I. Birth and parentage, school days, early patrons, politics, professional career
II. Early religious associations, protestant prejudices, foreign travel
III. Relations with the tractarians, incidents in the Catholic revival
IV. Advance towards conversion, difficulties and perplexities, reception into the church
V. Letters on conversion, family received into the church, defence of the new hierarchy
VI. New friends, impressions of Catholic households, his own character illustrated
VII. Relations with the Catholic clergy, interest in Catholic projects, second visit to Rome
VIII. Letters Om Hyeres, illness, death, condolences.