it on [to] Lord
Grey, who assured him of immediate relief by a grant on the King's
Bounty, which news E. communicated to B. with a desire to confer with me
on the subject, on which I went up to THE Treasury (yesterday fortnight)
and was received by the Great Man with the utmost cordiality, (shook
hands with me coming and going) a fine hearty Gentleman, and, as seeming
willing to relieve any anxiety from me, promised me an answer thro'
Badams in 2 or 3 days at furthest. Meantime Gilman's extraordinary
insolent letter comes out in the Times! As to _my_ acquiescing in this
strange step, I told Mr. Ellice (who expressly said that the thing was
renewable three-yearly) that I consider'd such a grant as almost
equivalent to the lost pension, as from C.'s appearance and the
representations of the Gilmans, I scarce could think C.'s life worth 2
years' purchase. I did not know that the Chancellor had been previously
applied to. Well, after seeing Ellice I wrote in the most urgent manner
to the Gilmans, insisting on an immediate letter of acknowledgment from
Coleridge, or them _in his name_ to Badams, who not knowing C. had come
forward so disinterestedly amidst his complicated illnesses and
embarrassments, to _use up_ an interest, which he may so well need, in
favor of a stranger; and from that day not a letter has B. or even
myself, received from Highgate, unless _that publish'd one in the Times
is meant as a general answer to all the friends who have stirr'd to do
C. service_! Poor C. is not to blame, for he is in leading strings.--I
particularly wish you would read this part of my note to Mr. Rogers. Now
for home matters--Our next 2 Sundays will be choked up with all the
Sugdens. The third will be free, when we hope you will show your sister
the way to Enfield and leave her with us for a few days. In the mean
while, could you not run down some week day (afternoon, say) and sleep
at the Horse Shoe? I want to have my 2d vol. Elias bound Specimen
fashion, and to consult you about 'em. Kenney has just assured me, that
he has just touch'd L100 from the theatre; you are a damn'd fool if you
don't exact your Tythe of him, and with that assurance I rest

Your Brother fool C.L.

[Collier's book would be his _History of English Dramatic Poetry_, 1831.
Nichols's _Illustrations_ had been begun by John Nichols, and six
volumes were published between 1817 and 1831. It was completed in two
more volumes