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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER XII
19/24

You will be so kind as to acknowledge the receipt of the L50 in such manner as to make all matters as clear between us as possible; for, though you, I am sure, could not have intended to injure my character, yet the misconceptions, and perhaps misrepresentations, of your words have had that tendency.

By a letter from R.Southey I find that he will be in town on the 17th.

The article in Tuesday's _Courier_ was by me, and two other articles on Apostacy and Renegadoism, which will appear this week.
Believe me, with respect, your obliged, S.T.

COLERIDGE.
The following letter completes Coleridge's correspondence with Murray on this subject: _Mr.Coleridge to John Murray_.
[Highgate], _March_ 29, 1817.
Dear Sir, From not referring to the paper dictated by yourself, and signed by me in your presence, you have wronged yourself in the receipt you have been so good as to send me, and on which I have therefore written as follows--"A mistake; I am still indebted to Mr.Murray L20 _legally_ (which I shall pay the moment it is in my power), and L30 from whatever sum I may receive from the 'Christabel' when it is finished.

Should Mr.
Murray decline its publication, I conceive myself bound _in honor_ to repay." I strive in vain to discover any single act or expression of my own, or for which I could be directly or indirectly responsible as a moral being, that would account for the change in your mode of thinking respecting me.


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