On March 24, 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes to J.J. Morgan about his troubles in Keswick, including his quarrel with Wordsworth.
STC, CL, III, 380: letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to J. J. Morgan [24 March 1812]
[24 March 1812] … the Grasmere Business has kept me in a fever of agitation—and will end in compleat alienation—I have refused to go over, & Wordsworth has refused to apologize and has thus made his 12 William Wordsworth: Interviews and Recollections choice between me and Basil Montagu, Esqre—and to omit less matters, lastly, Brown, the Printer of the Friend, who had the Friends, & 20 or 30£ worth of Paper of mine, and 36£ worth of Types, about 14 days ago run off and has absconded.—Every day I meant to write to you— but partly, I was in hopes that by delaying it I might be able to say definitely when I should set off, but chiefly, I have been in such a state of fever and irritation about the Wordsworths, my reason deciding one way, and my heart pulling me the contrary—scarcely daring to set off without seeing them, especially Miss Hutchinson who has done nothing to offend me—& yet—in short, I am unfit to bear these things —and make bad worse in consequence.—I have suffered so much that I wish I had not left London
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