THIRTY YEARS OF MY LIFE ON THREE CONTINENTS VOL. 1
By Edwin De Leon
Excerpt from Contents
CHAPTER I
Apology for Writing Reminiscences
Have seen and known so many Places and People
My Parents and Early Training
"Is the Child the Father of the Man?"
Incident in Illustration
The South Carolina University, Dr. Cooper President
Dr. Lieber, Biographer of Professor Niebuhr
Our Home Circle
CHAPTER II
Life on the old Plantation Thirty Years Ago
Christmas in the Country
White and Black, Master and Slave, how they live together
Some Anecdotes of Negro Character, and of Southern Life
CHAPTER III
Early Wanderings
Visit to Joseph Smith (Mormon Prophet) at Nauvoo, the original Holy City
Arrival, Reception, and Treatment by the Prophet and the Saints
What I Saw and Heard there from Both
Personal Peculiarities of "the Prophet"
Finale of Prophet and City
CHAPTER IV
My early Legal and Literary Experiences, Drift into Politics and Literature
Invited to Washington by Southern Members of Congress to Co-operate with Them
Washington and its Worthies in the Olden Times
Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Soule, and his Duel with the French Ambassador at Madrid
Sam Houston and Crockett
CHAPTER V
Literary, Scientific and Artistic Celebrities at Washington
Hawthorne, Morse, Longfellow, W. K. Story, O. W. Holmes, &c.
Friendship between President Pierce and Hawthorne
My Reminiscences of Hawthorne in America, and in Italy
His Introduction of the Marble Faun to me in the Vatican
CHAPTER VI
My first Glimpses of Lotos Land
Seven days in a Dahabieh between Alexandria and Cairo
Nights on the Nile
Cairo as it then was
My Official Reception by the Viceroy
A Quarrel with the Viceroy
A Strange History and its Sequel
CHAPTER VII
Shepheard's Hotel in the Olden Time
Making acquaintance of "a Remarkable Arab," then fresh from Mecca
My English Colleague Sir Frederic Bruce
We spent Summer at Cairo in Old Palaces, in Oriental fashion
Our Mode of Life
CHAPTER VIII
Curious Characters at Shepheard's Thirty Years Ago
Dr. Abbott
Burton
De Lesseps
CHAPTER IX
My Protection of Greek Colony
Exciting Incidents
What it meant
Liberal Offers
What Protection means in the East
Dramas in Real Life
CHAPTER X
Visit Greece on Invitation of the King
What I saw there
The Athens of Thirty Years Ago, and the Court and People
Reminiscences
Decorated with the Order of San Sauveur
Athens now and then. . .
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