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Richard Hakluyt, Shakespeare's close contemporary, dying the same year, 1616, was a Welsh collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travel and other documents relating to English navigators and voyagers. The zest for good old Hak is still alive and inspiring, as indicated in recent and contemporary research work.

Dorothy Middleton edited in 1969 The Diary of AJ Mounteney Jephson: Emin Pasha Expedition 1887-9. Middleton edited this volume in collaboration with Maurice Benham Jephson, great grand-son of AJ Mounteney Jephson of the title page

If you travel nowadays to County Somerset in southwestern England, you will find the cottage where ST Coleridge lived in 1797-8, a brief spell indeed in terms of chronology, but vast in literary, as well as social achievements, as during this period Coleridge wrote his three masterpieces, "The Ancient Mariner", "Kublai Khan" and "Chritabell", and on the social level, that was the golden age of the Coleridge-Wordsworth friendship, and the first thing you will read upon your entrance to the cottage will be Coleridge's words:"The light shall stream to a far distance from the taper in my caottage window". Didn't the light reach us in Baghdad when reading Coleridge!