Samuel Taylor Coleridge - His Detailed Time Line (version v)
by Keith A. Wilson
If you are a student of Coleridge or a researcher, I hope you find the following time line informative and in some way assists you in your endevors. Should you find any errors, etc. I would appreciate your feed back. this document is not a complete source of dates for Coleridge's works but a "where was he" on certain dates in his life. I'll leave it up to others to cite the dates for his poetry, etc. The following information especially the source quotes are sometimes contradictory (see September 7, 1803). I have not researched these contradictions but have merely cited these quotes based on the research of the various authors. I leave it up to the reader of this document to clear up any contradiction detected, however, if you are able to do so, I would be grateful if you would let me know via my email address on the main page of this web site. This document is a work in progress and will be added too over time so in other words it is not complete and may never be given the number of "Coleridge" histories to be read. Email Me or go to my Home Page
The source footnotes (eg fn¹) can be found at the bottom of this page.
AGE	DATE	EVENT	SOURCE and INFORMATION
	October 21, 1772	Samuel Taylor Coleridge born at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England	Public domain
1	August 12, 1774	Robert Southey born	Public domain, born at Wine Street, Bristol, Gloucester
5	1778	STC enters grammar school	fn¹, p. xiii " 'In this year (1778) I was admitted into the Grammar School, and soon outstripped all of my age.' "
6	1779	Coleridge's first year at King's School	fn², p. 14 "In his first year at the King's School (1779) an epidemic swept through the pupils, and both Sam and George lay dangerously ill isolated at the top of the School House with 'putrid fever'. This is the first time that Coleridge experienced the terrible nightmares that returned to him intermittently for the rest of his life, dreams so vivid and overmastering that he would wake whole households at Stowery, at Grasmere, and even at Highgate with his screams, and which are the subject - and indeed the inspiration - of many poems."
	October 1779	Coleridge fights with brother Frank and runs away	fn², p. 16 "Sam, typically demanding, had asked his mother to prepare him some special sliced cheese for toasting. Frank stole in, and minced it up 'to disappoint the favourite', and a violent fight ensued." "Sam fled down through the gardens of the Chanter's House to his old friend the river..." where he spent the night on the banks of the River Otter to be rescued the next day by Sir Stafford Northcote. ed note: the biographies are not clear if this incident took place before or after Sam's birth date of October 21st.
8	November 21, 1780	Coleridge's brother, the Rev. William Coleridge dies at Hackney, London	Public domain
	October 6, 1781	STC's father, the Rev. John Coleridge dies	1. Encyclopædia Britannica says his father died on October 6, 1781 2. The Story of a Devonshire House by Lord Coleridge, K.C., p. 20 (says d. Oct. 14, 1781) 3. Coleridge, The Early Family Letters, James Engell, p 6 (quoted from the Parish Register records the date as Oct. 6, 1781) 4. fn¹, p. xiv "His father died suddenly on the 4th October 1781, and his place, both as vicar and as schoolmaster, was taken by a Mr. Warren, with whom Coleridge remained as a dayscholar until the following April, when a presentation to Christ's Hospital was obtained for him from a Mr. John Way,..."
9	April 1782	Coleridge's mother sends him to London	fn², p. 23-24 "If Ann Coleridge did not wish to be parted from her youngest child, there is no sign of this, for she immediately despatched him to London in April to spend the spring and summer with her brother John Bowdon." "It was all highly unsuitable for a child of nine and a half, and pleased him no end. 'My Uncle was very proud of me, & used to carry me from Coffee-house to Coffee-house, and Tavern to Tavern, where I drank, & disputed, as if I had been a man-.' "
	July 18, 1782	Coleridge enters Christ Hospital (school) (Newgate Street City of London) Coleridge meets the young Lamb who was also a scholar at the school	fn¹, p. xiv "…Coleridge entered the great school on the 18th July 1782, an intervening period of about ten weeks having been spent in London with his mother's brother, Mr. John Bowdon who had a shop in Threadneedle Street." fn², p. 24-25 "In July he 'donned the Blue coat & yellow stockings', and went down to the prep school at Herfford for six weeks, where he was briefly very happy - 'for I had plenty to eat & drink, & pudding & vegetables almost every day'. Then , in September 1782, he was delivered up to the Under Grammar School of Christ's Hospital,..." fn⁸, chapter I p. 11 "Soon after the death of the Rev. John Coleridge, the Judge obtained from John Way, Esq., one of the governors of Christ's Hospital, a presentation to that school, and young Coleridge was sent by the Judge and placed there on the 18th July, 1782. 'O! what a change!' he goes on in the note above quoted."
11	1784	Coleridge may have returned to Ottery during holidays	fn¹, p. xviii "A tetter to his mother of 1785 suggests a bare possibility that he went to Ottery in 1784…"
14	April 7, 1787	STC's brother, John Coleridge dies at Tillicherry, India	fn², p. 10 "Francis so worshipped John that he finally contrived to join him in India at the incredibly early age of twelve. John even had a remarkable plan for Sam to join him in India as a cadet; but this was to be forestalled by his own tragic death from malaria, at Tillicherry, in January 1787."
15	February 28, 1788	Brother, James "The Colonel" Coleridge marries Frances Duke Taylor at St. Mary Arches, Exeter, Devonshire	1. Coleridge Early Visions by Richard Holmes (year only) 2. Burkes 1928, p. 567 (month, day and year) 3. The Story of a Devonshire House by Lord Coleridge, K.C., p. 63 (year & location) 4. FamilySearch® International Genealogical Index Batch number: M050991, Source Call No. 0917102, Printout Call No. 1037022 (date and location)
	1788	"Sam" enters the ranks of the "Grecians" STC meets Mrs. Evans and her three daughters	fn¹,p.xv"In his sixth year as a scholar, which was the sixteenth of his life, he entered the ranks of the 'Grecians' - the small band selected by the headmaster for special training under his own birch for the University Exhibitions of the school, one of which he gained in due time." fn¹, p. xvi, "About this time be became acquainted with a widow lady,'whose son,...taught me what it was to have a mother. I loved her as such; She had three daughters, and, of course, I fell in love with the eldest' [Mary]."
	September 10, 1788	Brother, the Doctor Luke Herman Coleridge marries Sarah Hart at Saint Martin, Exeter, Devonshire	Public domain
16	July 14, 1789	The Bastille falls	fn², p. 33 "The year 1789 was a turning point for Coleridge's whole generation. With the fall of the Bastille in July, the first tide of revolutionary excitement flooded through Europe, reaching even into the remote cloisters of Christ's Hospital."
	1789	Coleridge returns to Ottery.	fn¹, p. xv "A long exile it proved, for it seems probalble that the boy did not return to Ottery until the summer of 1789" fn², p. 33 "Feeling his wings and independence for the first time, he visited Ottery during the summer, where he went through the solemn rite of recarving his initials in the Pixies' Parlour, alongside those of his distant brothers."
17	September 7, 1790	STC leaves Christ's Hospital	fn⁸, p. 38 - 39 "Coleridge left Christ's Hospital for Jesus' College, Cambridge, 7th September, 1790,…"
18	December 1790	Samuel's brother, the Doctor Luke Herman Coleridge dies at Thorverton, Devon and is buried in the Church yard at Thorverton	fn², p. 38 "Early in 1791 came news of Luke's sudden death of a fever at Exeter: and this was quickly followed by the death of his beloved Nancy, after a long consumptive illness. Again, Coleridge turned to poetry, writing several more sonnets of deep and clumsy emotion:..."
	Winter 1790	Coleridge ill with rheumatic fever	fn², p. 37 "…throughout that last winter Coleridge was periodically ill with rheumatic fever, contracted as a result of a late autumn bathing expedition to the New River. For several months he spent long periods in the school sanatorium, dosed with opium to help him sleep, and doing little except write some striking scraps of poetry."
18	January 12, 1791	STC appointed to an "Exhibition" at Jesus College, Cambridge	fn¹, p. xviii "…the Committee of Almoners of Christ's Hospital appointed Coleridge to and Exhibition at Jesus College, Cambridge, on the books of which he was entered as a sizar on the 5th February." fn², p. 37 "Officially his career at Christ's Hospital ended in triumph. As the senior Grecian in his year, he was awarded in January 1791 a School Exhibition worth £40 to take him to Cambridge, renewable for four years;..."
	February 5, 1791	Entered Jesus' College, Cambridge	fn⁸, footnote to chapter I, p. 39 "Entered at Jesus' College, Feb 5th, 1791, at the age of 19…" ed. note: Coleridge was 18 at the time but in his 19th year
	March 12, 1791	Sister Anne "Nancy" Coleridge dies at the age of 24	see December 1790
	1791	STC returns to Ottery	fn¹, p. xviii "There is, however, no reasonable doubt that Coleridge went home in 1791, between school and college, or that Happiness was written at Ottery in that year." ed. note, sister Nancy died March 12, 1791, Coleridge could have returned to Ottery at or near to this event. see also December 1790 regarding the death of his brother Luke Herman.
19	October 1791	Coleridge enters Jesus' College, Cambridge	fn², p. 39 "Coleridge was just nineteen when he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge in the autumn of 1791."
	Christmas 1791	Coleridge spends Christmas with the Evanses	fn², p. 41 "The Christmas vacation of 1791 was spent with the Evanses in Villiers Street where Coleridge passed a 'potently medicinal' fortnight, eating turkey, tutoring Tom, and walking the trree sisters to their milliner's shop in Jermyn Street."
	January 21, 1792	Lt. Francis "Frank" Syndercombe Coleridge dies unmarried at Seringapatam, India at the age of 22	fn², p. 5 "...the most handsome and dashing of the boys, who would also go to India. 'All my Brothers are remarkably handsome,' observed Coleridge mournfully, 'but they were as inferior to Francis as I am to them.' This question of inferiority" was to be a recurring anxiety of the youngest, uncertain whether he was the Benjamin or the black sheep."	check out this quote from Coleridge Early Visions. Excerpt from Coleridge Early Years by Richand Holmes
	March 26, 1792	STC matriculated
21	December 2, 1793	Coleridge enlists in the army	fn¹, p. xx "On the 2nd December 1793 he enlisted under the name of Silas Tomkyn Comberbach, in the 15th, or King's Regiment of Light Dragoons." fn⁵, p. 13 "He disappeared for two months and reappeared on 2 December 1793 when he volunteered as a private..." fn⁸, chapter II, p. 57 "Walking along Chancery Lane in the morning, he noticed a bill posted on the wall, 'Wanted a few smart lads for the 15th, Elliot's Light Dragoons;' — he paused a moment, and said to himself, 'Well, I have had all my life a violent antipathy to soldiers and horses, the sooner I can cure myself of these absurd prejudices the better, and I will enlist in this regiment.' "
	April 10, 1794	STC is discharge from the army	fn¹, p. xx "…the dragoon summoned courage to write to his favourite brother George, and, after some confidential correpondance with him, a properly humble and dutiful letter was concocted, and addressed, on February 20, 1794, by Samuel to the head of the family, his brother Captain James Coleridge. His discharge was procured, but not until the 10th of April."
	April 11, 1794	Coleridge returns to Cambridge	fn², p. 59 "Coleridge reuturned to Cambridge on 11 April 1794, travelling up on the outside of the night mail after symbolically missing the Cambridge fly. He had booked a seat, but then went for a contemplative walk, and the fly shot by him on the road For all his brothers' hopes, he would never again settle down at the university, his dreams were elsewhere."
	June 17, 1794	Coleridge meets Robert Southey at Oxford at the start of the "first of Coleridge's many epic walks". Birth of the Panisocratic scheme.	fn², p. 61"It was the first of Coleridge's many epic walks: during the serious part of the tour they covered over 500 miles in just over a month - from Gloucester to Anglesey through the Welsh hills, and back by the coast to Bristol. They departed from Cambridge at dawn on 15 June, planning a brief stop-over with Bob Allen in Oxford, before disappearing into wild Wales."... "They tramped into Oxford about 17 June, going straight round to Allen's rooms in University College for a memorable reunion between the two Grecians. Coleridge had brought a subscribers' list for his Imitations in his knapsack, and armed with this they trooped over to Balliol to meet Robert Southey, the twenty-year-old poet from Bristol..."
	August 5, 1794	Returning from an expedition to Wales, Coleridge arrived in Bristol	fn⁵, p. 14 "After his expediton to Wales, Coleridge arrived in Bristol on 5 August and presented himself at the Lovells' in order to renew his acquaintance with Southey and Robert Lovell." fn¹⁶, p. 11-12 "In the summer of 1794, at the close of a pedestrian tour in Wales, he reached Bristol; and walked thence with Southey into Somerset, to see their common friend Burnett at his father's house, and discuss the recently formed scheme of Pantisocracy and emigration to America."
	1794 (Summer)	The Fall of Robespierre created	fn¹⁵, p. 15 "We are still in the summer of 1794, and we left Coleridge at Bristol with Southey, Lovell, and the Miss Frickers. To this year belongs that remarkable experiment in playwriting at high pressure, The Fall of Robespierre. It originated, we learn from Southey, in 'a sportive conversation at poor Lovell's,' when each of the three friends agreed to produce one act of a tragedy, on the subject indicated in the above title, by the following evening."
	August 18, 1794	Met with Thomas Poole at Nether Stowery	fn¹⁶, p. 12 "On August 18 he met Thomas Poole at Nether Stower; and, returning to Southey's mother's house at Bath, met and became engaged to Sarah Fricker, to whose sister, Edith, Southey became engaged. He stayed thereafter at Bristol for several weeks, writing and lecturing; then went to Cambridge, which he left for London in December."
