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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
nce acquaintance was made at the South Kensington Museum, when the American author was examining the original manuscripts of Coleridge. He was talking with the custodian of these treasures about Hartley Coleridge and quoting his poems, when his listener suddenly remarked, My name is Hartley Coleridge! and explained that he was a grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This new and congenial friend was full of interesting anecdotes about Coleridge, Southey, and Lamb. Higginson wrote:— July 20. Lunched with E. Hartley Coleridge at Oxford and Cambridge Club . . . . Coleridge does not recall his grandfather but [remembers] well his great aunt Mrs. Lloyd a most superior woman at 90, reading Horace, etc. His aunt Mrs. H. A. Coleridge quoted her uncle Southey a great deal . . . . He says we must go to Torquay where his sister Christobel (!) lives. To continue the extracts from the foreign journals and letters:— London, July 27, 1897. Yesterday I went to Parliament and