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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
CHAP.
I. Birth and Parentage.
II. Boyhood.
III. Early Manhood at Witton-le-Wear.-Influence of my Step-
mother, of Miss Fenwick, and of Southey.-First Ap-
pearance in Print
IV. London on a Venture.-Appointment in the Colonial Of-
fice and Early Operations there
V. Early Friends and Associates.- Hyde Villiers and his
Family.-John Mill.-Charles Austin.-John Romil-
ly.-Edward Strutt
VI. Speeches.-Articles in the Quarterly Review.— Gifford.
"Isaac Comnenus."-Visits to the Continent and
to Miss Fenwick at Bath.-Views of Myself. . .
VII. The History of Philip Van Artevelde Adopted as the Sub-
ject of a Drama.—Proposal of a New Employment
which does not take Effect.-Miss Villiers .
VIII. Men and Affairs in the Colonial Office.-Lords Goderich
and Howick.-Business or Poetry, which?-Question
of Slavery.-Lords Goderich and Howick Succeeded
by Mr. Stanley and Mr. Lefevre
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IX. "Let indignation vex him even as a thing that is raw."
-Postscript to the Previous Chapter
115
X. Death of Hyde Villiers.-Commission of Inquiry into the
Poor Laws.-Part taken by my Father in its Opera-
tions.
121
XI. The Elliots.-Friendship in the Bud and in the Yellow
Leaf.-Verses.-Visit to Walter Scott.-Wordsworth.
-Sydney Smith. .
131
XII. Poets in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century.-
Byron. Moore.-Coleridge.—Wordsworth.-Publi-
cation and Success of "Philip Van Artevelde."-So-
cial Results to Me.-Lansdowne House.-Holland
House.-Publication of "The Statesman"
XIII. Mr. Spring Rice succeeds Mr. Stanley as Secretary of
State.-Mr. Spring Rice and his Family.-“The
Four Ages" of Titian.-A Proposal of Marriage, and
what followed
XIV. Lord Aberdeen and Mr. Gladstone.-Scheme for a Lit-
erary Institute.-Literary Pensions.-Lord Aberdeen
is Succeeded by Lord Glenelg, and Mr. Hay by Mr.
Stephen.-James Spedding in the Colonial Office.-
His Ways and Works.-His Bacon and his Sonnet.
-Mr. Manning (now Archbishop of Westminster) re-
signs his Junior Clerkship .
XV. Transition of the Negroes from Apprenticeship into
Freedom.-Measure for their Welfare Propounded
and Mutilated in the Cabinet, and Defeated by Sir R.
Peel in the House of Commons.-Lord Melbourne's
Government Resigns: it is Reconstituted, but the Meas-
ure is Gone.-The Negroes Suffer the Consequences
for Twenty-six Years
154
172
186
201
XVI. Diligent Endeavors of Friends to Find Me a Wife . . 223
XVII. Retreat from Troubles into Imaginative Writing.—
“Edwin the Fair."-Southey's Brain Softens, and He
is Lost to Me .
XVIII. Witton Hall “surprised with joy.”—Stanzas.-Death
of Lady Theodosia Spring Rice.-An Illness.-A
Pamphlet.-Charles Elliot in China.-An Ode
XIX. Our Friends respectively become Friends in Common.
-Aubrey de Vere.-Lady Harriet Baring.-Sir Ed-
mund Head.-George Cornewall Lewis.- Charles
Greville.-Meeting between Lord Monteagle and my
XX. Friendly Acquaintances.—Samuel Rogers.—Archbish-
op Whately.—Thomas Carlyle .
229
238
253
. 264
XXI. Miss Fenwick with Mr. and Mrs. Wordsworth
275
XXII. Publication of "Edwin the Fair."-Macaulay's Opinion
of it.-Health Broken.-Leaving England for Italy. 280
APPENDIX:
CHARLES ELLIOT'S OPERATIONS IN CHINA
285