CONTENTS TO VOL. III.
CHAPTER I.
Lord Rectorship — Second Rectorship — Third Rectorship — Change of Residence — Matrimonial Prospects — New house — Campbell Club — Letter to Mr. Gray — Impaired health — Literary Union — Letter to Sir Walter Scott 1—55
CHAPTER II.
Close of Rectorship — Campbell Club Anniversary — Sir Thomas Lawrence — Escape from London — Life of Lawrence — Sullivan — Miss Anderson — Milnes — Calcott — Stewart — Cuvier — Daily Revolutions — Peptf — O'Bryen — Painful incident — Peruvian Chief — Resigns Editorship — Letters to Mr. T. Moore — Death of his brother — Warsaw taken — New Editorship — Literary prospects — Retires to St Leonards — Evening walks — Zeal for the Poles — Anecdote — Tour through Kent — St Leonards — Visit to Lord Dillon — Ditchley — Returns to London — Polish Affairs — Life of Mrs. Siddons — The Kembles — Letters from St. Leonards — The Monks of St. Leonards — Mr. and Mrs. Pond — Astronomer Royal 57—95
CHAPTER III.
Letter from Stoke, Derbyshire — Polish Association — "Metropolitan" — Letter to Mrs. Arkwright — Letter to Mr. Rogers — Prince Czartoryski — Talleyrand — Mrs. Whitelock — Mr. Sullivan — Polish Literary Association — St Leonards — Letter to Mrs. Arkwright — Letter to his sister — Madden's reminiscences of the Poet — Original lines — Red-Riding-Hood — Public dinner — Prince Czartoryski — City Banquet — Lord Brougham — Parliament — Czartoryski's family — Letter to Mr. Gray — Russian cruelty — Literary union — Daily employment — Polish destitution — Anecdotes — Meeting with Joseph Buonaparte — The Poet's Attic — Polish exile — Visit to Brighton — Anecdote — Retires to Highgate — Biography — His economy — Ludicrous mistake — The Poet's visits at Hampstead — Mrs. Siddons — Note by Godwin — Kemble — King Lear 97—151
CHAPTER IV.
Poetical retrospect — "Theodric" — Public service — "Spanish Patriots' Song" — Charades — Songs — His versatile genius — Switzerland — Professorship — Foreign tour projected — His work published — Arrival in Paris — to the Poet — Czartoryski — Speech at the public dinner — New work — Dinner Parisian features — Letter to Mr. Rogers 153—173
CHAPTER V.
Africa — Letters from Algiers — Return to Europe — Letter from Toulon — Mascara — Buznach — Arab tents — Mr. St. John's reminiscences — Ode — Letter to Mrs. Arkwright — Neukomm — "Letters from the South" — Illustrations — Steam voyage to Edinburgh — Old friends — Letters from Blairbeth — Glasgow 177—213
CHAPTER VI.
Dinner at Paisley — Races — Blairbeth — Highland Margaret — Riccarton — Brougham Hall — Shakspeare and Petrarch — Dinner to Mr. Rogers — Rush — Grattan — Letter from Lord Holland — Autobiography — Critical notice — Visit to Edinburgh — Printers' Festival — Chambers in Lincoln's-Inn-fields — Frederick the Great — Narrow escape — Scenic Annual — Poems illustrated — Editing Shakspeare — Letter to his Nephew — Witchcraft — Mendicity Office — Presenting his Works to Queen Victoria — Visit to his son — Letter to Woodville — Sydney Smith — Petrarch and Laura — Visit to Edinburgh — Correspondence — Reminiscences of the Poet 215-255
CHAPTER VII.
Return to London — Life and occupation — Letter to Mrs. Marryat — Benevolence — Christening in Ivy-lane, City — Musical Poets — His two darlings — Extempore lines — Accident — Study — Life of Petrarch — Loss of friends — Poems — Death of the Rev. A. Alison — Change of scene — Ramsgate — Life of Petrarch — Trip to Chatham — Chatham friends — Ralph the Raven — Scenes in the "Life of Petrarch" — Arrival of an old friend — Engravers — West Indians — Spanish — Arabic — The parrot — Letter to his nephew Robert — Letter to Mrs. A. — Portrait — Ship launch at Chatham — Meeting of the Alpha Club — Speech 259—297
CHAPTER VIII.
Victoria Square, Pimlico — Visit to Glasgow — Letter to Mrs. Fletcher — Duncliffe — His child sweetheart — Infant beauty — Eulogy on woman — New house — Practical benevolence — Letters from Wiesbaden — Journey — Return from Wiesbaden — Home — A warning — Lines to Mary Campbell — "Pilgrim of Glencoe" published — Critical position of his affairs — Breakfast in the new house — Anecdote — Arrival at Dinan — Return home — Hampstead friends — Professor Arthur — Independence — Proposes a subscription edition — Arrangements to quit London — Munificent friend — Practical charity — Letter to his sister — Her death — Visits Cheltenham — Goes to Boulogne — Residence in Boulogne — Letters — Society — Spectacle — Buys an annuity — Settles in Boulogne 299—357
CHAPTER IX.
Boulogne — The closing scene 358—384
Conclusion — Letters to his Nephew, and Niece Mary Campbell — Latilla's child — Anecdote — Buznach — African lion — The challenge — The fencing-master — Anecdote — Kemble, Talma, and the Poet — Anecdote — Proofs of celebrity — Anecdote — The Mercer — Singer — Soldier — Anecdote — The Poet and the parrot — The Printers' Festival — Anecdote — Affecting personal anecdote — Convivial habits — The last apology — Evening conversations — Fragment — Notes of "Mornings with Campbell" — Notes by an American Author 385—423
APPENDIX.
Family Bible — Exile of Erin — Dr. Madden’s Notes — Extracts from the German — London University — Lord Rector’s Inaugural Speech — Note to Vol. I. — The Campbell Club — Princess Czartoryski to Campbell — Polish Minister’s Letter to the Poet — The Campbell Monument — List of the Committee — Opinions of Mackintosh — Gofe'the — Funeral in Westminster Abbey — Letter from the Polish Association — Mr. W. Moxon — The Poet’s Last Will and Testament 425—446

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