22	December 11, 1794	Coleridge returns to London	fn², p. 83 "Coleridge was back in London for the Christmas vacation by 11 December, where he was to remain for a month, lodging at the Salutation & Cat, furiously writing letters and poetry, and trying to decide if he should really leave the university. In theory the Patisocratic expedition was still scheduled for March or April 1795, but none of the £2,000 capital had been raised, and various alternatives had to be considered."
	January 1795	Southey retreves Coleridge from London	fn¹⁶, p. 12 "Early in January, 1795, Southey went up to London, and brought him back to 48 College Street, Bristol, where he (Southey) lodged with Burnett; and there Coleridge remained with Southey, sharing rooms with his two fiends, writing and lecturing till summer. Then they separated, Southey returning to Bath, and Coleridge going alone into rooms at 25 College Street, a house which no longer exists. In September he went down to Nether Stowey to visit Poole."
	February 1795	Published his first prose work Two lectures given in the month of February, 1795	fn⁸, chapter II, p. 75 "In the year 1795 Coleridge, residing then at Clevedon, a short distance from Bristol, published his first prose work, with some additions by Mr. Southey, the Conciones ad Populum. In a short preface he observes, 'The two following addresses were delivered in the month of February, 1795, and were followed by six others in defence of natural and revealed religion.' ..." ed. note, Coleridge and Sarah moved to Clevedon on October 31, 1795 after their marriage, see note below. fn⁹, p. 20, "Mr. Coleridge's next two lectures were delivered the latter end of February, 1795, and afterwards were thrown into a small pamphlet, printed under the title of 'Conciones ad Populum, or Addresses to the people.' After this he consolidated two other of his lectures, and published them under the title of 'The Plot Discovered.' Two detached lectures were given at the Corn Market, and one at a room in Castle Green. All these lectures were anti-Pitt-ite.
	May 19, 1795	"Six Lectures on Revealed Religion" given at the Assembly Coffeehouse, Bristol Quay.	fn ², p. 95 "They soon renewed their lecturing, Southey completing a biweekly series on the historical background to the French Revolution on 28 April; and Coleridge returning to the fray at the Assembly Coffeehouse, Bristol Quay, on 19 May. His subject appeared suitably esoteric: 'Six Lectures on Revealed Religion' according to the well-advertised prospectus, but containg the sting in its subtitle: 'Its Corruptions and Political Views' ".
	June 16, 1795	Single lecture given on the slave trade	fn⁹, p. 20 "The next lexture given by Mr. Coleridge was in reprobation of the Slave Trade. The following was the prospectus. 'To-morrow Evening, Tuesday, June 16th, 1795, S. T. Coleridge will deliver (by particular desire) a Lecture on the Slave Trade, and the duties that result from its continuance. To bigin at 8 o'clock, at the Assembly Coffee House, on the Quay. Admittance, One Shilling.' "
	June 23, 1795	A series of six political lectures	fn⁹, p. 25 "The following is the prospectus of Mr. Coleridge's series of Political lectures. 'S. T. Coleridge proposes to give, in Six Lectures, a comparative view of the English Rebellion, under Charles the First, and the French Revolution. The subjects of the proposed Lectures are, FIRST. The distinquishing marks of the French and English character, with their probable causes. The natioal circumstances precursive to--1st, the English Rebellion.--2nd, the French Revolution. SECOND. The Liberty of the Press. ... THIRD. The Fanaticism of the first English and French Revolutionists. ... FOURTH. 1st, Characters of Charles the First, and Louis the Sixteenth. 2nd, of Louis the Fourteenth and the present Empress of Russia. 3rd, Life and Character of Essex, and Fayette. FIFTH. Oliver Cromwell, and Robespierre.--Cardinal Mazarine, and William Pitt.--Dundas, and Barrere. SIXTH. On Revolution in general. ... It is intended that the Lectures should be given once a week; on Tuesday Evenings, at eight o'clock, at the Assembly Coffee House, on the Quay. The First Lecture, on Tuesday, June 23d, 1795. ...' "

	August, 1795	Coleridge meets Southey in Bristol and Wordsworth for the first time	fn², p. 101 "He also met for the first time a poet he had admired since Cambridge days, and the discussions at Trinity College Literary Society, William Wordsworth. The meeting took place at 7 Great George Street, the town house of John Pinney, a rich West Indies sugar merchant." fn¹⁶, 26 "...the impression upon his mind is that he first saw them both, and your mother and aunt Edith at the same time, in a lodging in Bristol. this must have been about the year 1795." from a letter of November 7, 1845 from Mrs. Wordsworth to Sara Coleridge
			fn¹⁶, pp. 28-29 "…as we know that it took place in the autumn of 1795, before Coleridge's wedding in October, we are almost shut up to the conclusion that the meeting took place in Mr. Pinney's house in Great George Street."
	1795	Lectures continue (Spring and Summer)	fn¹⁵, p. 19 "Throughout the spring and summer of 1795 Coleridge continued his lectures at Bristol, his head still simmering--though less violently, it may be suspected, every month--with Pantisocracy, and certainly with all his kindred political and religious enthusiasms unabated."
	October 4, 1795	Samuel and Sarah Fricker are married at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, Gloucester	fn², p. 102 "The marriage of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sara Fricker took place on 4 October 1795, with proper literary overtones, at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, Chatterton's church where the poet's 'Rowley munuscripts' had been discovered in the huge muniment room in the bell tower. 'The thought,' wrote Coleridge to Poole, 'gave me a tinge of melancholy to the solemn Joy, which I felt - united to the woman, whom I love best of all created Beings.' No member of Coleridge's family attended, not even George; and Sara was not introduced at Ottery for a year. This marks the beginning of a decisive social alienation between Coleridge and his brothers." fn⁹, p. 57 "Mr. Coleridge, in prospect of his marriage, had taken a cottage, at Clevedon, a village, happily on the banks of the--Susquehannah?--No, Severn. He was married to Miss Sarah Fricker, October 4th, 1795, and immediately after, set off for his country abode."
			fn⁹, p. 58 "The following is a copy of the certificate. 'St. Mary Redcliff Church, Bristol. Married, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to Sarah Fricker, Oct. 4th, 1795. Benj. Spry, Vicar Winesses, Martha Fricker Jesiah Wade.' "
23	October 31, 1795	Coleridge and Sarah move to Clevedon, Somerset	fn², p. 104 "It is not clear how long Coleridge and Sara had intended to stay at Clevedon - the rent was only £5 per annum, but the onset of winter, and literary affairs in Bristol, inevitably drew him back to the city. Coleridge continued to rent the cottage until the following March, but in practice he was rarely there with Sara for more than a few days at a time after November." fn¹⁶, p. 12 - 15 "...he was married to Sarah Fricker, in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, on Octorber 4, 1795, and at once settled in a cottage at Clevedon. This he soon found too far from the Bristol library, and removed to rooms on Redcliffe Hill."
	November 26, 1795	STC returns to Bristol. Attends a public meeting at the Bristol Guildhall to petition the King "for a speedy Termination of the Present War". Starts lectures in Bristol.	fn², p. 106 "On 26 November, he delivered his own lecture 'On the Two Bills' with which Pitt intended to suppress seditious meetings and publications; and this was puiblished in a pamphlet the following day, with the challenging title, The Plot Discovered, or an Address to the People against Ministerial Treason."
	January 9, 1796	Coleridge left Bristol for a five-week subscription-gathering tour	fn², p. 107 "On 9 January 1796 Coleridge left Bristol for a hectic five-week subscription-gathering tour of the larger Midland towns and cities including Worcester, Birmingham, Derby and Sheffield." fn⁹, p. 153 "Mr. Coleridge, conceiving that his means of subsistence depended on the success of this undertaking, armed himself with unwonted resolution, and expressed his determination to travel over half England, and take the posse commitatus by storm. In conformity with such resolution,... (and in) The beginning of Jan. 1796, Mr. Coleridge, laden with recommendatory epistles, and rich in hope, set out on his eventful journey, and visited in succession, Worcester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Lichfield, Derby, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, &c. and as a crowning achievement, at the last, paid his respects to the great metropolis..."
	February 1796	Visits Poole	fn¹⁶, p. 15 "In February 1796, he went to Nether Stowey to visit Thomas Poole; but returned to Bristol, to a house at Kingsdown."
	February 5 to May, 1796	"The Watchman" published	fn², p. 110 "The first issue of the Watchman appeared as planned on 1 March 1796, opening with a long 'Introductory Essay' on the diffusion of politacal knowledge among his readers." fn⁸, chapter II, p. 75 "Mr. Coleridge's next work was the Watchman in numbers — a miscellany to be published every eighth day. The first number appeared on the 5th of February, 1796. This work was a report of the state of the political atmosphere, to be interspersed with sketches of character and verse. It reached the 10th number, and was then dropped;..."
			fn⁹, p. 151 "In a few days the following prospectus fo the new work was circulated far and near. 'To supply at once the places of a Revieew, Newspaper, and Annual register. On Tuesday, the 1st of March, 1796, will be pulished, No. 1, price fourpence, of a Miscellany, to be continued every eighth day, under the name of THE WATCHMAN, BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
	March 1796	Coleridge moves his family to Kingsdown, Bristol	fn², p. 110 "March and April 1796 were months of exhausting struggle. Coleridge moved house to Kingsdown, Bristol, were he nursed his wife, and later his brother-in-law, Robert Lovell, who was also dangerously ill." fn¹¹, p. "On the 1st of March, 1796, 'The Watchman' was pulished; it ended with the tenth number on the 13th of May following. In March Mr. C. removed to a house in Oxford Street in Kingsdown, ..."
	May 3, 1796	Robert Lovell, Coleridge's brother-in-law dies of fever at Clevedon, Gloucester	Public domain
	May 13, 1796	The Watchman closed down	fn², p. 116 "Two days later (after May 3) he decided to close down the Watchman. He was in debt by some £80, and his affairs were as bad 'as the most Trinitarian Anathemizer, or rampant Philo-despot could wish in the moment of cursing' "…"On 13 may 1796 he brought out number ten, the last issue,..." fn⁹, p. 158 " 'This is the last Number of the Watchman.--Henceforward I shall cease to cry the state of the Political atmosphere. While I express my gratitude to those friends who exerted themselves so liberally in the establishment of this Miscellany, I may resonably be expected to assign some reason for relinquishing it thus abruptly. the reason is short and satisfactory.--The work does not pay its expenses.' "
	1796	Preaches in Bath	fn⁹, p. 178 - 180 ""…so that it was determined that Mr. Coleridge, as the commencement of his brilliant career, should be respectfully requested to preach his inaugural discourse, in the Socinian chapel at Bath." "Considering that it had been announced, on the preceding Sunday that 'the Rev. S. T. Coleridge, from Cambridge University' would preach there on this day, we naturally calculated on an overflowing audience, but it proved to be the most meagre congregation I had ever seen. The reader will but imperfectly appreciate Mr. C's discourse, without the previous information, that this year (1796) was a year of great scarcity, and consequent privation, amongst the poor;..." ed. note: It's not clear from the text of these pages what time of the year this sermon took place.
	June 16, 1796	Coleridge visits the Wordsworths at Racedown	fn¹⁶, p. 16 "Coleridge went out to see him (Wordsworth) at Racedown on June 16, 1796, again on the 28th, and on July 2; returning on that day to Stowey with the Wordsworths, who remained there a fortnight, before they settled at Alfoxden."
	July 30, 1796	Brother George Coleridge marries Jane "Jenny" Hart at Saint Martin, Exeter, Devonshire	Public domain
	September 19, 1796	Sam's first son, David Hartley "Job" Coleridge is born at Kingsdown, Bristol, Gloucester	fn², p. 122 Coleridge was in Birmingham "when news arrived"…"of the sudden birth of Sara's child, some two weeks premature."…p. 123 "It seems ominous that Coleridge was a hundred miles away for this signal event. He explained that 'Sara had strangely miscalculated' her dates. He left for Bristol the next day,..."
24	November 1796	Coleridge experiences neuralgia down the right-hand side of his face.	fn², p. 127 "In November there was a domestic crisis in his own household at Bristol, which produced Coleridge's first deliberate piece of composition under the influence of opium. First Coleridge was struck by excruciating neuralgia down the right-hand side of his face, ...the worst pain he had ever experienced,...For a week he dosed himself on twenty-five drops of opium every five hours, sometimes increasing the dose to seventy drops. He ran round the house naked, in a frenzy of pain and delirium."
	December 31, 1796	Coleridge Cottage, 35 Lime Street, Nether Stowey where the Coleridge family move to in 1796	fn⁴, p. 90 "The allusion is to Coleridge's latest plan, to take 'a cottage and half a dozen acres of land in an enchanting Situation about eight miles from Bridgewater' . [p. 91] It was to be a different cottage, a small house in Nether Stowey at the bottom of Tom Poole's garden, that Coleridge finally moved on the last day of the year. Tiny, dark, and damp, facing straight on to the street, with a gutter running past the front door, an infestation of mice, and the smell of Poole's nearby tannery all too prevalent, the cottage nevetheless represented true happiness to Coleridge. The cottage must have seemed all the more attractive to an increasingly desperate Coleridge when it looked, in December 1796, as if Poole was regretting his invitation to him to come and be his close neighbour."
			fn¹⁶, p. 15 "…they went to reside in Nether Stowey, on December 31, 1796, where they stayed till 1800. A narrow pathway communicated with Poole's garden. There was no quiet possible, and there were almost always visitors. Poole's library was near, and the 'jasmine arbour' close at hand. yet here Coleridge's finest poetic work was done; and hither came the Wordsworks, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, Thelwall, and others."
			fn¹⁶, p. 48 "On the 30th of December, 1796, Coleridge left Bristol with his wife and child, to live in the humble cottage at Nether Stowey, which soon afterwards became closelty associated with his 'poetic prime.' " fn¹⁶, p. 48 - 49 "The first literary thing he did, after his arrival at that cottage-home, was to add to the poems he had already written, and which had been published by Cottle; and to plan out a second edition, for which he had begun to prepare in the year 1796. Cottle offered him twenty guineas for an edition of five hundred copies of that volume; but there seems to have been much delay in the printing of it, as it was not compeleted till March, 1797,..."
