Gentlemen, night and day." See your favourite author — next to
Coleridge). . . . Ever yours, Alfrbd AmosB.
To THE Same.
' Tullibbi;ton, Bankvoot,
'Perth, Sunday, Sept. 9, 1888.
' ... In one of the letters of Wordsworth, Lamb tells him he
is quite wrong to wish that a definite profession, etc, had been
assigned to the venerable mariner. How curiously narrow and
limited Wordsworth was in his estimate of other men's work !
A more crude and incomplete account of the merits and defects
of Coleridge's poem can hardly be imagined ! By the way read
(if you have not seen it) Sidney Colvin's article on some new
Keats letters in the August MacnUllan. There is one most in-
teresting bit, in which Keats tells of meeting Coleridge and Green
in one of the Highgate Lanes.
' Coleridge's own version of the same interview occurs in the
Tabk Talk, as you will remember. . . .'

To Mrs. Smtth, at Christmas time, in his first year at Bristol.
'Prospect House,
' CuFTON Hill, Bristol, CkriHmas 1888.
' My dear Friend, — The above address will strike you as some-
what unfamiliar, and will at the same time prepare you for an
entirely different style of composition from that frivolous one to
which you have been for so many years accustomed at this season.
