This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.

With four letters, 1824 and 1828, concerning Byron, and a manuscript of his last poem, undated.

Lamb refers to performance of 'the Tragedy' [Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice]. Lamb also asks Hobhouse to send her one of Byron's poems ‘pray send me the lines Ld Byron wrote to Mr. Moore upon his going away in the Boat' and refers to a 'commission' she had undertaken on Hobhouse's behalf.

Letter dated 26 February 1816, of Lord Byron to James Perry, editor of the "Morning Chronicle", offering the ode ‘We do not curse thee Waterloo!’ for publication. Byron's poem appeared in the "Morning Chronicle" on 15 March 1816 with a note by Byron suggesting that the author was Chateaubriand.

Published in Leslie Marchand, Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. V, pp. 33-34.