Family history—Vaughans—Cokes—Mother’s influence—Entrance at Eton 1
Eton—Cambridge—Choice of a profession—Early friendships 19
Translation of Juvenal—Contemporary critiques 51
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Extracts from reviews—Letters from William Gifford and Dr. Ireland—Tutorship at King’s 69
Commencement of friendship with Lonsdale and Lord Byron—Notes of the latter on Pope—His religious impressions—Letters from Byron and Gifford—Institution of the ‘Quarterly’—Public oratorship—Political allusions—Lines to Lonsdale 94
Letters from his father—Political allusions—Imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett—Political squibs—Lines by Denman—Epitaph for Windham—Father’s death 125
Contributions to reviews—Early poems—Lines to Byron 149
Letters from Byron—Meeting in London, and lines written on the same day—Death of Matthews—Byron’s first
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will, and a poem on ‘Newstead Abbey,’ hitherto unpublished 162
Correspondence with Byron on religious subjects 191
Letters from Byron—Meeting at Cambridge—Prevention by Hodgson of duel between Byron and Moore—Visit to Newstead—More letters 209
Origin of Bland’s ‘Anthology’—Hodgson’s contributions to it—Sketch of Bland’s life and passages from his letters 226
Correspondence with Drury and Merivale—A Rugby examination—Assassination of Perceval—Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of Cambridge—Letter from Lonsdale—‘Leaves of Laurel’ 251
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Intended marriage—Byron’s generosity—Letters from Byron, Rogers, Prince Lucien Buonaparte, Mrs. Leigh, and Miss Milbanke 267
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