As I Remember / Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century

NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1911
Copyright, 1911, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
to the memory of
MY FATHER
whose benign influence i still feel
and to
MY HUSBAND
the companion and pillar of strength of my later years
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
The rambling personal notes threaded together in these pages were written at the urgent request of my family, and have provided a pleasant diversion during otherwise lonely hours. The idea of their publication was highly distasteful to me until the often repeated importunities of many of those whose judgment commands my respect persuaded me that some of the facts and incidents I have recalled would prove of interest to a large circle of readers. The narrative is concerned with persons and events that have interested me during the busy hours of a lengthy life. I have been deeply impressed by the changes wrought by time in the modes of education, which are now so much at variance with those of my childhood, and in the manners and customs of those with whom I have mingled.