neighbourhood.

I have also read somewhere that Coleridge told the story of "Doctor
Dobbs and his horse Nobbs" to Southey at Oxford.

J.M.B.


_Dr. Dobbs and his Horse Nobbs_.--Although of small moment, it is,
perhaps, worth recording, that a Doctor Daniel Dove, of Doncaster, and
his horse Nobbs, form the subjects of a paper in "The Nonpareil, or the
Quintessence of Wit and Humour," published in 1757, and which, there can
be little doubt, was the source whence Southey adopted, _without
alteration_, the names so well known to all readers of the _Doctor_.

JNO. SUDLOW.

Manchester.


Seeing the communication of "P.C.S.S." (p. 73.), reminds me of a note
taken from our Parish Register:--

"1723. Feb. 10. 'Dorothy Dove, gentlewoman, bur.'"

I have never seen the name in connection with Doncaster before or since
the above date.

J.S.