-- Mr H -- -- To William Wordsworth -- The Lake poets -- Byron in 1809 -- Literary London -- The laureateship -- Leigh Hunt in prison -- The Excursion -- Lamb at home -- Wordsworth in London -- Byron in London -- Coleridge and Lady Hamilton -- Lamb to Wordsworth -- Byron and Shelley in Switzerland, 1816 -- Crabb Robinson among the Lakes -- Shelley in England -- Byron on his contemporaries -- Dedicatory sonnet to Leigh Hunt -- London, 1817-18 -- Shelley and Byron -- Keats and Coleridge -- The Waggoner -- Coleridge -- The Cenci -- The Wordsworths in town -- Shelley and Keats -- The Wordsworths in town -- London from abroad -- On the conversation of authors -- Lamb to Hazlitt -- Coleridge as book-borrower -- Hunt on Lamb and Coleridge -- De Quincey in London -- Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt and Shelley -- Scott -- The death of Keats -- Byron at Ravenna and Pisa -- The death of Shelley -- After Shelley's death -- Lamb to Coleridge -- Lamb to Bernard Barton -- Byron on his contemporaries -- Lamb on Byron -- Lamb to Wordsworth -- Wordsworth, Lamb and Moore -- Leigh Hunt in Florence -- Lamb's friends -- Lamb's retirement -- Blake -- The last night at Abbotsford -- Landor and Lamb -- Coleridge on Wordsworth -- Elia -- To Southey, 1833 -- The death of Coleridge -- Landor to Crabb Robinson -- Aftermath.