The essays of Lamb reflect his personality as they are all subjective and autobiographical in nature.

Like a true romantic, lamb likes to talk about himself. Christs Hospital is almost entirely built out of the memories of Lamb. His sense of nostalgia is most prominent in this essay, as he recounts his childhood experiences and his childhood life at his school, Christs Hospital, though under the assumed persona of Coleridge. He at the outset reveals his rather privileged status in comparison to his schoolmates, by virtue of his acquaintances, and thus while his companions had to endure blue and tasteless milk porridge and all kinds of substandard food, he enjoyed his tea and hot rolls, extraordinary bread and butter, hot plate of roast veal, griskin,etc.. Lamb reveals the tyrannical rule of the monitors, who used to punish the youngest students for any offence that had been committed by others, which included staying far away from fire during winter and not being allowed to drink water during summer and exposes the cool impunity with which the nurses used to take the food reserved for the children. He further recalls the cruel punishments meted out to the offenders, which included solitary confinements in rooms Lamb compares with the cells of a lunatic asylum, and a virtual ceremony of flogging, which Lamb compares to a ceremony in which heretics were burnt alive, that is, an auto da fe. Lamb goes on to narrate an incident where a boy used to gather the remnants of food at the table and give the food to an aged and meanly clad woman who was discovered to be the mother of the boy, who was being given food by the boy at the expense of his good name. This act earned the boy a silver medal.