Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1882 — The Grave of Coleridge. [ARTICLE]

The Grave of Coleridge.

An English correspondent writes: ‘‘Having occasion to pay a visit to Highgate, it occurred to me that I might improve the occasion by a visit to the rest-ing-place of the ‘Old Man Eloquent’— the great dreamer, talker, and poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After considerable difficulty, for no one in the locality seemed to know anything about the matter, I found the custodian of the keys of the now disused burying-place. I need not describe my feelings on witnessing the scene of desolation and decay which met my view when once within the gates. Suffice it to say that I felt humiliated, and I should have felt more so, I fancy, if I liad belonged to ‘kit and kin’ of the great philosopher. As a matter of curiosity I made inquiry of the man in charge how many people were in the habit of troubling him weekly. ‘Weekly, sir?’ said he in a tone of surprise; ‘why, I have only had twelve applications during the past year, and eleven out of the twelve have been made by Americans.’ Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, with a salary of $35,000 a year, might spare a pound or two to keep his kinsman’s grave in order.” Mb. Gail B. Johnson, business manager of the Houston, Texas, Post, has used St. Jacobs Oil with the greatest benefit for rheumatism, says the Galveston, Texas, News.