first efforts in composition, [13];

mental training from reading, [14];

scrap-book kept in youth, [14];

handwriting at seventeen, [19];

book of arithmetic examples, [19]

knowledge of astronomy and geology, [20]-[21];

study of grammar, [26]-[27];

L.'s own account, [33];

knowledge of drama, [79];

L. as a student, [130]-[131];