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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> And What For?’ This is after all a question which may be fairly enough addressed to any one who is proposing to add to that ‘surfeit of too much through which the readers of the present day have to find their way; but surely if it can be replied that the new book will bring fresh contributions to a department of literature that is at once interesting and incomplete the answer is one that cannot but be accepted as sufficient. It is from this point of view that I venture to hope that this record of Thomas Poole and his Friends may meet with a welcome in more than one quarter as throwing not a little additional light on an important cpoch in the moral and intellectual life of England and on a group of men who in no small degree helped to make it so. By the kindness of Mr. Ernest H. Coleridge an entire series of letters addressed by Thomas Poole to S.T. Coleridge has been placed in my hands and as regards the other side of the correspondence I have been permitted to make use not only of the letters that have already appeared in the Biographical Supplement but also of many hitherto unprinted letters of S.T.C.’s. I should add that the letters I have published are merely those which illustrate the friendship that existed between Coleridge and Poole; they are but an instalment of that astonishing wealth of biographical material which we hope will be at no very distant day given to the world in Mr. E.H. Coleridge’s Life of his Grandfather. (LL)