I both wish and advise you to draw up your '_Reminiscences_', I advise you for your own sake, as a valuable memorial, and wish it for my own, that that part of my life might be faithfully reported by the person who knows it best...." "You have enough to tell which is harmless, as well as interesting, and not harmless only, but instructive, and that ought to be told, _and which only you can tell._" It may be proper to notice that the title here adopted, of "REMINISCENCES" is to be understood as a general, rather than as a strictly applicable phrase, since the present miscellaneous work is founded on letters, and various memoranda, that for the most part, have lain in a dormant state for many years, and which were preserved as mementos of past scenes, personally interesting, but without, in the first instance, the least reference to ultimate publication. I cannot withhold a final remark, with which my own mind is greatly affected; from revolving on a most unexpected, as it is a singular fact,--that these brief memorials of Mr. Coleridge, and Mr. Southey, should be written by the _same individual_ who, more than _half a century_ before, contributed his humble efforts to assist, and encourage them, in their first entrance on a literary life. The whole of the events thus recorded, appear through the dim vista of memory, already with the scenes before the flood! while all the busy, the aspiring, and the intellectual spirits here noticed, and once so well known, have been hurried off our mortal stage!--Robert Lovell!--George Burnet!--Charles Lloyd!--George Catcott!--Dr. Beddoes!--Charles Danvers!--Amos Cottle!--William Gilbert!--John Morgan!--Ann Yearsley!--Sir H. Davy!--Hannah More!--Robert Hall!--Samuel Taylor Coleridge!--Charles Lamb!--Thomas Poole!--Josiah Wade!--Robert Southey!--and John Foster!--confirming, with fresh emphasis, "What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!" Bristol, April 20, 1847. J. C. * * * * * CONTENTS. Pantisocracy and Robert Lovell Mr. Southey and Mr. Burnet arrive in Bristol Mr. Coleridge arrives in Bristol Fears for the Pantisocritans dissipated A London bookseller offers Mr. Coleridge six guineas for the copyright of his Poems Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Southey each sells his 1st volume of Poems, for thirty guineas Mr. Southey sells his Joan of Arc for fifty guineas Mr. Coleridge begins his lectures in Bristol Specimen of Mr. C.'s lecture Liberty's letter to Famine Mr. C.'s political lectures, &c. Death of Robert Lovell Mr. Southey's course of historical lectures Mr. Coleridge disappoints his audience Excursion to Tintern Abbey Dissension between Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Southey Incidents connected with Mr. Coleridge's volume of Poems Mr. Coleridge married to Miss Sarah Fricker Household articles required