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  • Algiers, Campbell’s visit to, 130.
  • Altona, Campbell at, 58.
  • Anderson, Dr Robert, 30, 37, 43, 67.
  • Annals of Great Britain, The, 75.
  • Battle of the Baltic, The, 64.
  • Boulogne, Campbell settles at, 139.
  • Campbell, Alexander, poet’s father, 10-13, 67.
  • ——, Alison, poet’s son, 90, 99.
  • ——, Archibald, poet’s grandfather, 10.
  • ——, Margaret, poet’s niece, 136, 137.
  • ——, Mrs, poet’s mother, 13, 99.
  • ——, Mrs, poet’s wife, 80, 113, 119.
  • Campbell, Thomas, ancestry, 9;
  • birth, 11;
  • at Grammar School, 15;
  • his love for the classics, 16;
  • first verses, 17, 18;
  • at Glasgow University, 20-32;
  • his professors, 20;
  • his fellow-students, 21;
  • early turn for satire, 24;
  • first visit to Edinburgh, 25;
  • becomes a tutor, 27, 32;
  • falls in love, 29, 34;
  • second visit to Edinburgh, 36;
  • becomes a clerk, 37;
  • is introduced to literary society of capital, 37;
  • his first literary commission, 39;
  • ‘Pleasures of Hope’ published, 43;
  • Continental travels, 51-62;
  • first visit to London, 62, 66;
  • returns to Edinburgh, 68;
  • visits Dr Currie at Liverpool, 70;
  • settles in London, 77;
  • his marriage, 81;
  • first child born, 83;
  • takes up house at Sydenham, 85;
  • his opinion of publishers, 89;
  • gets a Government pension, 91;
  • his ‘Gertrude of Wyoming’ published, 94;
  • introduced to Princess of Wales, 100;
  • lectures at Royal Institution, 100;
  • visits Paris, 102;
  • lectures at Liverpool and Birmingham, 106, 107;
  • visits Holland and Germ
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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