As I Remember: Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century
By Gouverneur, Marian
Classic work by Gouverneur, Marian.
Table of Contents
EARLY LONG ISLAND DAYS I do not know of a spot where, had I been accorded the selection, I should have preferred first to see the light of day, nor one more in keeping with the pr...
NEW YORK AND SOME NEW YORKERS About 1828 my parents moved to New York, and immediately occupied the house, No. 6 Hubert Street, purchased by my father, and pleasantly located a sh...
SCHOOL-DAYS AND EARLY FRIENDS I must return to my school days. After several years spent at Miss Forbes's my parents decided to afford me greater advantages for study, and especia...
LIFE AND EXPERIENCES IN THE METROPOLIS My health was somewhat impaired by an attack of chills and fever while I was still a pupil at Madame Chegaray's school. Long Island was espe...
LONG BRANCH, NEWPORT AND ELSEWHERE When I was about ten years of age, accompanied by my parents, I made a visit to Long Branch, which was then one of the most fashionable summer r...
SOME DISTINGUISHED ACQUAINTANCES In close proximity to St. John's Park, during my early life on Hubert Street, there resided a Frenchman named Laurent Salles, and I have a vivid r...
FASHION AND LETTERS One of the show places of New York State, many years ago, was the residence of John Greig, a polished Scotch gentleman who presided with dignity over his princ...
WASHINGTON IN THE FORTIES My first visit to Washington was in 1845. I started from New York at eight o'clock in the morning and reached Philadelphia late the same afternoon. I bro...
SOCIAL LEADERS IN WASHINGTON LIFE I passed many delightful hours in the Washington home of General Scott and had a standing invitation to come and go as I pleased. Upon his return...
DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND OTHER CELEBRITIES I have already spoken of the Count de Sartiges, who so ably represented the French Government in the United States. He had not been very lon...
MARRIAGE AND CONTINUED LIFE IN WASHINGTON I met my future father-in-law, Samuel L. Gouverneur, Sr., for the first time in Cold Spring, New York. Mr. Gouverneur, accompanied by his...
SOJOURN IN CHINA AND RETURN Prior to the Civil War, Mr. Gouverneur received an appointment from James Buchanan as U.S. Consul to Foo Chow in China, and I decided to accompany him ...
THE CIVIL WAR AND LIFE IN MARYLAND As the time passed I became somewhat anxious over the delay in Mr. Gouverneur's return to this country. It seems, however, that, with neither of...
VISIT TO THE FAR SOUTH AND RETURN TO WASHINGTON In the autumn of the same year I decided to make a long anticipated visit to Mrs. John Still Winthrop in Tallahassee, whose marriag...
and was _petite_ in figure. Senator and Mrs. Henry L. Dawes and their intellectual daughter, Miss Anna, were highly esteemed by Washingtonians. General Ambrose B. Burnside, Senator...
TO THE PRESENT DAY Shortly after our return to Washington we received an invitation to a party at the house of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Richardson, the former Secretary of the Trea...