Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, v. 2

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Jacksonville History Center

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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, v. 2

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.1871

Tags

Library Rare books collection as of June 4 2023

Description

vii, 432 p., ill. Sunny memories of foreign lands, v.2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illustrated from designs by Hammatt Billings . Not long after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Europe. On her return, she produced this book, in two volumes, of her letters and journals during the trip. It was used widely as a guidebook by Americans traveling overseas. This is volume two. Table of Contents: Contents of the 2d volume: Letter XIX. -- Breakfast.-- Macaulay.-- Hallam.-- Milman.-- Sir R. Inglis.-- Lunch at Surrey Parsonage.-- Dinner at Sir E. Buxton's. -- Letter XX: -- Dinner at Lord Shaftesbury's. -- Letter XXI. -- Stoke Newington.-- Exeter Hall.-- Antislavery Meeting -- Letter XXII -- Windsor.--The Picture Gallery.-- Eton.-- The Poet Gray. / Letter XXIII. Rev. Mr. Gurney.-- Richmond, the Artist.-- Kossuth.-- Pembroke Lodge.-- Dinner at Lord John Russell's.--Lambeth Palace. / Letter XXIV -- Playford Hall.--Clarkson. Letter XXV -- Joseph Sturge.--The "Times" upon Dressmaking.--Duke of Argyle.-- Sir David Brewster.--Lord Mahon.--Mr. Gladstone. / Letter XXVI. London Milliners.-- Lord Shaftesbury. / Letter XXVII. Archbishop of Canterbury's Sermon to the Ragged Scholars.-- Mr. Cobden.-- Miss Greenfield's Concert.-- Rev. S. R. Ward -- Lady Byron.--Mrs. Jameson.--George Thompson.--Ellen Crafts. / Letter XXVIII -- Model Lodging Houses.-- Lodging House Act.-- Washing Houses. / Letter XXIX. Benevolent Movements.-- The Poor Laws.--The Insane.-- Factory Operatives.--Schools, &c. / Letter XXX. Presentation at Surrey Chapel.-- House of Parliament.-- Miss Greenfield's Second Concert.-- Sir John Malcolm.-- The Charity Children.- -Mrs. Gaskell.-- Thackeray./ Journal: London to Paris.-- Church Music.-- The Shops.-- The Louvre.-- Music at the Tuileries.- -A Salon.--Versailles.--M. Belloc. / Letter XXX! -- The Louvre.--The Venus de Milon. / Journal -- M. Belloc's Studio.-- M. Charpentier.-- Salon Musicale.-- Peter Parley.-- Jardin Mabille.-- Remains of Nineveh.-- The Emperor.-- Versailles.-- Sartory. Pier la Chaise.--Adolphe Monod.-- Paris to Lyons.-- Diligence to Geneva.-- Mont Blanc.-- Lake Leman. / Letter XXXIII -- Route to Chamouni.-- Glaciers./ Letters XXXIII -- Chamouni.-- Rousse, the Mule.-- The Ascent. Journal/ -- The Alps / Letter XXXIV -- The Ice Fields. -- Chamouni to Martigny.-- Humors of the Mules./ Letter XXXV -- Alpine Flowers.--Pass of the Tête Noir. -- The Same. 5 // Letter XXXVI -- Ascent to St. Bernard.-- The Dogs. / Letter XXXVII -- Castle Chillon.-- Bonnevard.-- Mount Blanc from Geneva.-- Luther and Calvin.-- Madame De Wette.-- M. Fazy. -- A Serenade.-- -- Lausanne.-- Freyburg.-- Berne.-- The Staubbach.-- Grindelwald. / Letter XXXVIII. Wengern Alps.-- Flowers.-- Glaciers.-- The Eiger. -- Glaciers.- -Interlachen.-- Sunrise in the Mountains.-- Monument to the Swiss Guards of Louis XV --Basle.-- Strasbourg. / Letter XXXIX. -- Strasbourg./ Letter XL. -- The Rhine.--Heidelberg. - To Frankfort. / Letter XLI. -- Frankfort.-- Lessing's "Trial of Huss. -- To Cologne.--The Cathedral. / Letter XXII. -- Cologne.-- Church of St. Ursula.--Relics.-- Dusseldorf. -- To Leipsic.-- M. Tauchnitz.-- Dresden.--The Gallery.-- Berlin. / Letter XLIII -- The Dresden Gallery.--Schoeffer. / Letter XLIV -- Berlin.-- The Palace.-- The Museum. / Letter XLV -- Wittenberg.-- Luther's House.-- Melanchthon's House. / Letter XLVI -- Erfurt.-- The Cathedral.-- Luther's Cell.--The Wartburg. -- The Smoker discomfited.-- Antwerp.-- The Cathedral Chimes.--To Paris. / Letter XLVII -- Antwerp.--Rubens. / Letter XLVIII -- Paris.-- School of Design.-- Egyptian and Assyrian Remains.-- Mrs. S. C. Hall.-- The Pantheon.-- The Madeleine.-- Notre Dame.-- Béranger.-- French Character.-- Observance of Sunday -- Seasickness on the Channel. Letter XLIX./ York.--Castle Howard.-- Leeds.-- FountainsAbbey.-- Liverpool.-- Iris Deputation -- Departure.

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Nomenclature 4.0

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Book

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Other Documents

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Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Travel., Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Correspondence., Europe -- Description and travel.

Publication Details

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896., Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874

Publisher

Phillips, Sampson, and Company

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Boston

Call No.

Rare Book PS 2956 .S7 1854 v.2

LCCN

03019107