ABSTRACT
This chapter recounts how Coleridge came to be friendly with Gillman and to stay at his house. The wish that Coleridge wanted to stay with Gillman was forwarded to Gillman by another physician, Joseph Adams. The chapter reproduces Adams's letter to Gillman. Thereupon two met and in appreciation of the meeting, Coleridge wrote a letter to Gillman for thanking him for agreeing to accommodate him in his house. The chapter reproduces Coleridge's letter. Coleridge came, bringing in his hand the proof sheets of Christabel, which was now for the first time printed. The fragment in manuscript was already known to many, for to many had Coleridge read it, who had listened to it with delight—a delight so marked that its success seemed certain. Sir Walter Scott always spoke in high praise of the Christabel, and more than once of his obligations to Coleridge; of this we have proof in his Ivanhoe.