	April 1797	Wordsworth at Nether Stowey 1797 - "Lime-Tree Bower"	fn², p. 143 "…Wordsworth…who was walking back from Bristol to Racedown in Dorset, and made a detour to call in at Stowey in early April."
	April 1797	Poems on Various Subjects published by Cottle	fn¹⁵, p. 22 "…in April 1797 there appeared at Bristol a volume of some fifty pieces entitled Poems on Various Subjects, by S. T. Coleridge, late of Jesus College Cambridge. It was published by his friend Cottle, who, in a mixture of the generous with the speulative instinct, had given him thirty guineas for the copyright."
	May 10, 1797	Coleridge buckles down to work	fn², p. 144 "The coming of spring to the Quantocks, the lengthening days, the seductive trails of wild flowers leading up into the combes above Stowey, must also have stimulated him. Coleridge buckled down to his work again, and by 10 May had written 1,500 lines of his Spanish tragedy, to be called Osorio." fn⁸, chapter II, p. 107 "Coleridge also in 1797 wrote the Remorse, or rather the play he first called Osorio, the name of the principal character in it, but finding afterwards that there was a respectable family of that name residing in London, it was changed for the title of the Remorse, and the principal character, Osorio, to Ordonio."
	Mid June 1797	Coleridge visits Wordsworth at Racedown. Returns to Stowey, June 28 with Wordworth November, 1797 The Ancient Mariner started and completed March, 1798	fn², p. 148 "…Coleridge set out on a long summer walk throught the Vale of Taunton and over the Black Down Hills to visit Wordsworth at Racedown." p. 149 "Coleridge remained at Racedown for a fortnight, during which two of the greatest friendships of his life were formed irrevocably, for good and ill." fn¹⁶, p. 62 "Coleridge was at Taunton on June 5, 1797, and 'on the evening of that, or the next day, he arrived on foot at Racedown, some forty miles distant,' says Mr. Ernest Coleridge."
	June 1797	Composed Lime-tree Bower my Prison	fn⁸, chapter II, p. 107 "in June, 1797, he was visited by his friend Charles Lamb and his sister. On the morning after their arrival, Coleridge met with an accident which disabled him from walking during the whole of their stay. One evening, when they had left him for a few hours, he composed the poem, This Lime-tree Bower my Prison, in which he refers to his old friend, while watching him in fancy with his sister, winding and ascending the hills at a short distance, himself detained as if a prisoner:..."
	June 1797	Visit at Stowey by the Lambs	fn¹⁵, p. 38 "In June 1797 Charles and Mary Lamb arrived at the Stowey cottage to find their host disabled by an accident which prevented him from walking during their whole stay. It was during their absence on a walking expedition that he composed the pleasing lines-- 'The lime-tree bower my prison,' " fn¹⁶, p. 63 " 'Charles Lamb has been with me for a week¹. He left me Friday morning. The second day after Wordsworth came to me, dear Sara emptied a skillet of boiling milk on my foot, which confined me during the whole time of C. Lamb's stay, and still prevents me from all walks longer than a furlong. While Wordsworth, his sister, and Charles Lamb were out one evening, sitting in the arbour of T. Poole's garden, which communicates with mine, I wrote these lines, with which I am pleased.' "² "¹ Charles Lamb's visit to Stowey lasted from July 7 to July 14, 1797." ² This lime-tree bower my prison! ed note: note the descripency between the Lamb visit dates of June and July
	July 4, 1797	Domestic accident	fn², p. 153 "On July 4, in the chaotic bustle of the cottage, Sara Accidently emptied a skillet of boiling milk over Coleridge's foot, laming him for several days."
	End July 1797	Sara has a miscarriage	fn², p. 153 "…towards the end of the month, Sara had a miscarriage - 'in so early a stage, that it occasioned but little pain, one day's indispositon, and no confinement.' "
	Summer 1797	The Wordsworths move to Alfoxden only miles from Nether Stowey	fn², p. 160 "Throughout the long summer days, and moonlit nights, of August and September 1797, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Dorothy continued their exploration of the Quantocks."
			fn¹⁵, p. 61 " 'In the summer of 1797 the author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair...' " From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An anodyne (Greek αν, loss, and οδυνη, pain: a cause which relieves pain) is a medicine that relieves or soothes pain by lessening the sensibility of the brain or nervous system. Also called an analgesic (or colloquially a "painkiller"). The term has been applied incorrectly to various medications, such as narcotics, hypnotics, and opiates. True anodynes were applied externally to the part affected. Such among those classed "simple" were onion, lily, root of mallows, leaves of violet, elderberry, etc.
	October 1797	Coleridge goes on a walk along the coast to Lynton	fn², p. 162 "It was some time during this first fortnight In October 1797 that he probably went for a long solitary walk along the coast to Lynton, exhausted from his labours, and, taken ill on his return journey, stopped off at Ash Farm above Culbone Church, where he wrote 'Kubla Khan'." p. 167 "Most scholars now date the composition of 'Kubla Khan' to October 1797, based on the evidence of the Crewe Ms and this letter to Thelwall of 14 October 1797."
	1797 Autumn	Walks with the Wordsworths	fn¹⁵, p. 50 "In the Autumn of 1797, records Wordsworth in the MS. notes which he left behind him, 'Mr. Coleridge, my sister, and myself started from Alfoxden pretty late in the afternoon with a view to visit Linton and the Valley of Stones near to it; and as our united funds were very small, we agreed to defray the expense of the tour by writing a poem to be sent to the New Monthly Magazine. Accordingley we set off, and proceeded along the Quantock Hills towards Watchet; and in the course of this walk was planned the poem of the Ancient Mariner, founded on a dream, as Mr. Coleridge said, of his friend Mr. Cruikshank. Much the greatest part of the story was Mr. Coleridge's invention, but certain parts I suggested; for example, some crime was to be committed which should bring upon the Old Navigator, as Coleridge afterwards delighted to call him, the spectral persecution, as a consequence of the crime and his own wanderings."
	1797	Brother James Coleridge buys Heath's Court in Ottery St. Mary.	fn²⁰, p. 322 "About the year 1797 he left Tiverton, and went to reside on an estate newly purchased by him, called Heath's Court, in Ottery St Mary; his principal motive in so doing being that his sons might thereby more conveniently enjoy the benefit of education in the Free Grammar School, of which his brother, the late Rev. George Coleridge, had been then recently appointed master." ed. note: Heath's Court is today called The Chanter's House. Colonel James Coleridge had seven surviving children at 1797.
25	January 1798	Coleridge offered a position as the Unitarian minister at Shrewsbury	fn², p. 177 "…with a salary of £120 and a good house worth £30 in rent. This put him in an extraordinary dilemma - torn, as he put it, between the press and the pulpit. It also implied the break-up of his life in the Quantocks with the Wordsworths, and the perhaps suspension of their experiments in poetry for even the Mariner was not yet finished." "...on 13 January (Coleridge) set out to preach an inaugural sermon at Shrewsbury." fn⁸, chapter II, p. 108 - 109 "...Mr. William Hazlitt became acquainted with him, which is thus vividly recorded in the Liberal: 'My father was a dissenting minister at Wem, in Shropshire; and in the year 1798, Mr. Coleridge came to Shrewsbury, to succeed Mr. Rowe in the spiritual charge of a Unitarian congregation there.' He did not come till late on the Saturday afternoon before he was to preach, and Mr. Rowe, who himself went down to the coach in a state of anxiety and expectation, to look for the arrival of his successor, could find no one at all answering the description, but a round-faced man,
			in a short black coat (like a shooting jacket), which hardly seemed to have been made for him, but who appeared to be talking at a great rate to his fellow-passengers. Mr. Rowe had scarcely returned to give an account of his disappointment, when the round-faced man in black entered, and dissipated all doubts on the subject, by beginning to talk. He did not cease while he stayed, nor has he since that I know of. He held the good town of Shrewsbury in delightful suspense for three weeks that he remained there, 'fluttering the proud Salopians like an eagle in a dove-cot;' and the Welsh mountains, that skirt the horizon with their tempestuous confusion, agree to have heard no such mystic sounds...' "
	January 1798	William Hazlitt attends sermon	fn¹⁸ , p. 379 "Iit was in January, 1798, that I rose one morning before day-light, to walk ten miles in the mud, to hear this celebrated person preach. Never, the longest day I have to live, shall I have such another walk as this cold, raw, comfortless one, in the winter of the year 1798. When I got there, the organ was playing the 100th psalm; and when it was done, Mr. Coleridge rose and gave out his text--'And he went up into the mountain to pray, himself, alone.' As he gave out this text, his voice 'rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes;' and when he came to the two last words, which he pronounce loud, deep, and distinct, it seemed to me, who was then young, as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart, and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe. ..."
	January 16, 1798	The Wedgwoods offered Coleridge an annuity of £150 "for life"	fn², p. 178 "On the Tuesday after his first sermon at Shrewsbury (14 January, 1798), while breakfasting with the Unitarian minister of nearby Wem, Coleridge received his reply from Cote House: 'an annuity of £150 for life, legally secured to me, no condition whatever being annexed'. It was a proposal which, if accepted, would transform his life."
	January 17, 1798	Coleridge accepts the Wedgwood's offer February, 1798, "Frost at Midnight" written at Stowey	fn², p. 181 "From Shrewsbury, Coleridge wrote to Josiah Wedgwood on 17 January 1798 accepting the annuity, in a short, heartfelt letter of thanks. Such benevolence had 'filled his eyes with tears'. He dedicated himself to 'honourable effort' in the future, to prove all their good intentions justified. He withdrew from the Shrewsbury ministry, and returned in triumph to Bristol on 30 January, where he stayed a week at Cote House, finally reaching Stowey on 9 February."
	February 1798	Coleridge returns to Stowey from Shrewsbury	fn¹⁵, p. 62 "Soon after the Anient Mariner was written, and some time before the volume which was to contain it appeared, Coleridge quitted Stowey for Shrewsbury to undertake the duties of a Unitarian preacher in that town. This was in the month of January 1798, and it seems pretty certain, though exact dates are not to be ascertained, that he was back again at Stowey early in the month of February."
	March 8, 1798	Confined to bed	fn⁹, p. 294 "My dear Cottle, I have been confined to my bed for some days, through a fever occasioned by the stump of a tooth,…" ed. note (from a letter to Cottle)
	March 23, 1798	Coleridge took the completed Ancient Mariner over to the Wordsworths at Alfoxden.	fn², p. 172 "…, Dorothy's Journal shows that the completed work was not brought over to Alfoxden for reading until 23 March 1798." fn², p. 185 "Dorothy's Journal shows that Coleridge, occasionally accompanied by Sara, was up at Alfoxden most days in February and March. Thereafter long walks were again impractical for Sara because of her pregnancy. Coleridge continued to come alone, and there is an increasing impression of him disapperaring for days at a time into the Quantock Hills with the Wordsworths, throughout the spring of 1798." fn², p. 194 "Such expeditons continued throughout May and June,..."
	May 14, 1798	STC's second son, Berkeley Coleridge is born at Nether Stowey, Somserset 1798 - First part of "Christabel", "France: and Ode", "Fears in Solitude" (April 1798), "Kubla Khan", "Lewti", "The Old Man of the Alps", "The Dark Ladie"	fn⁵, p. 68 "On 14 May 1798 the Coleridges' second son Berkeley was born, named for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, author of works on the 'relation of man to nature'."
	June 1798	Plans for a trip to Germany	fn², p. 196-197 "He (Coleridge) found no difficulty in sweeping Wordsworth and Dorothy into this next plan, since the St. Aubin family had refused to renew the lease on Alfoxden after June,…" "Initially, Coleridge also intended to take Sara and his children with him, planning only for a '3 or 4 months sojourn' at Hamburg and Jena. But Berkeley's delicate health and 'the uncertainty of our happiness, comfort, cheap living etc in Germany' gradually called this part of the scheme into question." fn², p. 197 "In June, Coleridge spent several days with the Wedgwoods discussing his plans at their new house in Cobham in Surrey." fn², 198 "Coleridge's decision to go without Sara was justified on practical grounds. The trip was to be one of strict 'intellectual utility' and economy;..."
	June 26, 1798	Wordsworths take leave of Alfoxden	fn¹⁶, p. 204 "The Wordsworths left alfoxden on 26th of June 1798, and stayed with the Coleridges at Stowey for a week." ed note: see fn² of July 1798 stating the Wordsworths were at Stowey in July
	July 1798	Wordsworths visit the Coleridges at Stowey	fn², p. 198 "In July, the Wordsworths took leave of Alfoxden, staying for a week at Stowey,…"
	August 1798	Coleridge absent from Stowey most of summer	fn², p. 198 "…Sara, at first acquiescent, came to feel the separation keenly, and finally with great bitterness. Indeed Coleridge was already much absent from Stowey that summer even before departure, He was in Bristol during August, and made a 'sudden dart into Wales' with the Wordsworths for a week, to see John Thelwall at his farm at Llyswen. By early September he was in London with Chester, renewing contacts with Godwin, and cultivating Wordsworth's radical publisher at St Paul's Churchyard, Joseph Johnson."
	September 16, 1798	STC sails for Germany with Wordsworth and Dorothy	fn², p. 204 "On 16 September 1798 the packet sailed out of Yarmouth at eleven in the morning on a brisk south-westerly, and the author of the Ancient Mariner found himself for the first time in open seas." fn⁸, chapter II, p. 118 "On the 16th of September, 1798, he sailed from Great Yarmouth to Hamburg, in company with Mr. Wordsworth and his sister in his way to Germany, and now for the first time beheld 'his native land' retiring from him."
