateful and affectionate friend, S. T. Coleridge. CLV. TO RORERT SOUTHEY. Sat . morning, 4 o'clock. Treasury, Malta. February 2, 1805. Dear Southey, — A Privateer is to leave this Port to-day at noon for Gibraltar, and, it chancing that an officer of rank takes his passage in her, Sir A. Ball trusts his dispatches with due precaution to this unusual mode of conveyance, and I must enclose a letter to you in the government parcel. I pray that the lead attached to it will not be ominous of its tardy voyage, much less of its making a diving tour whither the spirit of Shakespeare went, under the name of the Dreaming Clarence.1 Certain it is that I awoke about some half hour ago from so vivid a dream that the work of sleep had completely destroyed all sleepiness. I got up, went to my office-room, rekindled the wood-fire for the purpose of writing to you, having been so employed from morn till eve in writing public letters, some as long as memorials, from the hour that this opportunity was first announced to me, that for once in my life, at least, I can with strict truth affirm that I have had no time to write to you, if by time be understood the moments of life in which our powers are alive. I am well — at least, till within the last fortnight I was perfectly so, till the news of the sale of my blessed house played " the foe intestine " with me. But of that hereafter. 1 Shakespeare, Richard III., Act I. Scene 4. My dear Southey!J the...« less