B. W. PROCTER. May, 1866.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Introduction.
Biography: Few Events.
One predominant.
His Devotion to it.
Tendency to Literature.
First Studies.
Influence of Antique Dwellings.
Early Friends.
Humor.
Qualities of Mind.
Sympathy for neglected Objects.
A Nonconformist.
Predilections.
Character.
Taste.
Style.
CHAPTER II.
Birth and Parentage.
Christ's Hospital.
South Sea House and India House.
Condition of Family.
Death of Mother.
Mary in Asylum.
John Lamb.
Charles's Means of Living.
His Home.
Despondency.
Alice W.
Brother and Sister.
CHAPTER III.
Jem White.
Coleridge.
Lamb's Inspiration.
Early Letters.
Poem published.
Charles Lloyd.
Liking for Burns, &c.
Quakerism.
Robert Southey.
Southey and Coleridge.
Antijacobin.
Rosamond Gray.
George Dyer.
Manning.
Mary's Illnesses.
Migrations.
Hester Savory.
CHAPTER IV.
(Migrations.)
"John Woodvil."
Blackesmoor.
Wordsworth.
Rickman.
Godwin.
Visit to the Lakes.
Morning Post.
Hazlitt.
Nelson.
Ode to Tobacco.
Dramatic Specimens, &c.
Inner Temple Lane.
Reflector.
Hogarth and Sir J. Reynolds.
Leigh Hunt.
Lamb, Hazlitt, and Hunt.
Russell Street and Theatrical Friends.