In one of these letters, a famous letter to his friend, Francesco Vettori a man named Francesco Vettori, he describes how he came to write his most famous book.
From an early age he adopted a foppish, bohemian style, and in due course, having thrown over his studies in engineering and the possibility ofa legal career, he became amanofletters.
The settings, too, are interiors: cramped rooms, generally lent by understanding friends after Coleridge had left his wife and children in the Lake District and decided to become amanofletters in London.