. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. th do not suspend memory and consciousness, deathitself will not deprive you of a faithful participator in allyour hopes and fears, affections and solicitudes, in yourunalterable S. T. Coleridge. CCXLV. TO THE REV. GEORGE MAY COLERIDGE. Monday, January 14, dear Nepheav, — An interview with your cousinHenry on Saturday and a note received from him lastnight had enabled me in some measure to prepare my mindfor the awful and humanly afflicting contents of yourletter, and I rose to the receiving of it from earnest sup-lication to the Father of Mercies
. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. th do not suspend memory and consciousness, deathitself will not deprive you of a faithful participator in allyour hopes and fears, affections and solicitudes, in yourunalterable S. T. Coleridge. CCXLV. TO THE REV. GEORGE MAY COLERIDGE. Monday, January 14, dear Nepheav, — An interview with your cousinHenry on Saturday and a note received from him lastnight had enabled me in some measure to prepare my mindfor the awful and humanly afflicting contents of yourletter, and I rose to the receiving of it from earnest sup-lication to the Father of Mercies and God of all Com-fort — that He would be strong in the weakness of Hisfaithful servant, and his effectual helper in the last con-flict. My first impulse on reading your letter was to setoff innnediately, but on a re-perusal, I doubt whether Ishall not better comply with your suggestion by waitingfor your next. Assuredly, if God permit I will not foregothe claim, which my heart and conscience justify me in Rev. George Coleritige. 1828] TO GEORGE MAY COLERIDGE 747 making, to be one among the mourners who ever trulyloved and honoured your father. Allow me, my dearnephew, in the swelling grief of my heart to say, that ifever man morning and evening and in the watches of thenight had earnestly intreated through his Lord and Medi-ator, that God would shew him his sins and their sinful-ness, I, for the last ten years at least of my life, have doneso! But, in vain, have I tried to recall any one momentsince my quitting the University, or any one occasion, inwhich I have either thought, felt, spoken, or intentionallyacted of or in relation to my biother, otherwise than asone who loved in him father and brother in one, and whoindependent of the fraternal relation and the remem-brance of his manifold goodness and kindness to me fromboyhood to early manhood should have chosen him aboveall I had known as the friend of my inmost soul. Neverhave mans feeling and character been more crue
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