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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