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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin. Not previously published.
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Your letter of the 10th. which I have this evening received offers so fair a prospect of a
desirable establishment for Hartley, that it is not necessary for me to
say any thing respecting the two former plans which were proposed. Nothing can be more satisfactory than the present arrangement seems.
The only inconvenience is that of leaving College during the Vacations, & this we shall find means of obviating. Your opinion
respecting the time of his entering & his intermediate studies is perfectly judicious, & shall of course be followed. No youth
can promise better, & I have well-founded hopes that he will do honour to his name.
Concerning his father I have heard that he is writing a
book against Unitarianism;lose wholly give up the hope that in some fit of exertion he may produce something worthy of the powers with which he has
been gifted, – powers which considering their variety as well as their extent, exceed those of any person whom it has ever been my
fortune to meet with. – I do not mean to extenuate his total disregard of all duties, – but it must be some consolation to you to know
that those persons who have been most intimately connected with him during the last twenty years, who best know his conduct & have
most reason cause to deplore & to condemn it, retain for him thro all a degree of affection which it is not easy to
express.
I need not say that Mrs S. Coleridge is sincerely thankful for your brotherly kindness. She unites with me & Mrs Southey in kind regards to all your family