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 COLERIDGE'S LECTURES My dear Robinson,

The Coachmakers' Hall having not Literary or philosophical Redolence, or rather smelling somewhat unsavory to the nases intellectuales of all my wealthy acquaintance, partly from past political sporting clubs and partly from th' present assignment to Hops and the instruction of grown gentlemen in Dancing, I have at length procured another Room every way answering my purposes—a spacious handsome room with an academical staircase and the Lecture room itself fitted up in a very grave authentic poetice-phi[losophical] Style, with the Busts of Newton, Milton, Sha[kespeare,] Pope and Locke behind the Lecturer's Cathedra. I have likewise lowered the prices from 3 and 4 to 2 and 3 guineas. I am sure you will say what you can for me among your Friends but what I more particularly wish you to do is to see it advertised in the Times, if by favor it can be done so as to advertise only as many lines as will not exceed the price of an ordinary advertisement, and to let the rest appear as part of the Paper itself. I certainly should do my best to repay it by sending occasional articles to the Times, prose or verse. Perhaps you may have it in your power to conciliate Mr. Walter's good will towards me in this Business. Likewise do you know any member of the Russell Institution to whom you cd entrust a few Prospectuses to be placed in their Library or Chatting Room? I have left two or three at the Westminster Library.—At present my Dormitory at least is at Mr. Morgan's, Portland Place, Hammersmith.

I am very anxious to see Schlegel's Werke before the Lectures commence.

May God bless you, my dear Sir, and Your sincere Friend, S. T. Coleridge. 96