Chapter CXVI: Letter 32: , in which Cottle inserts the names of Lamb, Wordsworth and Dr

Parr, and in Letter 123, in which he alters his own name for that of Biggs, his partner. His changes consist mostly of omissions. Letters 99, 114, 117, 122, which are given in full in T. Litchfield's _Tom Wedgwood the First Photographer_, are the principal sufferers from Cottle's treatment. It cannot be said that these omissions amount to a serious charge against Cottle. They were made to avoid bringing in the names of people still alive or whose near relations might object to their names figuring in a publication, and also to avoid obtruding Coleridge's complaints about his ill-health and his own treatment into notice. His tampering with the letters of Southey, in which he makes Southey say what he never wrote, is not, of course, defensible (see Dykes Campbell's _Life of Coleridge_, p. 204 _note_). Cottle's longest omission is in