.--the Fire--Sleighing and Prayer--Father's Advice 52
1857.--Truants and Pickles--Candle Stories--the Snuffers 77
1858.--Tableaux and Charades--Spiritual Seance 95
1859.--E. M. Morse--Letter from the North Pole 106
1860.--Gymnastics--Troublesome Comforts 118
1861.--President Lincoln's Inauguration--Civil War--School
Enthusiasm 130
1862.--Gough Lectures--President's Call for Three Hundred
Thousand Men--Mission Zeal 138
1863.--A Soldier's Death--General M'Clellan's Letter--President
Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg 148
1864.--Grandfather Beals' Death--Anna Graduates 162
1865.--President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address--Fall of
Richmond--Murder of Lincoln 176
1866.--Freedman's Fair--General Grant and Admiral Farragut
Visit Canandaigua 200
1867.--Brother John and Wife Go to London--Lecture by
Charles Dickens 208
1871.--Hon. George H. Stuart Speaks in Canandaigua--A Large
Collection 210
1872.--Grandmother Beals' Death--Biography 211
1880.--Anna's Marriage 225

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Caroline Cowles Richards Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Grandfather Beals 8
Grandmother Beals 8
Mr. Noah T. Clarke 30
Miss Upham 30
First Congregational Church 38
Rev. Oliver E. Daggett, D.D. 54
Judge Henry W. Taylor 54
Miss Zilpha Clark 54
"Frankie Richardson" 54
Horace Finley