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Coleridge's laws: a study of Coleridge in Malta

This account of Coleridge’s governmental role on Malta depended on the discovery and analysis of a very substantial Maltese archive of government records that earlier scholars, such as Coburn, had judged to have been destroyed. Davis and Hough were the first scholars to identify these archives in the uncatalogued material in the cellars of the National Archive. Regardless of their source or date the documents (in Italian) had been randomly placed in numerous unnumbered boxes and jumbled together. The examination, organisation, translation and interpretation of this extensive and complex material required more than two years’ study.