About the beginning of July he is again at Racedown; and when he returns he brings Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy with him for a visit.

On the 7th Lamb arrived for his long-planned reunion with Coleridge.

The second week of July, 1797, was thus a rich and long-remembered time for all of them, despite the fact that Mrs.
Coleridge "accidentally emptied a skillet of boiling milk" on her husband's foot, which confined him "during the whole time of Charles Lamb's stay." The others took long walks in the neighborhood, amid such scenery as is described in "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," a poem that admirably voices the happiness, of those days of spiritual fellowship.

The Wordsworths did not return to Racedown.

"By a combination of curious circumstances a gentleman's seat, with a park and woods, elegantly and completely furnished,...