[The letters to Allsop gradually lessen in number as we draw away from the year 1822. This is not necessarily because there was less communication between the two friends, but more probably because their meetings were more frequent. The Gillmans, on account of the large circle of friends who assembled round their guest, had to set aside an afternoon once a week as a special "at home" day for the convenience of visitors (_Life of Alaric Watts_, i, 244-45). This was the origin of the _Table Talk_, edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, which begins on 29th December 1822, and continues, with breaks, to the year 1834. Various accounts have been given of these celebrated Thursdays, the most notable of which is that of J. Noon Talfourd in the concluding chapter of his _Final Memorials of Charles Lamb_. The scraps of _Table Talk_, published by Henry Nelson Coleridge, though reckoned of great value, are, after all, very isolated; and to any one who has studied Coleridge's prose works and can comprehend the "grand planetary wheelings" of his logic they appear insufficient to warrant the accounts of the eulogists of Coleridge's conversational ability. Doubtless they have the same relationship to Coleridge's conversation as the shattered fragments of the great icebergs which come floating down the Gulf Stream and wreck themselves on the coasts of Iceland have to the icebergs of which they are the disunited parts. Many men who afterwards attained to eminence in their several departments gathered at the Grove to hear Coleridge discourse. Charles and Mary Lamb, Basil Montagu and his wife, J. Hookham Frere, Henry Crabb Robinson, John Sterling, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Allsop, and Joseph Henry Green, may be regarded as the planets who revolved around the central sun. The planets, too, occasionally brought their satellites. Joseph Henry Green made Coleridge's acquaintance in 1817. Deeply interested in philosophy, he imbibed Coleridge's principles, and afterwards wrote a book on the Logos, published in 1865 as _Spiritual Philosophy_. Edward Irving also sat at the feet of Coleridge; he brought Carlyle to Highgate in 1824, who wrote his impressions of Coleridge to his brother the same year, and twenty years later depicted Coleridge in colours which will remain beside those of Hazlitt, De Quincey, Noon Talfourd, Henry Nelson Coleridge, and Clement Carlyon and T. Colley Grattan, one of the fine gallery of contemporary literary portraits of Coleridge. Dr. Chalmers came in 1827 and caught occasional glimpses of meaning, (_Memoir_ by Hanna, ii, 126-27): and Emerson called in 1833, without, however, any vital feeling of spiritual inter-relationship springing up between them, (_English Traits_). During 1824 Coleridge was much engaged with Religious subjects; and then composed those Letters afterwards published as _Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit_.