	September 19, 1798	Arrival in Hamburg	fn², p. 207 "They docked at Hamburg on 19 September 1798,...(where) (t)hey remained...for a fortnight,..."
	September 29, 1798	Coleridge and the Wordworths go separate ways in Germany. October 1798, "Lyrical Ballads" published	fn², p. 210 "They stayed in Hamburg for the Feast of St Michael on 29 September, which cheered them all, and then Coleridge and Chester removed to Ratzeburg for the winter, while Wordsworth and Dorothy slipped deep into Lower Saxony,..."
26	December 31, 1798	Sarah Coleridge goes to Bristol to stay in her mother's house	fn⁵, p. 78 "Sarah went to her mother's house in Bristol on 31 December 1798 in the hope that the change of air would do Berkeley some good…In Bristol Sarah had the company and support of her family - both Mary Lovell and Eliza were living with their mother and they took turns to sit up with her during the night as Berkeley's bever and breathing difficulties increased."
	January 4, 1799	Coleridge receives a letter from Poole. Advises Poole of plans for extended stay in Germany to end of May	fn², p. 216 "…Coleridge at last received a long letter from Poole, and immediately sat down to aswer it with a detailed description of his 'German studies and future plans…He now unveiled his revised plan to travel south and enrol himself in the University of Göttingen until the end of the academic year in May." fn², p. 216 "Coleridge seems to have been unaware of the heartache that this sudden extension of his plans, from a three-month to an eight-month sojourn abroad, would inevitably cause Sara. This insensitivity eventually aroused great resentment in his wife."
	February 6, 1799	Coleridge and Chester leave Ratzeburg for Göttingen.	fn², p. 218 "Coleridge and Chester finally departed for Göttingen on 6 February 1799, embarking on a freezing, six-day journey southwards to the Hartz Mountains. They travelled the 200 miles in a series of antiquated German stagecoaches, during the coldest week of the century,..."
	February 10, 1799	Berkeley dies at Bristol, Gloucester.	fn⁵, p. 78 "Berkeley died on 10 February 1799. Sarah was shattered, After his death she stayed with Southey and Edith at their house in Westbury, the breach with Coleridge forgotten in mutual grief. Southey organised the funeral and burial. Sarah seems to have undergone a breakdown, her hair fading and falling out, so that she was forced to cut it all off and wear a wig"
	February 12, 1799	Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany.	fn², p. 219 "They finally reached the small university city, nestling among the hills, on the evening of 12 February, and took lodgings 'in a damn'd dirty hole in the Burg Strasse'. "
	April 4, 1799	Coleridge finally finds out that his son, Berkeley died on February 10, 1799.	fn², p. 223 "Over a month after Berkeley's death, Poole finally decided to inform Coleridge of the bare facts, in a brisk, mainly, uplifing letter posted on 15 March, which eventually reached Göttingen on 4 April." fn², p. 224 "When Coleridge first heard of his child's death, he went for a long walk in the open fields around Göttingen, and threw stones into the river as he had done as a boy at Ottery."
	Mid April 1799	Wordsworth and Dorothy appear in Göttingen	fn², p. 225 "In mid-April, Wordsworth and Dorothy suddenly appeared in Göttingen, after a long tour through the Hartz, and urged him to go back with them at once to England. Even this appeal he withstood."
	May 14, 1799	Travels in Germany	fn⁸, chapter II, p. 133 " 'We left Elbingerode, May 14th, and travelled for half a mile through a wild country, of bleak stony hills by our side, with several caverns, or rather mouths of caverns, visible in their breasts; and now we came to Rubilland,…' "
	June 24, 1799	Coleridge leaves Göttingen, Germany.	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xiii fn², p. 238 "There is no record of his reception at Stowey, but it cannot have been unmixed delight: within a fortnight Sara had gone to visit the Southeys who were on holiday at Minehead."
	July, 1799	Coleridge returns to England from Germany stopping off at London on the way to Stowey.	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xiii (see also June 24, 1799) fn², p. 238 - 239 "There is no record of his reception at Stowey, but it cannot have been unmixed delight: within a fortnight Sara had gone to visit the Southeys who were on holiday at Minehead. Poole was of course overjoyed at his return, but for Sara there were recriminations and anxieties: her husband's long absence, the death of Berkeley, uncertainty about their future home, and heavy overdrawing on the Wedgwood annuity. She also insisted on a reconciliation with Robert Southey, after all his kindness." "In Coleridge's absence, Southey had been acting in loco parentis, and Sara had been drawn towards her sister's much more stable household - a reassertion of the old Fricker family loyalties which was to emerge ever more strongly in future years."
			fn¹⁵, p. 75 "His movements for the next few months are incorrectly stated in most of the brief memoirs prefixed to the vaious editions of the poet's works, --their writers having, it is to be imagined, accepted without examination a misplaced date of Mr. Gillman's. It is not the fact that Coleridge 'returned to England after an absence of fourteen months, and arrived in London the 27th of November.' His absence could not have lasted longer than a year, for we know from the evidence of Miss Wordsworth's diary that he was exploring the Lake country (very likely for the first time) in company with her brother and herself in the month of September 1799."
	Mid August, 1799	Sara returns to Stowey with the Southeys	fn², p. 239 "…the Southeys and Sara came back together to Stowey in mid-August, and the two men formally embraced each other in the middle of Lime Street…" fn², p. 240 "The two families spent much of the next six weeks in each other's company: house hunting in Somerset, visiting George Coleridge's family at Ottery; and on a walking expedition through Devon..."
27	October 26, 1799	Meets Sara Hutchinson "Asra" for the first time in the Lake District.	fn², p. 246 "They (Coleridge and Cottle) reached Sockburn-on-Tees four days later (after leaving Durham on October 22), where they found Wordsworth in rude good health, comfortably established in the large manor farmhouse belonging to his old friends the Hutchinsons."
	November 18, 1799	Coleridge returns to Sockburn to see the Hutchinsons.	fn², p. 250 "Even when Coleridge finally separated from Wordsworth on 18 November, he could not bring himself to go directly south. Instead he leaped into a coach and shot back across the Pennines to Sockburn to see Dorothy and the Hutchinsons. He remained for two or three days, an oasis of happiness, flirting with eveyone, and working suddenly on a new ballad, to be called 'Love'...Coleridge later described this second visit to Sockburn as one of those 'spots of enchantment' where his poetry was renewed, and he fell in love with Sara Hutchinson." fn⁵, p. 88 "On 24 November, Coleridge was back in Sockburn with Sara Hutchinson, Mary and Dorothy, staying for a few days before he set off for London."
	November 26, 1799	Coleridge leaves Sockburn for London	fn², p. 253 "On 26 November he finally caught the all-night coach for London, and his new career." fn⁸, chapter II, p. 143 "Coleridge returned to England after an absence of fourteen mouths, and arrived in London the 27th November, 1799."
	December 1799	Coleridge settles in London to start writing for the Morning Post. Some examples of Coleridge's Morning Post articles (fn2) December 7, 1799 - a detailed analysis of the new French constitution. January 22, 1800 - a detailed study of one of Lord Grenville's papers. March 19, 1800 - a 3000-word profile of Prime Minister Pitt.	fn², p. 254 "Back in London he immediately took lodgings at 21 Buchingham Street, between the Thames and the Strand near the Morning Post offices, summoned Sara and Hartley to join him, and set to work with ferocious energy to establish himself as a jounalist. During the next five months he would wirte seventy-six articles or 'leading paragraphs' for Stuart, largely on foreigh affairs and constitution matters. His first peice, a brilliant and detailed analysis of the new French constitution proclaimed by Bonaparte, appeared promplty the following Saturday 7 December." fn², p. 258 "Rather surprisingley, Sara and Hartley also flourished a Buckingham Street, and a new domestic harmony - of a rather noisy kind - was established. Coleridge's regular departures for the newspaper office, as well as his regular income of four or five guineas a week, may have helped to soothe Sara, and she was pregnant again in January 1800."
		Wordsworth moves to Grasmere	fn¹⁷, p. 90 "It was in the autumn of 1799 that Coleridge first visited the Lake country in company with William and Joh wordsworth; and it was upon this occasion that Wordsworth decided to take up his abode in the Town-End Cottage at Grasmere, to which he migrated with his sister Dorothy in the December of the same year."
	March 2, 1800	Sara and Hartely leave London to stay with friends.	fn², p. 261 "The strain of newpaper work had also affected his relations with Sara. On 2 March, she and Hartely left to stay with friends, and Coleridge moved in with the Lambs at 36 Chapel Street, in Islington." fn⁵, p. 90 "On 2 March 1800 Sarah returned to Bristol. The experiment of living together again after such a long separation (they had not lived together for more than a few weeks since September 1798) had not been a success."
	April 2, 1800	Coleridge leaves the Morning Post after his four month assignment.	fn², p. 270 "…he left Chapel Street on 2 April and bounced north to the Lakes on a visit, as Lamb regretfully put it, 'to his God, Wordsworth'. As he travelled about for the next three weeks, the final sheets of Wallenstein were posted back to Lamb for correction. Wordsworth, Dorothy, John Wordworth and Mary Hutchinson were now established in the famous cottage at Town End, just outside Grasmere,...Coleridge remained with his friends until 2 May, walking all over the district looking for possible houses, among which he spotted the elegant shape of Greta Hall, perched on a little hill beneath Skiddaw, just north of Keswick."
	May 4, 1800	Coleridge returns to Bristol.	fn², p. 273 "On 4 May 1800 Coleridge hastened back to Bristol, collected Sara and Hartley and, basing himself at Poole's, began a final search for a possible house in the West Country. But it seems clear that his heart was already set upon the Lakes, with various auxiliary schemes to attract both Godwin and Humphry Davy northwards."..."Since Coleridge's departure for Germany in the autumn of 1798, she (Sara) had only lived with her restless husband for a few months at a time - the longest at Buckingham Street lasting but ten weeks - and the prospect of steady domestic happiness must have looked somewhat remote. Perhaps she saw in his lyrical descriptions of Greta Hall the best chance of putting down new roots in a house where he would be happy; and the expected child - due in September - held out fair promise of a renewed family life together. But, like Poole, she worried increasingly about the influence of Wordsworth, and the constant disruption of her husband's professional career that he seemed to produce."

	June 22, 1800	The STC, Sarah and Hartley arrive at the Wordsworth's	fn¹⁷, p. 21 "It was clear that they could not long be parted, and on 22 June, 1800, Dorothy notes in her journal: 'On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Coleridge and Hartley came. The day was very warm, we sailed to the foot of Loughrigg. They stayed with us three weeks.' " ed note: see June 29, 1800. fn² states they arrived at Grasmere on June 29th
	June 29, 1800	Coleridge, Sara and Hartley arrived at Wordsworth's home in Grasmere	fn², p. 275 "Coleridge 'arrived at Grasmere', as he put it, with Sara, Hartley and his customary comet's train of book-chests, on Sunday 29 June 1800. He had conveniently caught flu on the way, at Liverpool, and immediately retired to Wordsworth's back bedroom with 'a brace of swollen eyelids,' leaving Sara and Dorothy to sort out the ensuing chaos,..."
	July 24, 1800	STC, Sarah Coleridge and son David Hartley leave Grasmere and travel to Keswick, and move into Greta Hall which they had rented from Mr. Jackson for £42 per year STC writes second part of "Christabel"; "Lyrical Ballads", (2nd edition and published in January, 1801	fn², p. 277 "On 24 July Coleridge and his family finally left Grasmere, and travelled the fifteen miles northwards to Greta Hall, crossing over the high rolling pass of Dunmail Raise, along the western flank of Helvellyn, and down to Keswick on Derwent water, beneath the huge guardian shapes of Latrigg Fell and Skiddaw. Coleridge immediatley climbed to the roof, and sat writing letters to is friends. One was headed: 'From the leads on the housetop of Greta Hall, Keswick, Cumberland, at the present time in the occupancy and usufruct-possession of S. T. Coleridge, Esq., Gentleman-poet and Philosopher in a mist.' It described his position very well." Greta Hall by H. W. Howe, Daedalus Press, 1977, p. 10 records the occupation date as July 23, 1800 and the rent as £40 per year.
	August 29, 1800	Coleridge travels to Grasmere from Greta Hall. Leaves there on August 31 for Keswick.	fn², p. 281 "On 29 August (1800) Coleridge had a large section of Part Two (Christabel) completed, and with the manuscript in his pocket made a triumphant journey to Grasmere along the entire ridge of the Eastern Fells - crossing Great Dod, White Side, and Helvellyn, and slithering perilously down by Nethermost Pike to Dunmail Raise in the dark."...(p. 282) 'Dorothy (Wordsworth) recorded his arrival that night at Dove Cottage in her Journal. "At 11 o'clock Coleridge came when I was walking in the still clear moonshine. He came over Helvellyn. Wm was gone to bed and John also...'..."
	1800 Summer	The turning point	fn¹⁵, p. 88 "We are now approaching the turning-point, moral and physical, of Coleridge's career. The next few years determined not only his destiny as a writer but his life as a man. Between his arrival at Keswick in the summer of 1800 and his departure for Malta in the spring of 1804 that fatal change of constitution, temperament, and habits which governed the whole of his subsequent history had fully established itself."
	September 14, 1800	Sam's third son, Derwent Coleridge is born at Greta Hall, Keswick, Cumberland	fn², p. 282 "On 14 September (1800), Sara gave birth to a boy at half past ten in the evening. For once, Coleridge was present. His first impulse was to call him Bracy, after the minstrel in 'Christabel'. The child was very ill for several weeks, and he was finally christened Derwent, perhaps to appease the spirit of the place. Thereafter, as Coleridge noted, followed 'an interval, during which I travelled much.'..."
