489. Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge [fragment], 15 February 1800*
[The following summary is provided by Ernest Hartley Coleridge: ‘In a letter from Southey to Coleridge, dated February 15, 1800 (unpublished), he proposes the establishment of a Magazine with signed articles. But a “History of the Levelling Principle,” which Coleridge had suggested as a joint work, he would only publish anonymously.’]1
Notes
MS: MS untraced; text is taken from
Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), Letters of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, 2 vols (London,
1895)
Previously published: This letter exists only
in a summary provided in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.),
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2
vols (London, 1895), I, p. 328 n.1. Back
1. Southey’s letter was probably a reply to Coleridge’s of 12 February 1800 (E.L. Griggs (ed.), The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 6 vols (1956–1971), I, pp. 569–571). Back