I pray you, therefore, send me immediately all my books and papers with such of my linen as may be clean, in my box, by the _errand cart_, directed--"Mr. Coleridge, Brown's Coffee House, Mitre Court, Fleet Street." A couple of nails and a rope will sufficiently secure the box.
Dear, dear Mary! Dearest Charlotte! I entreat you to believe me, that if at any time my manner toward you has appeared unlike myself, this has arisen wholly either from a sense of self-dissatisfaction or from apprehension of having given you offence; for at no time and on no occasion did I ever see or imagine anything in your behaviour which did not awaken the purest and most affectionate esteem, and (if I do not grossly deceive myself) the sincerest gratitude. Indeed, indeed, my affection is both deep and strong toward you, and such too that I am proud of it.
"And looking towards the Heaven that bends above you, Full oft I bless the lot that made me love you!"
Again and again and for ever may God bless you, and love you.
J. J. MORGAN, Esq., No. 7, Portland Place, Hammersmith.
MY DEAR GODWIN,--I receive twice the pleasure from my recovery that it would have otherwise afforded, as it enables me to accept your kind invitation, which in this instance I might with perfect propriety and manliness thank you for, as an honour done to me. To sit at the same table with Grattan, who would not think it a memorable honour, a red letter day in the almanac of his life? No one certainly who is in any degree worthy of it. Rather than not be in the same room, I could be well content to wait at the table at which I was not permitted to sit, and this not merely for Grattan's undoubted great talents, and still less from any entire accordance with his political opinions, but because his great talents are the tools and vehicles of his genius, and all his speeches are attested by that constant accompaniment of true genius, a certain moral bearing, a moral dignity. His love of liberty has no snatch of the mob in it.
Assure Mrs. Godwin of my anxious wishes respecting her health. The scholar Salernitanus[65] says:--
"Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant Hæc tria: mens hilaris, requies, moderata diæta."
The regulated diet she already has, and now she must contrive to call in the two other doctors. God bless you.