In Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott an account is given of my first meeting with him in 1803.

How the Ettrick Shepherd and I became known to each other has already been mentioned in these Notes.

He was undoubtedly a man of original genius, but of coarse manners and low and offensive opinions.
Of Coleridge and Lamb I need not speak here.

Crabbe I have met in London at Mr.Rogers', but more frequently and favourably at Mr.Hoare's upon Hampstead Heath.

Every Spring he used to pay that family a visit of some length, and was upon terms of intimate friendship with Mrs.Hoare, and still more with her daughter-in-law, who has a large collection of his letters addressed to herself.