	October 4, 1800	Coleridge visits Dove Cottage again, this time for four days leaving there on the 7th.	fn², p. 284 "Dorothy's Journal records the susequent visit, over four days. On 4 October: 'Coleridge came in while we were at dinner very wet. - We talked till 12 o'clock. He had sate up all the night before writing Essays for the newspaper. - His youngest child had been very ill in convulsion fits. Exceedingly delighted with the 2nd part of Christabel.' On the 5th: "Coleridge read a second time Christabel - we had increasing pleasure. A delicious morning. Wm and I were employed all the morning in writing an addition to the preface. Wm went to bed very ill after working after dinner.' On the 6th: 'A rainy day. Coleridge intending to go but did not get off. We walked after dinner to Rydale. After tea read The Pedlar. Determined not to print Chiristabel with the LB.'..."
28	January 1801	Health breaks down Coleridge spends the winter in London	fn², p. 297 "In January 1801 Coleridge's health altogether collapsed, and for three months he retreated to the upper rooms of Greta Hall."
	June 1801	After a long bout of illness at Geta Hall, Coleridge was able to walk on the fells.	fn², p. 304 "By June he was back out on the fells, climbing over Easedale and seeing below the glimmering lake and church tower, 'places wherein To wander & wander for ever & ever.'…" "But real health had not returned - he relapsed continually with swollen leg joints, and agonising attacks of 'irregular gout', and the opium dosing continued. No serious work was being done apart from reading."
		Kendal Black Drop	fn¹⁵, p. 95 "…it seems tolerably certain that it was not till the spring of 1801, when the climate of the Lake country first began to tell unfavourably on his health, that the 'Kendal Black Drop' was taken. Possibly it may have been about the time (April 1801) when he wrote the letter to Southey which has been quoted above, and which, it will be remembered, contained 'so gloomy an account of his health.' " ed note: Kendal Black Drop was a drug based on opium. Named for Kendal in the Lake District (Wikipedia)
		Background to the ailment	fn^15,p. 95 (con't.) "How painfully ailing he was at this time we know from a variety of sources, from some of which we also gather that he must have been a sufferer in more or less serious forms from his boyhood upwards. Mr. Gillman, for instance, who speaks on this point with the twofold authority of confidant and medical expert, records a statement of Coleridge's to the effect that, as a result of such schoolboy imprudences as 'swimming over the New River in my clothes and remaining in them, full half the time from seventeen to eighteen was passed by me in the sick ward of Christ's Hospital, afflicted with jaundice and rheumatic fever.' From these indiscretions and their consequences 'maybe dated,' Mr. Gillman thinks, 'all his bodily sufferings in future life.' That he was a martyr to periodical attacks of rheumatism for some years before his migration to Keswick is a conclusion resting upon something more than conjecture. The Ode to the Departing Year (1796) was written, as he has himself
			told us, under a severe attack of rheumatism in the head. In 1797 he describes himself in ill health, and as forced to retire on that account to the 'lonely farmhouse between Porlock and London on the Exmoor confines of Somerset andDevonshire,' where Kubla Khan was written."
	July 1801	Coleridge leaves Greta Hall for Asra.	fn², p. 305 "In early July, an unsolicited advance of 50 suddenly arrived from Josiah Wedgwood, with which he was able to pay off his 'Keswick Bills, rent, etc', and the household finances were set fair again until Christmas. Almost immediately Coleridge packed his bag, departing not for the Azores but for Asra." "Durham was only eight miles from George Hutchinson's new farm at Bishop Middleham, where Asra was staying. Coleridge arrived at Middleham on 16 July, and after desultory visits to Durham, concocted a plan to go and stay with her other brother Tom, at his farm at Gallow Hill, near Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast,...He and Asra rode the sixty miles together on horseback, arriving on 31 July and remaining for ten days."
	August 9, 1801	Coleridge returns to Keswick.	fn², p. 309 "Coleridge reluctantly quitted Gallow Hill on 9 August, (and) returned to Keswick, carefully timing his arrival to coincide with the long-promised visit from Southey and his family. The presene of Edith Southey at Greta Hall evidently soothed Mrs Coleridge, and in the holiday atmosphere of boating and walking the worst of the domestic confrontation between Coleridge and his wife was at least postponed."
	1801 Summer	Southey encourages Coleridge	fn¹⁵, p. 101 "From the summer of 1801, at any rate, his malaise, both of mind and body, appears to have grown apace. Repeated letters from Southey allow us to see how deeply concerned he was at this time about his friend's condition. Plans for foreigh travel are discussed between them, and Southey endeavours in vain to spur his suffering and depressed correspondent to 'the assertions of his supremacy' in some new literary work."
29	October 21, 1801	Coleridge's 29th birthday	fn², p. 311 On the issue of his 29th birthday, Coleridge said, "who on earth can say that without a sigh!"
	November 16, 1801	Coleridge returns to London	fn², p. 312 "By 16 November 1801, Coleridge was back in London, occuping bachelor found for him by Stuart, at 10 King Street, between Covent Garden and Fleet Street. Flinging himself into the oblivion of newspaper work, he immediately dashed off three long and brilliant articles on the newly formed Cabinet of Addington's anministration." fn⁶, p. 13 "He left Keswick on 10 November (as did his guests, the Wordsworths)."
	April 4, 1802	Dejection written	fn¹⁵, p. 96 "Thus much is, moreover, certain, that whatever were Coleridge's health and habits during the first two years of his residence at Keswick, his career as a poet--that is to say, as a poet of the first order--was closed some months before that period had expired. The ode entitled Dejection, to which reference has so often been made, was written on the 4th of April 1802, …"
	February 29, 1802	Coleridge left London to travel north to Gallow Hill, the home of Tom Wordsworth, arriving there on March 2.	fn², p. 316 Hearing that Asra was ill, he "hurried north to Gallow Hill…where he remained to ten days, helping Mary and Tom to nurse her."
	March 15, 1802	Coleridge arrives at Greta Hall but only stays four days.	fn², p. 317 "He remained at Greta Hall for just four days, and then walked over the windswept Dunmail Raise to spend the weekend at Grasmere. He arrived at dusk on Friday 19 March,…During the weekend they talked of Wordsworth's marriage…Then Coleridge returned to Greta Hall where the Wordsworths promised to join him the following week...on 28 March..."
	1802	"Dejection" published
30	December 23, 1802	Sam's first and only daughter, Sara Coleridge is born at Greta Hall, Keswick, Cumberland	fn⁴, p. 209 "Sara Coleridge, as the child was actually named, was born on 23 December 1802. As in 1796 when Hartley was born, Coleridge was on his way home but missed the birth;…"
	Decenber 24, 1802	Coleridge and Wedgwood arrive at Greta Hall	fn⁶, p. 17 "He (Coleridge) calls at Dove Cottage on 24 December: 'C. came this morning with Wedgwood....He looked well. We had to tell him of the Birth of his little Girl, born yesterday.' He had also managed to miss the birth of Hartley in 1796, and the death of Berkeley while in Germany; but he was at home when Derwent was born at Greta Hall in 1800." fn², p. 341 "News of Sara's premature labour-pains finally spun him north again. Coleridge and Wedgwood arrived at Greta Hall on Christmas Eve, just in time to miss the birth of a daughter - now his third surviving child - another Sara. 'I had never thought of a Girl as a possible event,' he told Southey, 'however I bore the sex with great Fortitude.' " ed note: Sara Coleridge (ne' Fricker) was born Sarah Fricker. She was called Sara by Coleridge because apparently he disliked the spelling of Sarah.
	January 20, 1803	Coleridge is off again.	fn⁶, p. 17 "But he was soon off again. He started 1803 badly by getting caught in a storm on Kirkstone Pass, but leaving Keswick on the 20th he travels via London and reaches the Wedgwoods by the end of the month."
	January 1803	Coleridge at Southey's in Bristol	fn¹⁵, p. 104 "In January 1803 we find him staying with Southey at Bristol, 'suffering terribly from the climate, and talking of going abroad.' a week later he is at Stowey, planning schemes, not destined to be realised, of foreign travel with Wedgwood. Returning again to Keswick, he started, after a few months' quiescence, on 15th August, is company with Wordsworth and his sister, for a tour in Scotland, but after a fortnight he found himself too ill to proceed." ed note: see August 15th below
	February 1803	Coleridge still traveling	fn⁶, p. 17 " 'For the last 5 months of my Life I seem to have annihilated the present Tense with regard to place - you can never say, where is he? - but only - where was he? where will he be? From Keswick - to London - Bristol - Pembroke - Birmingham - Manchester/Keswick - Etruria - Bristol - & in a few days to Blandford - probably, Stowey, Exeter - possibly, the Lands's End.' "
	Spring 1803	Coleridge visits Poole, Southey and Josiah Wedgwood.	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xiv fn⁴, p. 215 "Coleridge spent the spring of 1803 toing and froing between Bristol, where he stayed with Southey, Nether Stowey, where he was Poole's guest, and Gunville, Josiah Wedgwood's house in Dorset,..."
	April or May 1803	Coleridge returns to Keswick.	fn⁴, p. 216 "By May Coleridge was back in Keswick after an absence of four months, having caught flu in the mail coach on the way." fn⁶, p. 17 "After an absence of eight weeks Coleridge returned to Keswick on 8 April and writes on 20 May that he has been ill ever since."
	July to October 1803	William Hazlitt comes to Greta Hall to put some finishing touches on a portrait that he was doing of Coleridge	fn² , p. 349 "…during July, executed 'masterly' portraints of borth poets,…" (Coleridge and Wordsworth) "Hazlitt remained in the district from July till October,…"
	August 15, 1803	Dorothy and William Wordsworth "set off with Coleridge on their tour into Scotland…". Before tour ends, Coleridge leaves obstensibly to return home because he was sick but tours Scotland on his own..	fn⁴, p. 217 "…he (Coleridge) was planning a walking tour of Scotland with Wordsworth and Dorothy. As usual with Coleridge, ill health did not stop him from undertaking long journeys on foot; he felt much worse when he sat at home thinking about work and doing none, swallowing opium, and quarrelling with Sara. Before he left on 15 August,..." fn⁴, p. 218 "...Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Dorothy set off for Scotland 'in an Irish-Car and one horse', as Sara Coleridge reported to Southey...The journey was not a success, not so much because of Coleridge's health, for despite feeling dreadful he proved once more a doughty pedestrian, but because he and Wordsworth did not get on....Coleridge soon parted from the other two and set off alone from Arrochar to Glencoe,...Undaunted, he set out for Fort William, then Inverness, before turning south to Perth and Edinbugh. At Perth he heard of the death of little Margaret Southey and wrote in sympathy to Southey, who was now in Keswick."
			fn², p. 352 "They proceeded northwards in increasing rain and gloom, through Carlisle..., Gretna Green, Dumfires, the Falls of Clyde, Glasgow, and the bonny banks of Loch Lommond,..."
		1803 "Lyrical Ballads" (3rd edition)	fn², p. 353 "As before in Germany, they decided to split up, after crossing Loch Lomond on the ferry to East Tarbet, Before they parted at Arrochar on 30 August, Coleridge recorded a Scottish scene that may well have inspired one of Wordworth's loveliest lyrics, 'the Solitary Reaper'.... The plan was that Coleridge should send his bag back, and return south on foot to Edinburgh... In fact he was much happier, immediately deciding to strike north again along the line of the Scottish forts to Inverness,...Fort William...Perth... By 15 September Coleridge was back at Greta Hall but not before he had clambered up the crags beneath Arthur's Seat above Edinburgh..."
	September 7, 1803	Robert Southey and Edith move to Greta Hall, Keswick with the Coleridge's	fn⁴, p. 215 "As it turned out, Southey did make his home with his wife and her sister Sara at Great Hall. In September 1803 the baby Margaret died, and Edith wanted to be with her sister. The Southeys moved in, and sooner rather than later Southey found himself responsible not only for his own family, but also for Coleridge's." fn⁵, p. 133 "On 7 September while Coleridge was still away in Scotland and Sarah on her own at Greta Hall, the Southeys arrived. It was the first time Sarah had seen her sister Edith in two years, and the circumstances were extremely delicate - Edith's first child, Margaret, had died a few weeks earlier. Letters were despatched northwards to Coleridge somewhere in Scotland and word finally reached him at Perth. He wrote back to Southey straight away that he could not 'chit chat with Scotchamen while you are at Keswick childless' and set off south immediately." fn⁵, p. 135 "They (the Southeys) arrived at Greta Hall on 7 September 1803, little realising that they had come to stay."
			fn¹⁵, p. 104 "He arrived at Greta Hall on 7th September 1803, and from time to time during the next six months his correspondence gives us occasional glimpses of Coleridge's meancholy state." ed note: note the difference between this quote and fn⁵,p. 133 above stating "...Coleridge was still away in Scotland...".
	Mid September, 1803	Coleridge returns to Keswick.	fn⁴, p. 220 "By mid-September Coleridge was back in Keswick,…" see August 15, 1803 above, fn², p. 353
	Autumn 1803	Coleridge stays in Keswick for the fall	fn², p. 355 "With Southey and Edith established at Greta Hall (temporarily as they supposed) Coleridge's path of escape was suddenly clear. But he lingered through the last three months of autumn, consoling Southey [about the death of his daughter] with many walks over the fells and through Borrowdale."
