DERWENT C OLERID GE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF Tag "SPECTATOR,."] SIR,—Those who knew Derwent Coleridge well will be justly indignant at Carlyle's criticism upon him recently published in the Contemporary Review. For eighteen years I served under him, the last nine years as his curate at Hanwell, and during that time our relationship was very intimate, and more deeply valued by me than I can possibly express. I feel that I am only acting as the mouthpiece for very many of his old pupils, his former parishioners, his personal friends,. when I say that there is not one word of likeness to the man whom we knew and loved in Carlyle's malignant criticism. The sketch is not even a caricature, for in a caricature there- must be some resemblance : here there is absolutely none.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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