Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1825-05-17

Letter: to [J.A. Hessey], 1785-1870

ALS. Discusses the progress of his "Six Disquisitions": "I shall . . . immediately set to work with the one yet to be written Disquisition. I quite agree with you as to the Untakingness of the Title - & will think of some other, and am inclined to think, that I shall add a 7th." Also refers to his controversial comments on Hurwitz's Hebrew Tales: "I must take the consequence of my own zeal for a most worthy friend - not that I have said a syllable more than I really think - not that I could not, "on my bible oath," as the folks say, repeat every word respecting the Hebrew Tales - but because I now see that it would have [been] more expedient . . . to have reserved my critique for a more appropriate time & place."