LILLIE DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE
Reproduced from the portrait painted in 1880 by B.C. Porter.

CONTENTS

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NOTE [ vi]i
THE ALPHABET OF A DIPLOMAT [ ix ]
WASHINGTON, 1875-1880 [ 1 ]
ROME, 1880-1890 [ 89 ]
STOCKHOLM, 1890-1897 [ 201 ]
PARIS, 1897-1902 [ 237 ]
BERLIN, 1902-1912 [ 277 ]

ILLUSTRATIONS

LILLIE DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE [ Frontispiece ]
Facing Page:
MRS. U.S. GRANT [ 6 ]
SARAH BERNHARDT [ 12 ]
DOM PEDRO [ 12 ]
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW [ 50 ]
JAMES G. BLAINE [ 50 ]
OLE BULL [ 82 ]
QUEEN MARGHERITA [ 102 ]
KING VICTOR EMANUEL [ 106 ]
TWO YOUNG QUEENS [ 130 ]
THE PALACE, MONZA (FRONT) [ 136 ]
PALACE AND GARDENS [ 136 ]
NOTE FROM F. LISZT [ 152 ]
AALHOLM. BUILT IN 1100 [ 168 ]
INSCRIPTIONS IN ONE OF THE ROOMS AT AALHOLM, BEARING THE DATE 1585 [ 168 ]
FRANCESCO CRISPI [ 198 ]
KING OSCAR [ 212 ]
THE KING OF SWEDEN [ 220 ]
THE RIKSDAG OF SWEDEN [ 224 ]
FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM GRIEG [ 230 ]
A LETTER IN ENGLISH FROM KING OSCAR [ 234 ]
JULES MASSENET AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER [ 246 ]
A NOTE FROM MASSENET [ 248 ]
FÉLIX FAURE WHEN PRESIDENT OF FRANCE [ 252 ]
LINES FROM "LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE" WITH ROSTAND'S AUTOGRAPH [ 260 ]
BJÖRNSON [ 270 ]
THE EMPRESS OF GERMANY ON HER FAVORITE MOUNT [ 280 ]
EMPEROR WILLIAM IN THE UNIFORM OF THE GUARDS [ 280 ]
TWO VIEWS OF ROYALTY [ 282 ]
THE THRONE-ROOM OF THE ROYAL PALACE, BERLIN [ 290 ]
QUEEN LOUISE OF DENMARK [ 296 ]
THE ROYAL PALACE AND LUSTGARTEN, BERLIN [ 306 ]
COUNT HATZFELDT [ 326 ]
THE EMPEROR IN 1905 [ 332 ]

NOTE

MADAME DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE, the writer of these letters, is the wife of the recently retired Danish Minister to Germany. She was formerly Miss Lillie Greenough, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lived with her grandfather, Judge Fay, in the fine old Fay mansion, now the property of Radcliffe College.

As a child Miss Greenough developed the remarkable voice which later was to make her well known, and when only fifteen years of age her mother took her to London to study under Garcia. Two years later Miss Greenough became the wife of Charles Moulton, the son of a well-known American banker, who had been a resident in Paris since the days of Louis Philippe. As Madame Charles Moulton the charming American became an appreciated guest at the court of Napoleon III. Upon the fall of the Empire Mrs. Moulton returned to America, where Mr. Moulton died, and a few years afterward she married M. de Hegermann-Lindencrone, at that time Danish Minister to the United States, and later periods his country's representative at Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Washington and Berlin.