[56] Compare letter from Southey to J. N. White dated April 21, 1809. "A ridiculous disorder called the Mumps has nearly gone through the house, and visited me on its way--a thing which puts one more out of humour than out of health; but my neck has now regained its elasticity, and I have left off the extra swathings which yesterday buried my chin, after the fashion of fops a few years ago." _Selections from the Letters of R. Southey_, ii, 135, 136.
[57] The Parliamentary investigation of the charges and allegations with regard to the military patronage of the Duke of York.
[58] Bertha Southey, afterwards Mrs. Herbert Hill, was born March 27, 1809.
[59] "The Appendix (to the pamphlet _On the Convention of Cintra_), a portion of the work which Mr. Wordsworth regarded as executed in a masterly manner, was drawn up by Mr. De Quincey, who revised the proofs of the whole." _Memoirs of Wordsworth_, i. 384.
[60] In Southey's copy of the reprint of the stamped sheets of _The Friend_ the passage runs thus: "However this may be, the Understanding or regulative faculty is manifestly distinct from Life and Sensation, its _function_ being to take up the _passive affections_ of the sense into distinct Thoughts and Judgements, according to its own essential forms. These forms, however," etc. _The Friend_, No. 5, Thursday, September 14, 1809, p. 79, _n._
[61] For extracts from Poole's narrative of John Walford, see _Thomas Poole and his Friends_, ii. 235-237. Wordsworth endeavoured to put the narrative into verse, but was dissatisfied with the result. His lines have never been published.
[62] H. N. Coleridge included these lines, as they appear in a note-book, among the _Omniana_ of 1809-1816. They are headed incorrectly, "Inscription on a Clock in Cheapside." The MS. is not very legible, but there can be no doubt that Coleridge wrote, "On a clock in a market place (proposed)." _Table Talk_, etc., 1884, p. 401; _Poetical Works_, p. 181.
[63] The story of Maria Eleanora Schöning appeared in No. 13 of _The Friend_, Thursday, November 16, 1809, pp. 194-208. It was reprinted as the "Second Landing Place" in the revised edition of _The Friend_, published in 1818. The somewhat laboured description of the heroine's voice, which displeased Southey, and the beautiful illustration of the "withered leaf" were allowed to remain unaltered, and appear in every edition. Coleridge's _Works_, 1853, ii. 312-326.