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Written on July 2, 1816, the letter accompanied some of Coleridge's manuscripts which he sent for criticism to one of his friends, the Right Honorable John Hookham Frere, a noted English diplomat and author of humorous poetry, famous for his translations of Aristophanes. The manuscripts sent to Frere included the first volume and a part of the second of Coleridge's work, "My Literary Life", as well as his "Sibylline Leaves", the latter being a collection of his poems, which, as he writes, he "dared consent to be known as of his own will as well as authorship...
...that all the audience will be able to appreciate the wit and satire of Aristophanes' comedy, though the ladies and the unlearned will be provided with a convenient English translation of the play, by Dr. Kennedy, the professor of Greek, together with the graceful version of the late John Hookham Frere, It must not, however, be taken for granted that none of the lady spectators will be able to follow the text in the original. Classical literature is being very extensively cultivated just now among our female students, not a few of whom have shown themselves as learned as Lady...