31	December 20, 1803	Coleridge leaves Greta Hall.	fn⁶, p. 20 "On 20 December Coleridge left Greta Hall for nearly two years. He had at last decided to move to a warmer climate, and after many negotiations over a suitable post, difficulties of transport and financial arrangements, he finally sailed for Malta on 9 April." fn⁴, p. 222 "By 20 December Coleridge was with the Wordsworths at Grasmere, intending to go straight on to London, '& thence to Ottery' to try to borrow money from his brothers for his foreign journey. In fact he did not leave Grasmere until 14 January...Once in London at the end of January, Coleridge took up again with his usual acquaintances. He lodged in Westminster with Poole,..."
			fn¹⁵, p. 105 "From Grasmere he went to Liverpool, where he spent a pleasant week with his old Unitarian friend, Dr. Crompton, and arrived in London at the close of 1803."
	End of January 1804	Coleridge in London	see fn⁴, p. 222 above
	April 2, 1804	Coleridge leaves England for Malta	fn¹⁵, p. 105 "…,and on 2d April 1804, he sailed from England in the Speedwell, dropping anchor sixteen days later in Valetta harbour." ed note: see descrepency in travel time and arrival date to Malta in fn⁴, p. 226 below
	April 9, 1804	Another date given for leaving England for Malta	fn⁴, p. 225 "He was setting off ill, depressed and alone on a journey whick held many hazards, not least the state of war which made a military convoy a necessary protection for the Speedwell, which finally set sail with a fair wind on 9 April 1804."
	May 18, 1804	Coleridge arrives in Malta.	fn⁴, p. 226 "On 18 May, nearly six weeks after setting out, he arrived in Malta, having suffered terrible bouts of seasickness and agonizing constipation in the last days of the journey." fn⁸, chapter III, p. 167 " 'Friday afternoon, four o'clock, April 18,1804. The Speedwell dropped anchor in the harbour of Malta: one of the finest in the world, the buildings surrounding it on all sides, of a neat ever-new-looking sand-free-stone. Some unfinished, and in all, the windows placed backward, looked like Carthage when Æneas visited it-or a burnt out place.' "
	July 6, 1804	Coleridge moves into the Governor's Palace	fn⁴, p. 228 "Coleridge moved into the Governor's Palace on 6 July in high hopes of getting a salaried secretarial post under Ball. Indeed he was already active in prparing dispatches to London, and was soon Private Secretary to Sir Alexander Ball, at £25 a month, rising to Public Secretary in January 1805 on the death of the previous incumbent, Alexander Macaulay."
	August 10, 1804	Coleridge visits Sicily	fn⁴, p. 228 "On 10 August Coleridge visited Sicily to prepare reports for Sir Alexander Ball and to see the sights as a privileged tourist. …he climbed Mount Etna on 19 August."
32	November, 1804	Coleridge returns to Malta	fn⁴, p. 229 "Coleridge had returned to Maltra from Sicily in November 1804…"
	January 18, 1805	Coleridge is appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta	fn⁴, p. 228 "Coleridge moved into the Governor's Palace on 6 July in high hopes of getting a salaried secretarial post under Ball. Indeed he was already active in preparing dispatches to London, and was soon Private Secretary to Sir Alexander Ball, at £25 a month,..."
	July 10, 1805	Thomas Wedgewood dies	fn¹⁵, p. 112 "His friend and patron, Mr. Thomas Wedgwood, had died while he was in Malta; but the full pension of £150 per annum bestowed upon him by the two brothers jointly continued to be paid to him by Josiah, the senior. Coleridge, however, had landed in England in ignorance of his patron's death. He had wholly neglected to keep up any correspondence with the Wedgwoods during his stay in Malta, and though 'dreadfully affected' by it, as Mr. Poole records, he seems to have allowed nearly a year to elapse before communicating with the surviving brother."
	September 23, 1805	Leaves Malta.	fn⁴, p. 233 "On th 23rd of that month (September) he set off, planning to sail from Messina to Naples, then travel on to Rome and Venice. Travel was slow, and Coleridge stopped to enjoy the hospitality of the consul in Sicily, By mid-October he was poised to leave Messina, but his proposed overland route through Italy was made impossible by new victories of Bonaparte."
	Septermber 27, 1805	Arrives in Syracuse	fn⁸, chapter II "On the arrival of the new secretary at Malta, Mr. Coleridge left it, September 27, 1805, and after a day's voyage, arrived at Syracuse. He remained in Sicily a short time only, for he was eager to visit the "eternal city" (Rome,) in which he staid some months."
	October 15, 1805	Coleridge travels from Messina to Naples.	fn⁴, p. 233 "On the night of 15 October, while still in Messina,...Coleridge travelled, perhaps with British troops, to Naples, arriving on 20 November."
33	December 15, 1805	Arrives in Naples	fn¹⁵, p. 109 "At Naples, which he reached on the 15th of December, he made a longer stay,…"
	December 25, 1805	Coleridge sets out for Rome.	fn⁴, p. 233 "On Christmas Day 1805 Coleridge set out for Rome,…"
	May 18, 1806	Coleridge leaves Rome.	fn⁴, p. 234 "On 18 May 1806 Coleridge finally left Rome…"
	June 7, 1806	Coleridge arrives at Leghorn	fn⁴, p. 234 "At Leghorn on 7 June, while waiting to board a ship,…"
	June 23, 1806	Coleridge sails for home.	fn⁴, p. 235 "On 23 June he and Russell sailed for home on the American ship the Gosport."
	August 17, 1806	STC returns to England	fn⁴, p. 235 "He arrived, more dead than alive, on English soil on 17 August." fn¹⁵, p. 111 "After an absence of two years and a half Coleridge arrived in England in August 1806. That his then condition of mind and body was a profoundly miserable one, and that he himself was acutely conscious of it,..."
			fn¹⁵, p. 112 "His history from the day of his landing in England in August 1806 till the day when he entered Mr. Gillman's house in 1816 is one long and miserable story of self-indulgence and self- reproach, of lost opportunities, of neglected duties, of unfinished undertakings. His movements and his occupation for the first year after his return are not now traceable with exactitude, but his time was apparently spent partly in London and partly at Grasmere and Keswick."
	October 9, 1806	Coleridge leaves London for Keswick	fn⁴, p. 237 "At last Coleridge set off from London on 9 October, but he proceeded indirectly by way of a visit to the Clarksons at Bury St. Edmunds. From Bury he paid a brief visit to Cambridge, the first since he had failed to return to complete his degree twelve years before."
34	October 26, 1806	Coleridge arrives at Kendall	fn⁴, p. 237 "He saw the Wordsworths and Sara Hutchinson before they departed to spend the winter as guests of the Beaumonts at Coleorton in Leicestershire."
35	Late October or early November, 1806	Coleridge finally arrives home at Keswick	fn⁴, p. 237 "The meeting with the Wordsworths seems to have given Coleridge the courage to go home to Keswick at last, with the now irrevocable intention of demanding a separation."
	Shortly before Chirstmas, 1806	Coleridge shows up at Coleorton with Hartley	fn⁴, p. 238 Coleridge writes a Christmas letter to his wife Sara about their son Hartley "'All here [at Coleorton] love him most dearly: and your name sake [Sara Hutchinson] takes upon her all the duties of his Mother & darling Friend with all the Mother's love & fondness. He is very fond of her.' "
	Chistmas 1806 to April 1807	Coleridge remains at Coleorton with Hartley	fn⁴, p. 239 "Coleridge and Hartley remained at Coleorton with the Wordsworths until April 1807"
	April and May 1807	STC in London	fn⁴, p. 242 "Coleridge had spent some of April and May in London; in June he was in Nether Stowey with Sara and the children, all of them guests of Poole."
	June 1807	At Nether Stowey with Sara and the children	see April and May 1807
	August 1807	Coleridge meets DeQuincey at Stowey	fn⁴, p. 244 "In August 1807 deQuincey was content to meet Coleridge…"
	1807	Coleridge in Bristol (meets DeQuincey), Nether Stowey and London	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xv
34-35	August to November 1807	Coleridge stayed in Bristol	fn⁴, p. 244 "Coleridge told Davy he would be in London by the end of September. Instead he stayed in Bristol until late November, while Sara and the children, their expected visit to Ottery thwarted, returned to Keswick in October with the gallant De Quincey as their companion"
35	November 1807 to July 1808	Coleridge in London. Lectures at the Royal Instituition Writes for the Morning Post primarily around 1800	fn⁴, p. 244 - 249 fn¹⁵, p. 119 "…in November 1807, and in the previous month De Quincey had been able to render Coleridge a minor service, while at the same moment gratifying a long cherished wish of his own. Mrs. Coleridge was about to return with her children to Keswick, but her husband, not yet master of this £300 windfall, and undoubtedly at his wits' end for money, was arranging for a course of lectures to be delivered at the Royal Institution early in the ensuing year, and could not accompany them. De Quincey offered accordingly to be their escort, and duly conducted them to Wordsworth's house, thus making the acquaintance of the second of his two great poetical idols within a few months of paying his first homage to the other."
	February 1808	Coleridge lives at the Courier office.	fn¹⁵, p. 119 "In February 1808 Coleridge again took up his abode in London at his old free quarters in the Courier office, and began the delivery of a promised series of sixteen lectures on Poetry and the Fine Arts. 'I wish you could see him,' again writes Poole to Wedgwood, 'you would pity and admire. He is much improved, but has still less voluntary power than ever. Yet he is so committed that I think he must deliver these lectures.' (p. 120) Coleridge's lectures on Poetry and the Fine Arts were confused, ill arraanged, and generally disappointing to the last degree. Sometimes it was not even possible to bring the horse to the water. Charles Lamb writes to Manning on the 20th of February 1808 (early days indeed) that Coleridge had only delivered two lectures, and that though 'two more were intended, he did not come.' "
			later on p. 120 "…what De Quincey has to say of the lectures themselves when they did by chance get delivered is no less melancholy. 'The lecturer's appearance,' he says, 'was generally that of a man struggling with pain and overmastering illness.' "
	May 1808	Lectures end	fn¹⁵, p. 123 "From the close of this series of lectures in the month of May 1808 until the end of the year it is impossible to trace Coleridge's movements or even to determine the nature of his occupation with any apporach to exactitude. The probability is, however, that he remained in London at his lodgings in the Courier office, and that he supported himself by rendering assistance in various ways to Mr. Daniel Stuart. We know nothing of him, however, with certainty until we find him once more at the Lakes in the early part of the year 1809, but not in his own home." ed. note: see fn⁴ quote in July 1808
	July 1808	Coleridge leaves London	fn⁴, p. 249 "Having recovered from the worst of his illness, Coleridge left London in early July 1808 to visit the Clarksons at Bury St. Edmunds."
	September 1808	Coleridge visits with the Wordsworths at Allan Bank in the Lake District.	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xv fn⁴, p. 249 "At the beginning of September he arrived in Grasmere, where the Wordsworths had moved into a larger house, Allan Bank, handing over Dove Cottage to De Quincey…The arrangement was that Coleridge would live with the Wordsworths, and that Hartley and Derwent, now at Ambleside School, would visit there every weekend."
36	Fall 1808 to Spring 1809	Coleridge while at Allan Bank worked on "The Friend" with William and Mary Wordsworth, Sara Hutchinson, Dorothy Wordsworth and De Quincey	fn⁴, p. 249 "In spite of such moments of angry and jealous love, Coleridge was happier and more energetic than he had been for months, if not years. He sought medical advice about his opium habit, and was able to reduce the dose temporarily. And he was planning a new literary venture, one which did, despite delays and setbacks, come to something."
	June 8,1809 to March 10,1810	Coleridge published "The Friend"	fn⁴, pp. 251 - 252 "…despite problems with paper and printing, and the inevitable money difficulties, Coleridge did get started. What is more, he produced his paper from June 1809 to March 1810 with only occasional contributions from others such as Wordsworth and Southey." fn⁸, chapter III, p. 187 "The first number, printed on stamped paper, was dated June 8th, 1809." "The work ceased at the 27th number, March 15th, 1810. As is usually the case when authors become their own publishers, there was a pecuniary loss; but as long as printing lasts, it must remain a record of his powers."
			fn¹⁵, p. 123-124 "Wordsworth had removed from his former abode at Grasmere to Allan Bank, a larger house some three-quarters of a mile distant, and there Coleridge took up his residence, more, it would seem, as a permanent inmate of his friend's house than as a guest. The specific cause of this migration from Greta Hall to Allan Bank does not appear, but all the accessible evidence, contemporary and subsequent, seems to point to the probability that it was the result of a definite break-up of Coleridge's own home. He continued, at any rate, to reside in Wordsworth's house during the whole seven months of his editorship of the Friend,...and we shall see that upon its failure he did not resume his residence at Greta Hall, but quitted the Lake country at once and for ever."
	August 1, 1809	First of the Friend publications	fn¹⁵, p. 126 "Its first number appeared on 1st August 1809,…"
37	November 4, 1809	Coleridge's mother, Anne Coleridge (ne' Bowden) dies at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire	Public domain, and fn⁴, p. 256 "Coleridge did not visit his mother, who died on 4 November. Nor did he attend her funeral. His brother James commented on George receiving no answer to his letters asking Coleridge to come to Devon: 'It is strange, passing strange, but such men there are. My brother Sam will be admirable, in my opinion, but neither respectable, nor venerable.' As it happened, Coleridge's mother-in-law, Mrs Fricker, had died only a few days before his mother..."
	1809	Coleridge and Sarah separate	fn¹⁴, p. 117 "Strange had been the trials in the life of the mother in the alienation of her husband, and his long separation from her; for the last twenty-five years of his life they had lived wholly apart." ed. note: 25 years before STC's death would put the separation sometime in 1809
	March 1810	Friend ceases	fn¹⁵, p. 127 "It (the Friend) lingered on till its twenty-eighth number, and expired, unlike the Watchman, without any farewell to its friends, in the third week of March 1810."
