Critique on the ‘Hebrew Melodies’—Separation of Lord and Lady Byron—Correspondence with the latter 1
Letters from Mrs. Leigh—Comments on the separation 34
Ordination—Curacy—Living—Poems—Letters from Byron from Ravenna—His opinion of Hodgson’s poetry—Letters from Mrs. Leigh, Moore, and Montgomery 65
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Letters from Denman, John Bird Sumner, Drury, Dean Ireland, Herman Merivale, and the Duchess of Devonshire—A tour in Yorkshire 105
Letters from Mrs. Leigh—Byron’s death, funeral, and memoirs—Sketch of Newstead Abbey—Meeting with Moore—His letters 133
Literary occupations—Letters from Rogers, Montgomery, Alaric Watts, Butler, Scrope Davies, Drury, Lonsdale, and Denman 167
Letters from Mrs. Leigh—To Moore—From Butler, the Bishops of Gloucester and Lincoln, the Duke of Rutland, Merivale, Rogers—Death of his first wife—Appointment to the Archdeaconry of Derby 198
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Letters of Merivale on religious subjects—From Butler and from Mrs. Leigh—Marriage with Miss Denman—Honey-moon at Hardwicke—Rectory of Edensor—Letters from the Duke of Rutland, Lord Denman, the Duke of Devonshire, and Merivale—Appointment to the Provostship of Eton—-Letter from Lord Wellesley 229
Reforms at Eton—Visit to Brighton—Death of Drury—Letters from Mrs. Robert Arkwright and Henry Hallam—Visit of Rogers to Eton—Byron’s statue—His opinions on sculpture—Letter from Mrs. Leigh—More reforms at Eton—Restoration of the collegiate church—Abolition of ‘Montem’ 262
Friendship and correspondence with Mr. Le Bas and the Duke of Devonshire—Last illness—Death—Character 292
Index 331
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