CHAPTER XXVII

THE GILLMANS

Friendship is a Sheltering Tree.--_Youth and Age_, 1822-3.

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[The Gillmans necessarily come much into notice in Coleridge's later letters. The following to Allsop have some references to his kind hosts, besides other friends and acquaintances of Coleridge. The Mr. Dawes referred to was the Rev. John Dawes, who kept a day school at Ambleside, and taught Hartley and Derwent classics and mathematics (_Letters_, 576).