	May, 1810	Coleridge at Keswick to October	fn⁴, p. 257 "Coleridge was in Keswick from early May 1810, having become once more friendly with his wife, at least as far as their children were cocerned."
	October 1810	Coleridge leaves Keswick for London arriving October 26	fn⁴, p. 259 "…in October 1810 he [Coleridge] left Keswick in the company of Wordsworth's friend Basil Montagu, and on their arrival in London Montagu informed him how the Wordsworth felt about him. The effect was shattering to Coleridge,…"
38-39	October 1810 to November 1811	Coleridge lives in London at various places: Hudson's Hotel, Covent Garden, John Morgan's home in Hammersmith, Brown's Coffee House off Fleet Street	fn⁴, p. 265 "Not much is known about Coeridge's exact movements to and from Morgan's house between November 1810 and March 1811." fn¹⁵, p. 135 "…on reaching London in the summer of 1810 Coleridge became the guest of the Montagus, and that, after some months' residence with them, he left as the immediate result of some difference with his host which was never afterwards composed. ... But at some time or other, towards the close probably of 1810, or in the early months of 1811, Coleridge quitted Mr. Montagu's house for that of Mr. John Morgan, a companion of his early Bristol days, and a common friend of his and Southey's; and here, at No. 7 Portland Place, Hammersmith, he was residing when for the second time, he resolved to present himself to the London public in the capacity of lecturer."
	March to December 1811	Coleridge writes for the "Courier"	fn⁴, p. 266 "In 1811 he cecame once more closely involved with politics, for Stuart at last prevailed on him to repay his patience and regular 'loans' with some copy for the Courier. Between March and December 1811 Coleridge wrote a staggering ninety articles for Stuart. though he was now conservative in his views, he was not, and never would be, a complete party man." fn¹⁵, p. 136 "A couple of months before the commencement of this course, viz. in September 1811, Coleridge seems to have entered into a definite journalistic engagement with his old editor, Mr. Daniel Stuart, then the proprietor of the Courier." fn¹⁵, p. 138 "...it is beyond dispute that his regular contributions to the Courier in 1811-12 are not only vastly inferior to his articles of a dozen years before in the Morning Post but fall sensibly short of the level of the letters of 1809,..."
39	November 18,1811	Coleridge delivers first lecture series in London	fn¹, p. lxxxiv "The lectures were to be on Shakespeare and Milton in illustration of the Principles of Poetry, and there application as grounds of Criticism to the most popular works of later English Poets…" "The first lecture was delivered on the day appointed, 18th November and the others followed in due succession, on Mondays and Thursdays, until January 27, 1812 - seventeen in all." fn⁴, p. 269 "Both [Henry Crabb] Robinson and Collier junior were prominent in helping Coleridge to arriange a new set of lectures, which were given at the London Philosophical Society's rooms off Fleet Street between November 1811 and January 1812...(p. 270), The first lecture was given on Monday 18 November 1811...There were fifteen lectures, delivered on Mondays and Thursdays...(p. 276) The series was counted a success. for the last lecture, on 27 January [1812], 'the room was crowded' ".
	February 1812	Coleridge returns to Greta Hall, Keswick	fn¹, p. lxxxiv "Immediately after this (the lectures) Coleridge set off for Greta hall, picking up on the way his two boys at Ambleside. During the weeks he remained with Mrs. Coleridge, she received many letters and messages from Miss Wordsworth begging her to urge Coleridge to write to her, and on no account to leave the Lake country without seeing them. It was all in vain." fn⁴, p. 277 "A week or so after the lectures finished, Coleridge wrote to his wife to say that he was coming north on the Liverpool Mail. He was eagerly expected at Keswick,..."
	April 1812	Coleridge returns to London at the end of April	fn¹, p. lxxxiv "It was probably a hope of saving something out of the wreck of Brown's estate that caused Coleridge to take Penrith on his way back to London, but it hardly excuses him for staying there for a whole month without communication with any of his friends...before he reappeared in town towards the end of April." fn⁴, p. 278 "By the middle of April 1812 he was back in London, never again to return to the Lake District to which he had been so lovingly lured by Wordsworth in 1800."
	April 1812	Courier contributions end	fn¹⁵, p. 139 "The series of contributions extends from September of 1811 until April of the following year, and appears to have nearly come to a premature and abrupt close in the intermediate July, when an article written by Coleridge in strong opposition to the proposed reinstatement of the Duke of York in the command-in-chief was, by ministerial influence, suppressed before publication."
	May, 1812	Reconciliation with Wordsworth	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xv (NOTE: previous entry states Coleridge returned to London by the end of April) fn⁴, p. 263 "Many friends became involved [with the break in friendship with Wordsworth], and the break was finally mended in spring 1812, when Wordsworth came to London to have it out with Coleridge, with Crabb Robinson acting a patient go-between...He never again felt the old warmth towards Wordsworth." See also p. 279, first full paragraph.
40	January 23,1813	"Remorse"reopens at Drury Lane	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xv fn¹, lxxxvi "All accounts which have come down to us describe the performance as, on the whole, a great success. The best evidence, however, is the fact that it ran for twenty nights, and that Coleridge received for his share £400…"
	May 12, 1813	After a one week delay, Coleridge starts the third set of six lectures in London	fn⁴, p. 280 "Wordsworth also attended some of Coleridge's lectures, which began, not on 12 May as advertised, but a week later because of the assassination of the Prime Minsister, Spencer Perceval, in the House of Commons on 11 May."
	1813 Fall	Robert Southey appointed Poet Laureate	Appointed sometime in the Fall of 1813
41	October 1813 - 1814	Coleridge Lectures in Bristol on the French Revolution, Milton, Napoleon, etc.	fn⁴, p. 285 "…October 1813 [Coleridge] set off to raise money in Bristol, where the Morgans had lived until 1808 and had many friends…Cottle, Wade, Eslin and Poole. He manfully gave eight of his literary lectures again in the city in which he had made his glorious debut as a lecturer. But under the unaccustomed effort and assumptions of responsibility his health broke down."
	April 1814	Coleridge gives more lectures in Bristol	fn⁴, p. 287 "Somehow Coleridge climbed out of the pit. He gave more lectures in Bristol in April 1814, a set of six on Milton and Cervantes… He also gave, on 26 April, the first of three political lectures on the rise of the French Revolution,…"
	1814	Remorse performed in Bristol	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xv
	1814	STC under the care of Dr. Daniel of opium addiction	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xv
42-43	December 1814 to April 1816	STC moves to Calne in Wiltshire with the Morgans	fn⁴, p. 288 "...from December 1814 to April 1816, at Calne in Wiltshire, where he lived with the financially restored Morgans
	1815	Remorse performed in Calne	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvi
43	April 16, 1816 May 25, 1816	Moves in with Dr. Gillman and his wife who try to control his addiction. http://english.washcoll.edu/kiplin_hall/thepoets.html says STC moved on May 25	fn⁴, p. 297 "In the same month [April] he approached an apothecary-surgeon in Highgate, James Gillman, asking to be taken into his home as a paying guest for a month, so that his opium-taking could be medically supervised…On this basis Coleridge moved in with Gilman and his family, and stayed with them for the rest of his life."
44	1817	"Biographia Literaria" (July 1817), "Zapolya", "Sibylline Leaves" published	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvi
45	1818	Writes two pamphlets in support of Peel's Bill against child-labour "The Friend" revised and enlarged, "Treatise on Method" published. STC gives three courses of lectures (on poetry and philosophy)	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvi fn⁴, p. 320 "(Coleridge) decided to lecture once more as a means of making money, since, despite his recent flurry of publications, he had earned very little from them,… The course was given at the rooms of the London Philosophical Society in Fleur-de-Luce Court, off Fleet Street, between 27 January and 13 March 1818."
	January 1818	Lecture series in London	fn¹⁵, p. 160 "In the month of January 1818 Coleridge once more commenced the delivery of a course of lectures in London." fn¹⁵, p. 161 "These lectures, says Mr. Gillman, were from Coleridge's own account more profitable than any he had before given, though delivered in an unfavourable situation; a lecture-room in Flower de Luce Court, which, however, being near the Temple, secured to him the benefit--if benefit it were--of a considerable number of law students among his auditors. It was the first time that his devoted guardian had ever heard him in public, and he reports the significant fact that though Coleridge lectured from notes, which he had carefully made, 'it was obvious that his audience were more delighted when putting his notes aside, he spoke extempore...' " ed not: see December 14, 1818 below
46	November 18, 1818	Coleridge sees portrait of his daughter Sara now sixteen	fn⁴, p. 326 "On 3 November 1818 Coleridge was introduced in a circumspect way to a portrait of his daughter, now nearly sixteen,…the daughter he had not seen since 1812."
	December 1818	Hartley Coleridge graduates from Merton College, Oxford	fn⁴, p. 326 "In December 1818 Hartley Coleridge graduated. He took a second class degree…"
	December 14 1818 to March 29, 1819	Coleridge give fourteen lectures in London.	fn⁴, p. 327 "Coleridge's much increased activity now that he was established at the Gillman's continued with his embarking in December 1818 on two sets of lectures at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on the Strand. He gave six on Shakespeare,… The larger of the two courses of lectures given by Coleridge was philosophjical. He gave fourteen lectures, beginning on 14 December 1818 and ending on 29 March 1819." p. 329 "Coleridge made little from his lectures. While continuing the philosophical course in February and March 1819, he commenced yet another short course, of seven lectures, on literature from Spenser and Shakespeare to Milton. It was his final effort of the kind. He was exhausted, and so probably was his audience." fn⁸, chapter IV, p. 333 "Syllabus Of The Course"...p. 335 - 336 "In his lectures he was brilliant, fluent, and rapid; his words seemed to flow as from a person repeating with grace and energy some delightful poem. If, however, he sometimes paused, it was not for the want of words, but that he was seeking the most appropriate, or their most logical arrangement."

	April 1819	Hartley Coleridge appointed to a Fellowship at Oriel College	fn⁴, p. 326 Hartley Coleridge "whose brilliance was recognized at Oxford, was appointed to a Fellowship at Oriel College. Both parents though severally, glowed with pride."
47	April 1820	Derwent visits with his father	fn⁴, p. 338 'Poor Derwent, about to start his own university career at last, had only recently renewed his acquaintance with his father, visiting him at Highgate in April 1820 for the first time since March 1812, when he had been eleven years old."
48	1821	Coleridge still at Highgate
49	1822	Coleridge's "Thursday evening class" begins	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvii
	1822	Hartley sees his father for the last time	fn⁴, 370 "Hartley was Coleridge's Nemesis. He never wrote to, or saw, his father again, having last seen him in London in 1822."
50	November 1822	Hartley Coleridge joins staff at Ambleside School	fn⁴, p. 345 "Hartley did join the staff of Ambleside School in November 1822."
	January 3, 1823	Sara Coleridge and her mother visit Highgate	fn⁴, p. 347 "In January 1823 Sara arrived in Highgate with her mother on a long awaited visit to the father she hardly knew. She and her mother left Keswick in November 1822, proceeding southwards in leisurely fashion, staying on the way with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, with Derwent in Cambridge, and with the Clarksons at Playford in Essex. On 3 January they arrived at the Gillmans' house."
	January 5, 1823	Sara Coleridge at Highgate meets her cousins.	fn⁴, p. 348 "On that day Coleridge's nephews John Taylor and Henry Nelson Coleridge visited Highgate and met their cousin for the first time. Henry and Sara fell in love, and by the time she left London in early March they were already secretly engaged. Coleridge disapproved of the marriage of first cousins,..."
	February 1823	Sara and Mrs. Coleridge (Sarah) spend 5 weeks as guests of John Coleridge (John Taylor, Coleridge's nephew) in London	fn⁴, p. 350 "Sara and Mrs Coleridge spent five weeks as guests of John Coleridge and wis wife in Bloomsbury before leaving London on 5 March for a visit to the Ottery Coleridges."
	May 1, 1823	Coleridge attends a party at his nephew John Taylor Coleridge in Bloomsbury	fn⁴, p. 350 "At John's party of 1 May Coleridge was once more 'in great force'. This time the other guests were none other than Colonel James and his wife [Frances Duke]. Henry was delighted to report the success of this meeting, the first between Coleridge and his older brother for many years."
	Autumn 1823	Coleridge in Ramsgate, Kent with Mrs. Gillman	fn⁴, p. 354 "While he and Mrs Gillman were in Ramsgate in the autumn of 1823, Gillman had moved house to No. 3, The Grove, Highgate, the house in which Coleridge spent the rest of his life."
51	1824	Coleridge elected FRSL (Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature), granted an annuity of £100	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvii
	April 1824	Wordsworth visits Coleridge	fn⁴, p. 355 "In April Wordsworth came on his usual spring visit to London, and the poets dined together again at the Monkhouses' "
52	November 29, 1824	Coleridge on holiday in Ramsgate	fn⁴, p. 357 "On 29 November 1824, …Coleridge was again on holiday in Ramsgate with Mrs Gillman,…"
	May 1825	"Aide to Reflection" published	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvii see also fn⁴, p. 346 and 361
	May 18, 1825	Lectures at the Royal Institution	fn¹², p. 84 "Coleridge's health declined rapidly in the 1820s, and no portrait of him, painted or verbal, could fail to record this. S. C. Hall remembered him as he looked at his lecture at the Royal Institution, which took place on 18 May 1825:…"
53	October 1825	Coleridge in Ramsgate again	fn⁴, p. 369 "By October poor Henry [Gillman] had got into trouble, and Coleridge left Ramsgate, where he was spending his annual holiday with Mrs Gillman, to go to Eton and sort things out."
	October 1826	Coleridge and Mrs. Gillman in Ramsgate	fn⁴, p. 376 "In October 1826 Coleridge went on his usual two-month visit with Mrs Gillman to Ramsgate, where once again bad news from Eton arrived. This time Henry Gillman was sent down for unspecified worgdoing."
