About 8 days before you told me of R.’s interview with the Premier, I, at the desire of Badams, wrote a letter to him (Badams) in the most moving terms setting forth the age, infirmities &c. of Coleridge.  This letter was convey’d to [by] B. to his friend Mr. Ellice of the Treasury, Brother in Law to Lord Grey, who immediately pass’d it on [to] Lord Grey, who assured him of immediate relief by a grant on the King’s Bounty, which news E. communicated to B. with a desire to confer with me on the subject, on which I went up to THE Treasury (yesterday fortnight) and was received by the Great Man with the utmost cordiality, (shook hands with me coming and going) a fine hearty Gentleman, and, as seeming willing to relieve any anxiety from me, promised me an answer thro’ Badams in 2 or 3 days at furthest.  Meantime Gilman’s extraordinary insolent letter comes out in the Times!  As to my acquiescing in this strange step, I told Mr. Ellice (who expressly said that the thing was renewable three-yearly) that I consider’d such a grant as almost equivalent to the lost pension, as from C.’s appearance and the representations of the Gilmans, I scarce could think C.’s life worth 2 years’ purchase.  I did not know that the Chancellor had been previously applied to.  Well, after seeing Ellice I wrote in the most urgent manner to the Gilmans, insisting on an immediate letter of acknowledgment from Coleridge, or them in his name to Badams, who not knowing C. had come forward so disinterestedly amidst his complicated illnesses and embarrassments, to use up an interest, which he may so well need, in favor of a stranger; and from that day not a letter has B. or even myself, received from Highgate, unless that publish’d one in the Times is meant as a general answer to all the friends who have stirr’d to do C. service!  Poor C. is not to blame, for he is in leading strings.—­I particularly wish you would read this part of my note to Mr. Rogers.  Now for home matters—­Our next 2 Sundays will be choked up with all the Sugdens.  The third will be free, when we hope you will show your sister the way to Enfield and leave her with us for a few days.  In the mean while, could you not run down some week day (afternoon, say) and sleep at the Horse Shoe?  I want to have my 2d vol.  Elias bound Specimen fashion, and to consult you about ’em.  Kenney has just assured me, that he has just touch’d L100 from the theatre; you are a damn’d fool if you don’t exact your Tythe of him, and with that assurance I rest

Your Brother fool C.L.

[Collier’s book would be his History of English Dramatic Poetry, 1831.  Nichols’s Illustrations had been begun by John Nichols, and six volumes were published between 1817 and 1831.  It was completed in two more volumes by his son, John Bowyer Nichols, in 1848 and 1858.

“H.”—­Leigh Hunt.  We do not know what W.W., presumably Wordsworth, had to say of him; but this is how Hunt had referred to Moxon’s publications and Lamb’s Satan in Search of a Wife in The Tatler for June 4, 1831, the occasion being a review of “Selections from Wordsworth” for schools:—­