One of Manning’s Cambridge pupils was Charles Lloyd, a Quaker poet plagued by mental health issues, and it was Lloyd who provided Manning’s introduction to Romantic literary circles. Lloyd had just fallen out with his previous mentor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, after publishing some scandalous details about Coleridge in his novel, Edmund Oliver (1798). The chapter examines Manning’s trip to visit Lloyd during his honeymoon in the Lake District in summer 1799, providing our first view of Manning as a participant in English Romanticism. The Lakes were now assuming a place of momentous importance in British literary culture, thanks to Coleridge and, especially, William Wordsworth. Lloyd introduced Manning to the essayist Charles Lamb, and they began a famous friendship and literary correspondence. In January 1800 Lamb introduced Manning to Coleridge, and over the next eighteen months Lamb engaged Manning in a close reading of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, a seminal work in Romantic poetry. The chapter discusses Manning as a Romantic traveller, not only in the Lakes in 1799, but also in the West Country and South Wales in 1801 – other crucial locales in the Romantic imagination.