CONTENTS
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| Early Days in New Hampshire — My Father and Mother — Mr. Emerson's School at Boston — Daniel Webster at Marshfield — Visit to Washington — "Tyler Too" — Charles Dickens — Along the Ohio and Down the Mississippi — The Carved Oxen at Nauvoo — Joseph Smith and the Mormons | Page 1 |
| Visit to Dubuque and the Wisconsin Prairies — A Steamboat Trip through the Great Lakes with Mr. Van Buren and J. K. Paulding — Chicago and Mayor Ogden — James Russell Lowell and Maria White — A Visit to the "Experiment" at Brook Farm — Mr. Ripley, Mr. Curtis, Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller | 28 |
| Washington in the Forties — General Franklin Pierce — The Mexican War — John Quincy Adams, Lincoln, Calhoun, Benton, and Clay — A Sight for Northern "Doughfaces" — The 7th. of March Speech — Chester Harding — Two Stories of Webster — President Taylor's Inauguration — State Balls and Dinners — The Society of the Capital Half a Century Ago | 41 |
| Early Simplicity in Dress and Manners — My Wedding-dress and my Marriage — A Novel Wedding Trip — St Thomas and Santa Cruz — A Celebrated Lawsuit and a Unique Christmas Festival — Havana — Rachel, the Famous French Actress, Visited the United States in 1854 — Fanny Kemble — Thackeray's Visit to America — The Purchase and Restoration of Mount Vernon | 58 |
