I am not ashamed of what I have written.
I desired Poole to send you all the papers antecedent to your own; I
think you will like the different analyses of the French constitution. I
have attended Mackintosh's lectures regularly; he was so kind as to send
me a ticket, and I have not failed to profit by it.
I remain, with grateful and most affectionate esteem,
Your faithful friend
S. T. COLERIDGE.
Josiah Wedgwood, Esq.[7]
[Footnote 1: Basil Montagu.]
[Footnote 2: John Pinney.]
[Footnote 3: Montagu.]
[Footnote 4: Wordsworth.]
[Footnote 5: Pinney.]
[Footnote 6: Montagu.]
[Footnote 7: Letters CVI-CIX follow 89.]
LETTER 90. TO POOLE
March, 1800.
If I had the least love of money I could make almost sure of L2,000 a
year, for Stuart has offered me half shares in the two papers, the
"Morning Post" and "Courier", if I would devote myself with him to them.
But I told him that I would not give up the country, and the lazy
reading of old folios for two thousand times two thousand pound--in
short that beyond L250 a year I considered money as a real evil.--
I think there are but two good ways of writing--one for immediate and
wide impression, though transitory--the other for permanence. Newspapers
are the first--the best one can do is the second. That middle class of
translating books is neither the one nor the other.
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