| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | New Orleans Children of 1840 | [1] |
| II. | New Orleans Schools and Teachers in the Forties | [7] |
| III. | Boarding School in the Forties | [14] |
| IV. | Picayune Days | [23] |
| V. | Domestic Science Seventy Years Ago | [31] |
| VI. | A Fashionable Function in 1842 | [42] |
| VII. | New Year’s of Old | [50] |
| VIII. | New Orleans Shops and Shopping in the Forties | [58] |
| IX. | The Old French Opera House | [65] |
| X. | Mural Decorations and Portraits of the Past | [71] |
| XI. | Thoughts of Old | [80] |
| XII. | Wedding Customs Then and Now | [87] |
| XIII. | A Country Wedding in 1846 | [94] |
| XIV. | The Belles and Beaux of Forty | [101] |
| XV. | As It Was in My Day | [107] |
| XVI. | Fancy Dress Ball at the Mint in 1850 | [116] |
| XVII. | Dr. Clapp’s Church | [120] |
| XVIII. | Old Daguerreotypes | [125] |
| XIX. | Steamboat and Stage Seventy Years Ago | [130] |
| XX. | Hotel at Pass Christian in 1849 | [140] |
| XXI. | Old Music Books | [146] |
| XXII. | The Songs of Long Ago | [153] |
| XXIII. | A Ramble Through the Old City | [159] |
| XXIV. | “Old Creole Days” and Ways | [173] |
| XXV. | A Visit to Valcour Aime Plantation | [182] |
| XXVI. | The Old Plantation Life | [191] |
| XXVII. | People I Have Entertained | [200] |
| XXVIII. | A Monument to Mammies | [209] |
| XXIX. | Mary Ann and Martha Ann | [216] |
| XXX. | When Lexington Won the Race | [245] |
| XXXI. | Louisiana State Fair Fifty Years Ago | [250] |
| XXXII. | The Last Christmas | [256] |
| XXXIII. | A Wedding in War Time | [264] |
| XXXIV. | Substitutes | [273] |
| XXXV. | An Unrecorded Bit of New Orleans History | [280] |
| XXXVI. | Cuban Days in War Times | [287] |
| XXXVII. | “We Shall Know Each Other There” | [295] |
| XXXVIII. | A Ramble Through New Orleans With Brush and Easel | [303] |
| XXXIX. | A Visit of Tender Memories | [320] |
| Biographical Note | [331] |