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Anglo-American Memories

Name: Anglo-American Memories
Author: George Washburn Smalley

George Washburn Smalley

Read by David Wales · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Preface (1:20)
New England in 1850—Daniel Webster (15:39)
Massachusetts Puritanism—The Yale Class of 1853 (15:09)
Yale Professors—Harvard Law School (14:47)
How Massachusetts in 1854 Surrendered the Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns (18:44)
The American Defoe, Richard Henry Dana, Jr (16:15)
A Visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson (18:18)
Emerson in England—English Traits—Emerson and Matthew Arnold (19:10)
A Group of Boston Lawyers—Mr. Olney and Venezuela (16:17)
Wendell Phillips (18:17)
Wendell Phillips and the Boston Mobs (13:44)
Wendell Phillips—Governor Andrew—Phillips's Conversion (15:03)
William Lloyd Garrison—A Critical View (12:42)
Charles Sumner—A Private View (13:49)
Experiences as Journalist during the Civil War (12:27)
Civil War—General McClellan—General Hooker (12:24)
Civil War—Personal Incidents at Antietam (12:10)
A Fragment of Unwritten Military History (13:09)
The New York Draft Riots in 1863—Notes on Journalism (14:19)
How The Prussians after Sadowa Came Home to Berlin (12:53)
A Talk with Count Bismarck in 1866 (25:30)
American Diplomacy in England (30:44)
Two Unaccredited Ambassadors (13:00)
Some Account of a Revolution in International Journalism (24:21)
Holt White's Story of Sedan and How it Reached the "New York Tribune" (11:55)
Great Examples of War Correspondence (12:20)
A Parenthesis (2:56)
'Civil War?'—Incidents in the 'Eighties—Sir George Trevelyan—Lord Barrymore (11:05)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Alaska Boundary (27:13)
Annexing Canada—Lady Aberdeen—Lady Minto (10:48)
Two Governors-General, Lord Minto and Lord Grey (13:00)
Lord Kitchener—Personal Traits and Incidents (13:19)
Sir George Lewis—King's Solicitor and Friend—A Social Force (13:01)
Mr. Mills—A Personal Appreciation and a Few Anecdotes (13:15)
Lord Randolph Churchill—Being Mostly Personal Impressions (28:18)
Lord Glenesk and 'The Morning Post' (17:04)
Queen Victoria at Balmoral—King Edward at Dunrobin—Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton—Other Anecdotes (11:27)
Famous Englishmen Not in Politics (18:39)
Lord St. Helier—American and English Methods—Mr. Benjamin (10:26)
Mrs. Jeune, Lady Jeune, and Lady St. Helier (12:01)
Lord and Lady Arthur Russell and the 'Salon' in England (17:50)
The Archbishop of Canterbury—Queen Alexandra (9:27)
A Scottish Legend (11:25)
A Personal Reminiscence of the Late Emperor Frederick (12:27)
Edward the Seventh as Prince of Wales—Personal Incidents; Prince of Wales and King of England—The Personal Side; As King—Some Personal and Social Incidents and Impressions (36:25)