目次
v. 1. The autocrat of the breakfast-table : every man his own Boswell -- v. 2. The professor at the breakfast-table, with the story of Jris -- v. 3. The poet at breakfast-table : he talks with his fellow-boarders and the reader -- v. 4. Over the teacups -- v. 5. Elsie Venner : a romance of destiny -- v. 6. The guardian angel --
v. 7. A mortal antipathy : first opening of the new portfolio -- v. 8. Pages from an old volume of life : a collection of essays, 1857-1881 -- v. 9. Medical essays, 1842-1882 -- v. 10. Our hundred days in Europe -- v. 11-13. The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes -- v. 14. Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley : two memoirs
