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 Rh Brummell, their correspondence — Davies and Hobhouse visit Byron in Switzerland — Davies and his quarrel with George Lamb — some jests by Davies — Moore and he as guests of Sir Francis Burdett — his quarrel with Hobhouse — Davies cuts his throat six times — his exile — life in Belgium — his projected life of Byron — Davies in France with Tom Raikes and Ball Hughes — his praise of the table d'hote at Rouen — his death at Paris — the supposed relics of Byron —More of the sayings of Davies — errors and omissions about him pp. 101—123

Life at Edinburgh about 1790 — Dugald Stewart and his classes — Seymour's education — his meeting with Anna Seward while calling on the "Maids of Llangollen" — Henry Cockburn's description of him — Seymour and the scientific societies of Edinburgh and London — Seymour and Henry Mackenzie's parties — Seymour studies with Francis Horner — Seymour's travels with Playfair in Scotland and among the Lakes — Seymour and bishop Watson — Seymour in Derbyshire and Cheshire— his visit to Henry Hallam — Seymour in Hampshire — Sydney Smith dedicates his sermons to him — More travels with Playfair — Seymour as a military man — his friendship with Miss Berry — his discovery at the seaside by Ward, lord Dudley — his purchase of a Scotch property — his friendship with the Minto family — His note in Sir Walter Scott's "Rokeby" — his friendship for Thomas Campbell, sir Charles Bell, Washington Irving and others — his decline and death — his character as depicted by his friends — forgotten for many years pp. 124—148

The salons of the literary ladies — literary interest of Claudius Clear and C. K. S. in Lydia White — her parentage — Samuel Rogers meets her at Brighton — Lydia White in Ireland and at Tunbridge Wells — her visits to Sir Walter Scott— "nineteen times nine dyed blue" — her sketches— the Irishman's attempt to impose upon Scott — Lydia White in private theatricals— her friendship with Sir Roderick Murchison and Sir Henry Holland — William Spencer and the authors of the Rejected addresses — Lydia White in Italy — Tom Moore and her parties — descriptions of her by lady Charlotte Bury and the rev. William Harness — her parties as described by lady Charlotte— Lydia White and the chief literary ladies, Mrs. Somerville, Mrs. Marcet and Miss Edgeworth— Lydia White and the poets lord Byron and Bulwer Lytton — her fight against death — She entertains to the last — her death and