Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Vol.1&2). Harriet Beecher Stowe

       Harriet Beecher Stowe

      Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands

       (Vol.1&2)

      Letters & Travel Sketches from Europe

      e-artnow, 2021

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066498474

      Table of Contents

       Volume 1

       Volume 2

      Volume 1

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       Preface

       Introductory

       Breakfast In Liverpool—April 11.

       Public Meeting In Liverpool—April 13.

       Public Meeting In Glasgow—April 15.

       Public Meeting In Edinburgh—April 20.

       Public Meeting In Aberdeen—April 21.

       Public Meeting In Dundee—April 22.

       Address Of The Students Of Glasgow University—April 25.

       Loud Mayor's Dinner At The Mansion House, London—May 2.

       Stafford House Reception—May 7.

       Congregational Union—May 13.

       Royal Highland School Society Dinner, At The Freemason's Tavern, London—May 14.

       Antislavery Society, Exeter Hall—May 16.

       Soirée At Willis's Rooms—May 25.

       Concluding Note.

       Letter I

       Letter II

       Letter III

       Letter IV

       Letter V

       Letter VI.

       Letter VII

       Letter VIII

       Letter IX

       Letter X

       Letter XI

       Letter XII

       Letter XIII

       Letter XIV

       Letter XV

       Letter XVI

       Letter XVII

       Letter XVIII

       Notes

      ... "When thou haply seest

      Some rare note-worthy object in the travels,

      Make me partaker of thy happiness."

      Shakespeare.

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      This book will be found to be truly what its name denotes, "Sunny Memories."

      If the criticism be made that every thing is given couleur de rose, the answer is, Why not? They are the impressions, as they arose, of a most agreeable visit. How could they be otherwise?

      If there be characters and scenes that seem drawn with too bright a pencil, the reader will consider that, after all, there are many worse sins than a disposition to think and speak well of one's neighbors. To admire and to love may now and then be tolerated, as a variety, as well as to carp and criticize. America and England have heretofore abounded towards each other in illiberal criticisms. There is not an unfavorable aspect of things in the old world which has not become perfectly familiar to us; and a little of the other side may have a useful influence.

      The writer has been decided to issue these letters principally, however, by the persevering and deliberate attempts, in certain quarters, to misrepresent the circumstances which, are here given. So long as these misrepresentations affected only those who were predetermined to believe unfavorably, they were not regarded. But as they have had some influence, in certain cases, upon really excellent and honest people, it is desirable that the truth should be plainly told.

      The object of publishing these letters is, therefore, to give to those who are true-hearted and honest the same agreeable picture of life and manners which met the writer's own, eyes. She had in view a wide circle of friends throughout her own country, between whose hearts and her own there has been an acquaintance and sympathy of years, and who, loving excellence, and feeling the reality of it in themselves, are sincerely pleased to have their