tan in Search of a Wife_, nor has a search at the Bibliotheque
Nationale in Paris revealed one.

"R.'s interview with the Premier." R. would be Rogers. Perhaps the best
explanation of this portion of Lamb's letter is the following passage
from Mr. Dykes Campbell's memoir of Coleridge:--

On June 26, 1830, died George IV., and with him died the pensions of the
Royal Associates. Apparently they did not find this out until the
following year. In the _Englishman's Magazine_ for June, 1831, attention
was directed to the fact that "intimation had been given to Mr.
Coleridge and his brother Associates that they must expect their
allowances 'very shortly' to cease"--the allowances having been a
personal bounty of the late King. On June 3, 1831, Gillman wrote a
letter to the _Times_, "in consequence of a paragraph which appeared in
the _Times_ of this day." He states that on the sudden suppression of
the honorarium, representations on Coleridge's behalf were made to Lord
Brougham, with the result that the Treasury (Lord Grey) offered a
private grant of L200, which Coleridge "had felt it his duty most
respectfully to decline." Stuart, however, wrote to King William's son,
the Earl of Munster, pointing out the hardship entailed on Coleridge,
"who is old and infirm, and without other means of subsistence." He begs
the Earl to lay the matter before his royal father. To this a reply
came, excusing the King on account of his "very reduced income," but
promising that the matter shall be laid before His Majesty. To these
letters, which are printed in _Letters from the Lake Poets_ (pages
319-322), the following note is appended: "The annuity ... was not
renewed, but a sum of L300 was ultimately handed over to Coleridge by
the Treasury." Even apart from this bounty, Coleridge was not a sufferer
by the withdrawal of the King's pension, for Frere made it up to him
annually.

It is interesting to know that Lamb played so useful and characteristic
a part in this matter.

"The Sugdens." I do not identify these friends.

"2d vol. Elias." This would refer, I think, to the American volume,
published without authority, in 1828, under the title _Elia; or, Second
Series_, which Lamb told N.P. Willis he liked. It contained three pieces
not by Lamb; the rest made up from the _Works_ and the _London
Magazine_ (see Vol. II., notes).]

LETTER 534

CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON

Pray forward the enclosed, or put it in the post.

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