Excerpt from The Gillmans of Highgate: With Letters From Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrated With Views and Portraits; Being a Chapter From the History of the Gillman Family Bacon died at Highgate in the seventeenth century and nearly two centuries later Coleridge, whose special influence on national thought can scarcely be said to be less, died there also. My friend, Mr. Alexander Gillman, has asked me to write a preface to this work, in which he brings forward fresh materials illustrating the life of the latter of these two - the great poet and philosopher, whose character and genius are every day better under stood and appreciated - and I do so with much pleasure. Although an essay so full of interest needs no introduction to the reading public it may be well to refer in a few words to its chief claims to attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.