In the spring of 1805, de Quincey moved into his mother's house here on Dowry Parade. Elizabeth de Quincey appears to have chosen Clifton due to its proximity to the house of Hannah More and her four sisters at Barley Wood, Wrington, Somerset. For the following few years de Quincey described himself as 'continually resident' in Clifton. Despite the young de Quincey's disapproval, Hannah More dsecribed him as a clever young man, and introduced him to Joseph Cottle (Bristol publisher) in the autumn of 1805. De Quincey was a great admirer of Wordsworth and Coleridge and, after an appeal to Cottle, met Coleridge at Bridgwater. Following this, de Quincey became a frequent visitor of the Coleridge family, loaning money to Coleridge to feed the laudanum habit they shared.