Coleridge was much struck with Grasmere and its neighbourhood.

I have much to say to you.
You will think my plan a mad one, but I have thought of building a house there by the lake-side.

John would give me 40_l._ to buy the ground.
There is a small house at Grasmere empty, which, perhaps, we may take; but of this we will speak.'[46] [46] _Memoirs_, i.

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_At the Lakes_.
LETTER TO COLERIDGE (1799): JOURNEY FROM SOCKBURN TO GRASMERE.
'We arrived here on the evening of St.Thomas's day, last Friday [1799], and have now been four days in our new abode without writing to you--a long time! but we have been in such confusion as not to have had a moment's leisure.