¹ Essays on His Own Times, Forming a Second Series of The Friend (London, 1850), 3 vols.

² This article is a summary of an M.A. thesis submitted to Duke University in 1953. Dr. David V. Erdman, University of Minnesota, suggested the topic and directed the research.

³ Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs (London, 1932), i, 87. Coleridge may have referred here to the brief, gossipy, and often satirical paragraphs which appear below the editorials in the Post at that time. Lamb wrote paragraphs of that type for the Post for several years.

⁴ Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Boston and New York, 1895), i, 313 (hereafter cited as Letters).

⁵ Daniel Stuart, letter to ed., Gentleman's Magazine, ix (May 1838), 486-487.

⁶ Letters, i, 320. Southey began contributing verse to the Post early in 1798.

⁷ R. B. Litchfield, Tom Wedgwood, The First Photographer (London, 1903), pp. 75-76.

⁸ Letters, i, 337; Unpub. Letters, i, 157.

⁹ Letters from the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, to Daniel Stuart (London, 1889), pp. 24-25.

¹⁰ Daniel Stuart wrote: “Throughout the last year [Stuart left the Post in Aug. 1803], during my most rapid success, Coleridge did not, I believe, write a line for me.” Quoted from a letter written by Stuart, in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, 2nd ed., prepared in part by H. N. Coleridge; completed and published by his widow (London, 1847), ii, 395.

¹¹ Letters, i, 423.

¹² Unpub. Letters, i, 283.