Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 by Moncure Daniel Conway (1832 - 1907)

Chapter 28 part 1 - Discussions in London concerning slavery and the Negro - Testimonies Concerning Slavery - Commemoration of John Brown - Charles Dickens - The Shakespeare tercentenary at Stratford-on-Avon

Chapter 28 part 2 - Death of Emerson - Dr Strauss - Residence at Notting Hill - J.S Mill - Helen Taylor

Chapter 29 part 1 - My reviews of Browning - The wrapper of his poems - Carlyle’s account of the marriage of the Brownings - Browning’s father - “Mr. Sludge, the Medium” - Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Chapter 29 part 2 - The sisters Eliza and Sarah Flower, Browning and W.J. Fox - Tennyson at Farringford - Mrs. Cameron - “The Promise of May” - Tennyson’s dread of agnosticism and orthodoxy

Chapter 30 part 1 - Settlement at South Place chapel - London City in 1864 - Executions at the Old Bailey - Open air debates at Smithfield - G.J. Holyoake - Collet - Letter from Horace Greeley

Chapter 30 part 2 - Unitarianism in England - J.J. Taylor - Martineau - Comparison of Martineau and Emerson - Dr. Aspland - My new Christ - Collectivist deity - The ethics of skepticism - W.J. Fox

Chapter 31 part 1 - The Taylors of Aubrey House - “Pen and Pencil Club” - The Hon. James Stansfeld, M.P. - Mazzini - Gallenga - Garibaldi in England - Hustling Garibaldi out of England

Chapter 31 part 2 - Mazzini’s talks and letters - Mazzini’s religion - Carlyle’s talk about Mazzini - Karl Blind - Ferdinand Blind’s attempt on Bismark - Mathilde Blind

Chapter 32 part 1 - Parliament - Broughham, Russel, Derby, Dufferin - Aristocracy - Robert Lowe - Shaftesbury - Disraeli - Palmerson - Bulwer

Chapter 32 part 2 - Gladstone - Cobden - His acquaintance with Jefferson Davis - Cobden’s death - The funeral of Palmerson - The death of President Lincoln - Letters from Sumner - His attack on England

Chapter 33 part 1 - Lord Rector Carlyle in Edinburgh - The address - Dinner at Erskine’s - Carlyle talks of his life - Talk with Dr. Carlyle

Chapter 33 part 2 - Lord Neave, Dundas, Carlyle - Dr William Smith - Robert Chambers - Death of Mrs. Carlyle - Ruskin and Carlyle - The Kingsleys - John Burroughs and Carlyle about birds

Chapter 34 part 1 - Ruskin - Carlyle and Ruskin - Ruskin’s lectures - Contemporary art - “A Caution to Snakes” - The Rossettis - Dante Rossetti’s “Nonsense Verses” - Rossetti’s “Mary Virgin”

Chapter 34 part 2 - “Mary Magdalene” - Rev.Dr. Storrs - “The Gate of Memory” - Dante and Beatrice - “The fall of the leaf” - Religion and Preraphaelists - Holman Hunt - Ford and Oliver Madox Brown

Chapter 35 part 1 - “Artimus Ward” - Tom Robertson - Allingham - Mrs. Allingham and Carlyle - Charles Dickens

Chapter 35 part 2 - Mark Twain - Lord Lytton - Church and Stage Guild - Toole - Joseph Jefferson - the “Daily News” - U.S. Minister Johnson - Motley - Sir Henry Taylor - Lady Taylor - Wordsworth and Tennyson

Chapter 35 part 3 - Mrs. Call and George Eliot - Mrs. Bray of Coventry - Emerson - Omar Khayyam Club - Edward Fitzgerald - George Eliot and G.H. Lewes - Mark Twain in London - Dr. and Mrs. Humphrey Sandwith

Chapter 36 part 1 - Paris - Exposition 1867 - Emperor and Empress - Maximilian - July 4 - Tallandier - Ledru Rollin - Louis Blanc - Anti-Russian feeling

Chapter 36 part 2 - Stockholm - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Professor Buslaef - Eugene Schuyler - Baronial hospitality - Among the peasants - Traveling with the Czar - Nijni-Novgorod Fair

Chapter 37 - London scientific circle - Fossil man - Kent’s Cave - A phenomenal mummy - The burial of Lyell in the Abbey - Sir William Grove - Professor Tyndall - Professor Huxley - Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker - Scientific maidens - My Glastonbury thorn - A geological ramble in the Weald