GENEROUS AID TO SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 3?? 



will be necessary to grind some 1332 in a Dish, and face this with 



some Joseph may set some more grinders to 



work a number of the Cameos, such as the Statues. 



Diomeds The new Boys as soon as may be. Fine heads, 



not relief, and so down to the small Gems, as soon 



as they can be made. I have wrote to Jackey to weigh some more 

 1332 for Joseph; but you may use any of your Nos. up that you 

 find good, and some that are not good in the Bisket will be better 

 in the white oven, such as 1207, 1194, 1225; but 1194 will be 

 good very high in the biskett oven 1308, 1309. 



" Jackey will mix some 1194 & 1205, both of which will be 

 very good at the top of the Bisket oven." 



Mr. Thomas Wedgwood, who suffered from constant ill 

 health, took no part in the management of the business. 

 He was a man of refined tastes, devoted, so far as health 

 permitted, to scientific pursuits, and was widely and deeply 

 respected. To him and to his brother Josiah, conjointly, 

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge was indebted for that substantial 

 assistance which proved the turning-point of Ms life, and 

 enabled him to devote his talents to literature. The aid 

 thus liberally and disinterestedly given by the Wedgwoods 

 is so nicely spoken of by Mr. Coleridge's biographer, Cottle, 

 that I cannot forbear quoting the following passages from 

 his interesting narrative. Mr. Cottle says : 



"Mr. Coleridge, up to this day, February 18th, 1798, held, 

 though laxly, the doctrines of Socinus. On the Rev. Mr. Eowe, of 

 Shrewsbury, the Socinian minister, coming to settle in Bristol, 

 Mr. Coleridge was strongly recommended by his friends of that 

 persuasion to offer himself as Mr. R's successor; and he accordingly 

 went on probation to Shrewsbury. 



" It is proper here to mention, in order that this subject may be 

 the better understood, that Mr. Poole, a little before the above 

 period, had introduced Mr. Coleridge to Mr. Thomas and Mr. Josiah 

 Wedgwood. These gentlemen formed a high estimation of Mr. C's 

 talents, and felt a deep interest in his welfare. At the time Mr. 

 Coleridge was considering whether or not he should persist in offer- 

 ing himself to the Shrewsbury congregation, and so finally to settle 

 down (provided his sentiments remained unaltered) into a Socinian 

 minister, the Messrs. Wedgwoods, having heard of the circumstance, 



