Now Mr. Green has offered to contribute from 30_l._ to 40_l._ yearly, for three or four years; my young friend and pupil, the son of one of my dearest old friends, 50_l._; and I think that from 10_l._ to 20_l._ I could rely upon from another. The sum required would be about 200_l._, to be repaid, of course, should the disposal or sale, and as far as the disposal and sale of my writings produced the means. I have thus placed before you at large, wanderingly as well as diffusely, the statement which I am inclined to send in a compressed form to a few of those of whose kind dispositions towards me I have received assurances,—and to their interest and influence I must leave it—anxious, however, before I do this, to learn from you your very, very inmost feeling and judgment as to the previous questions. Am I entitled, have I earned _a right_ to do this? Can I do it without moral degradation? and, lastly, can it be done without loss of character in the eyes of my acquaintance, and of my friends' acquaintance, who may have been informed of the circumstances? That, if attempted at all, it will be attempted in such a way, and that such persons only will be spoken to, as will not expose me to indelicate rebuffs to be afterward matter of gossip, I know those to whom I shall entrust the statement, too well to be much alarmed about. Pray let me either see or hear from you as soon as possible; for, indeed and indeed, it is no inconsiderable accession to the pleasure I anticipate from disembarrassment, that _you_ would have to contemplate in a more gracious form, and in a more ebullient play of the inward fountain, the mind and manners of, My dear friend, Your obliged and very affectionate friend, S. T. COLERIDGE. It has always been a matter of wonder to us that the _Biographia Literaria_ here mentioned in the foot note has never been republished in America. It is, perhaps, the most deeply interesting of the prose writings of Coleridge, and affords a clearer view into his mental constitution than any other of his works. Why cannot some of our publishers undertake it? They would be rendering an important service to the cause of psychological science in America, by introducing a work of great scope and power in itself, and well calculated to do away with the generally received impression here entertained of the _mysticism_ of the writer. COLTON'S NEW WORK. _Thoughts on the Religious State of the Country; with Reasons for preferring Episcopacy. By Rev. Calvin Colton. New York: Harper & Brothers._