54	October 29, 1826	Derwent Coleridge ordained	fn⁷, pp. 80 - 81 "Derwent was ordained Deacon at Exeter Cathedral on Sunday, 29 October 1826." fn⁴, p. 377 "In October 1826 he [Derwent Coleridge] was ordained deacon and began serving as a curate in Cornwall under yet another cousin, the Revd James Coleridge, eldest son of the Colonel."
55	December 6, 1827	Derwent Coleridge marries Mary Simpson Pridham at St. Andrews Church, Plymouth, Devonshire	Public domain
	January 12, 1828	Samuel's brother, the Rev. George Coleridge dies at Ottery	Public domain see also fn⁴, p. 378
	April 1828	Coleridge visited by his brother, James	fn⁴, p. 381 "In April 1828 Coleridge was visited by his brother James, now reconciled to becoming in due course father-in-law to Coleridge's daughter, …"
	June 21 - August 6, 1828	Continental tour with Wordsworth "Poetical Works" published	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvii fn⁴, pp. 382 - 383 "Another subject of discussion at Aders's breakfast party in June was Wordsworth's plan to spend a few weeks traveling in Belgium, Holland and the Rhineland with his daughter Dora... Relations with Coleridge were now relaxed enough...for him to be included in the tour at the last minute. The 'two Poets and their amiable Daughter', as Dora put it, set off on 21 June... by 6 August the travellers had arrived back in London."
56	October 1828	Coleridge complains of ill health	fn⁴, p. 384 "In October 1828, his birthday month, Coleridge's writes letters more frequently complained of his ill health and guilty conscience."
	September 3, 1829	Sara Coleridge marries her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge at Crosthwaite Church, Keswick, Cumberland Hartley Coleridge last saw his sister Sara at her marriage "Poetical Works, 2nd edition	fn⁵, p. 222 "Sara Coleridge was married in Crosthwaite church on 3 September in glorious weather, surrounded by her family and friends. Southey gave her away, her childhood playfellow John Wordsworth was the clergyman and Dora Wordsworth, Edith May, Bertha and Kate Southey were among the seven bridesmaids dressed in pale green satin, carrying armloads of late roses." fn⁴, p. 370 "Not only did he never see his father [after 1822], but after his sister Sara's marriage in 1829 he did not see her again either." fn⁴, p. 385 "Hartley did turn up at Rydal Mount a few days after the wedding, managing to miss both Sara and his mother, who was staying with the Wordsworths." (contrast to the above quote)
	September 1829	Sarah Coleridge leaves Greta Hall for good	fn⁵, p. 223 "Sarah Coleridge had made up her mind to leave Greta Hall after her daughter's wedding…so Sarah went on a farewell visit to Rydal Mount after the wedding and on 28 September travelled to Cornwall to stay with Derwent and his wife at Helston."
57	December 1829	"On the Consitution of Church and State" published	see fn⁴, p. 387
	July 2, 1830	Writes will	fn⁸, chapter II, p. 96 "In his will, dated Highgate, July 2nd, 1830…"
	October 7, 1830	Sara Coleridge's first child born	fn⁴, p. 397 "Poor Mrs Coleridge. She had left Derwent's house for Hampstead to be with Sara during the birth of her first Child, Herbert, born on 7 October 1830."
58	1831	Last meeting with Wordsworth	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvii
	November 1831	Health issues	fn¹⁵, p. 181 "In November 1831 he writes that for eighteen months past his life had been 'one chain of severe sicknesses, brief and imperfect convalescences, and capricious relapses.' Henceforth he was almost entirely confined to the sick-room. His faculties, however, still remained clear and unclouded."
	1832	Coleridge constantly ill	fn⁴, p. 399 "Coleridge was now constantly ill, though he appears to have given up opium for about six weeks between the end of March and some time in May 1832, resuming it…at the request of Green and Gillman,…"
59	August 9, 1832	Coleridge witnesses the christening of Sara's second child	fn⁴, p. 400 "Coleridge roused himself to go to Hampstead for the christening of Sara's second child, Edith, on 9 August 1832… If he felt thus warmly towards his wife on the occasion, she too had renewed positve feeling towards him,…"
		Detailed description of the view from Coleridge's window at Highgate	fn¹⁰, chapter VIII "The Gillmans did not encourage much company, or excitation of any sort, round their sage; nevertheless access to him, if a youth did reverently wish it, was not difficult. He would stroll about the pleasant garden with you, sit in the pleasant rooms of the place,--perhaps take you to his own peculiar room, high up, with a rearward view, which was the chief view of all. A really charming outlook, in fine weather. Close at hand, wide sweep of flowery leafy gardens, their few houses mostly hidden, the very chimney-pots veiled under blossomy umbrage, flowed gloriously down hill; gloriously issuing in wide-tufted undulating plain-country of the brightest green; dotted all over with handsome villas, handsome groves; crossed by roads and human traffic, here inaudible or heard only as a musical hum: and behind all swam, under olive-tinted haze, the illimitable limitary ocean of London, with its domes and steeples definite in the sun, big Paul's and the many memories attached to it hanging high over all. Nowhere, of its kind, could you see a grander prospect on a bright summer day, with
			the set of the air going southward,--southward, and so draping with the city-smoked not you but the city."
		Description of Coleridge at Highgate	fn¹⁰, chapter VIII "The good man, he was now getting old, towards sixty perhaps; and gave you the idea of a life that had been full of sufferings; a life heavy-laden, half-vanquished, still swimming painfully in seas of manifold physical and other bewilderment. Brow and head were round, and of massive wight, but the face was flabby and irresolute. the deep eyes, of a light hazel, were as full of sorrow as of inspiration; confused pain looked mildly from them, as in a kind of mild astonishment. The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute; expressive of weakness under possibility of strength. He hung loosely on his limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively steps; and a lady once remarked, he never could fix which side of the garden walk would suit him best, but continually shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden high-aspiring and surely much-suffering man. His voice, naturally soft and good, had contracted itself into a plaintive snuffle and singsong; he spoke as if
			preaching,--you would have said, preaching earnestly and also hopelessly the weightiest things. I sitill recollect his 'object' and 'subject,' terms of continual recurrence in the Kantean parovince; and how he sang and snuffled them into 'om-m-mject' and 'sum-m-mject,' with a kind of solemn shake or quaver, as he rolled along. No talk, in his century or in any other, could be more surprising." ed. note: more detail contained in chapter VIII of this book.
60	April 1833	Coleridge's health was wretched.	fn⁴, p. 401 "By April 1833 Coleridge's health was wretched. Henry Nelson Coleridge noticed that he had 'a good deal lost his articulation;…' "
	June and July 1833	Coleridge visits Cambridge and Ramsgate	fn⁴, p. 404 "Durning the summer of 1833 Coleridge experienced one of those miraculous recoveries at which Dorothy Wordsworth used to marvel. To everyone's estonishment he was fit enough to visit Cambridge for three days in June and to enjoy a summer holiday with the Gillmans in their old haunt, Ransgate, in July. After three weeks in Ramsgate, he returned to Highgate,..."
61	October 1833	Coleridge's bodily health declines	fn⁴, p. 404 "Though Coleridge was largely cheerful, his bodily health continued to decline."
	January 1834	Sara Coleridge gave birth to twins, Berkeley and Florence who only survive two days	see fn⁴, p. 405
	March 1834	Coleridge growing weaker	fn⁴, p. 405 "Coleridge himself was growing weaker. In March he was suffering from a tumour in the cheek and neck and another outbreak of erysipelas."
	First half of 1834	"Poetical Works", 3rd edition published	S. T. Coleridge, Edited by R. L. Brett, London, G. Bells & Sons, 1971, p. xvii
	July 25, 1834	STC dies at 3 The Grove, Highgate, London home of Dr. Gillman	fn⁴, p. 406 "On 25 July Coleridge died, as nearly at peace with himself as was possible, concerned about his friends, and glad to be leaving behind a life of suffering. It had not been a happy life for many of the sixty-one years it lasted. But it had been an extraordinary one.."
		Post Mortem	fn¹³, p. 31 "In 1830 Sara and Henry Nelson Coleridge moved nearby to Hampstead, and supported him through the last few years. Coleridge died on 25 July 1834 in Highgate. A post mortem revealed evidence of serious and long-standing heart problems, suggesting a physiological basis for the laudanum dependency which had so desturctively blighted Coleridge's vulnerable sensibiliity."
	August 2, 1834	Coleridge buried in Highgate 1961 Coleridge's remains are reburied at St. Michael's Church, Near Highgate Cemetery, London	fn⁴, p. 406 "Coleridge was buried in Highgate, in a vault next to Highgate School, on August 2, 1834. Henry and Edward Coleridge attended, as did Green and James Gillman junior, whose father was too ill to go. John Sterling came from Cambridge. The vault filled up, in due course, with other family members: Henry Nelson Coleridge in 1843, Coleridge's unfortunate wife in 1845, his beloved daughter in 1852, and her brilliant son Herbert in 1861."
	August 2, 1834 (The quote following states the will was read following the burial)	STC's will read by Mr. Green	fn¹⁸, p. 66 "Mr. Green, after the ceremony, read aloud his will, and was greatly overcome in performing his task. It is indeed a most affecting document. What little he had to bequeath (a policy of assurance worth about 2560) is my mother's for life, of course, and will come to her children equally after her time. Mr. Green has the sole power over my father's literary remains, and the philosophical part he will himself prepare for publication; some theological treatises he has placed in the hands of Mr. Julius Hare, of Cambridge, and his curate, Mr. Sterling (both men of great ability). Henry will arrange literary and critical pieces--notes on the margins of books, or any miscellaneous productions of that kind that may be met with among his MSS., and probably some letters will appear if they can be collected."
	September 8, 1837	Thomas Poole dies (born November 14, 1765 at Nether Stowey)	Friend of Coleridge
	November 16, 1837	Edith Southey (ne' Fricker) dies	Edith Southey was Coleridge's Sarah's sister
	1839	James Gillman dies	Walton's Lives and Gillman's Life of Coleridge, B. R. McElderry, Jr., PMLA, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun., 1937, pp. 412-422
	January 26, 1843	Son-in-Law, Henry Nelson Coleridge dies at home, husband of Sara Coleridge	Sara Coleridge was STC's only daughter
	1843	Josiah Wedgwood dies	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	March 21, 1843	Robert Southey dies at Greta Hall, Keswick
	September 24, 1845	Coleridge's wife, Sarah dies at 10 Chester Place, Regent's Park, London the home of her daughter
	May 03, 1852	Daughter Sara Coleridge dies at home
	1853	Joseph Cottle dies	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	March 28, 1883	Son Derwent Coleridge, last of STC's children dies at Torquay, Devonshire
		Summary of Coleridge's life divided into three parts; 1. the "Poetic Period" 1772 - 1798 2. the "Critical Period" 1798 - 1818, and 3. the "Theological Period" 1818 - 1834	fn¹⁵, p. 170 "His life until the age of twenty-six may fairly be described as in its 'poetic period.' It was during these years, and indeed during the last two or three of them, that he produced all the poetry by which he will be remembered, while he produced little else of mark or memorability. The twenty years which follow from 1798 to 1818 may with equal accuracy be styled the 'critical period.' It was during these years that he did his best work as a journalist, and all his work as a public lecturer on aesthetics. It was during them that he said his say, and even his final say, so far as any public modes of expression were concerned, on politics and on art. From 1818 to his death his life was devoted entirely to metaphysics and theology, and with such close and constant reference to the latter subject, to which indeed his metaphysics had throughout his life been ancillary, that it deserves to give the name of the 'theological period' to these closing years."

fn¹	James Dykes Campbell, The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1905
fn²	Richard Holmes, Coleridge - Early Visions, Flamingo, London, 1999
fn³	Richard Holmes, Coleridge, Darker Reflections, Flamingo, London, 1999
fn⁴	Rosemary Ashton, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Blackwell, 1997
fn⁵	Kathleen Jones, A Passionate Sisterhood, Constable, 1997
fn⁶	H. W. Howe, Greta Hall, Daedalus Press, 1977
fn⁷	R. Hainton & G. Hainton, The Unknown Coleridge, Janus, 1996
fn⁸	James Gillman, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1838, Globusz Publishing ebooks New York • Berlin
fn⁹	Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Vol. I, 1837, (online book)
fn¹⁰	Thomas Carlyle, Life of John Sterling, 1851, (Coleridge at Highgate), (The Project Gutenberg Ebook)
fn¹¹	Henry Nelson Coleridge and Sara Coleridge, The Biographical Supplement of Biographia Literaria of S. T. Coleridge, 1847 (The Project Gutenberg Ebook)
fn¹²	Morton D. Paley, The Life Portraits of Coleridge, 1999, Oxford University Press
fn¹³	The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge edited by Lucy Newlyn, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 2002, Cambridge University Press, extract from Coleridge's Life by Kelvin Everest
fn¹⁴	Ellis Yarnell, Wordsworth and the Coleridges, 1899, The MacMillan Company, New York
fn¹⁵	H. D. Traill, English Men of Letters: Coleridge, 1884
fn¹⁶	Professor William Angus Knight, Coleridge and Wordsworth in the West Country, 1914, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
fn¹⁷	Eleanor A. Towle, The Poet's Children, Hartley and Sara Coleridge, Methuen & Co. LTD. London
fn¹⁸	Edith Coleridge, Memoir and Letters by Sara Coleridge, 1875
fn¹⁹	The Annual Register or a view of History, Politics and Literature of the Year 1834, printed for Baldwin and Cradock, London
fn²⁰	The Gentleman's Magazine by Sylvanus Urban, Vol. V New Series, 1836, London



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