[6] _The Pantheon._ By Andrew Tooke. Revised, etc., for the use of schools. London: 1791.
"Tooke was a prodigious favourite with us (at Christ's Hospital). I see before me, as vividly now as ever, his Mars and Apollo, his Venus and Aurora--the Mars coming on furiously in his car; Apollo, with his radiant head, in the midst of shades and fountains; Aurora with hers, a golden dawn; and Venus, very handsome, we thought, and not looking too modest in 'a slight cymar.'" _Autobiography of Leigh Hunt_, p. 75.
[8] George Rose, 1744-1818, statesman and political writer. He had recently brought in a bill which "authorised the sending to all the Parish Overseers in the country a paper of questions on the condition of the poor." Poole, at the instance of John Rickman, secretary to Speaker Abbot, was at this time engaged at Westminster in drawing up an abstract of the various returns which had been made in accordance with Sir George Rose's bill. See Letter from T. Poole to T. Wedgwood, dated September 14, 1803. Cottle's _Reminiscences_, pp. 477, 478; _Thomas Poole and his Friends_, ii. 107-114.
[9] See Letter to Southey of February 20, 1804. Letter CXLIX.
[10] John Dalton, 1766-1844, chemist and meteorologist. He published his researches on the atomic theory, which he had begun in 1803, in his _New System of Chemical Philosophy_, in 1808. _Biographical Dictionary._
[11] His old fellow-student at Göttingen.
"O for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave."
"In the Pass of Killicranky." Wordsworth's _Poetical Works_, 1889, p. 201.
[13] John Tobin the dramatist (or possibly his brother James), with whom Coleridge spent the last weeks of his stay in London, before he left for Portsmouth on the 27th of March, on his way to Malta.
[14] The misspelling, which was intentional, was an intimation to Lamb that the letter was not to be opened.
[15] A retired carrier, the owner of Greta Hall, who occupied "the smaller of the two houses inter-connected under one roof." He was godfather to Hartley Coleridge, and left him a legacy of fifty pounds. Mrs. Wilson, the "Wilsy" of Hartley's childhood, was Jackson's housekeeper. _Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge_, 1873, i. 13.