e circle of readers. The narrative is concerned with persons and
events that have interested me during the busy hours of a lengthy life.
I have been deeply impressed by the changes wrought by time in the modes
of education, which are now so much at variance with those of my
childhood, and in the manners and customs of those with whom I have
mingled.
I should be guilty of an act of grave injustice if I failed to express
my grateful acknowledgments for the aid so unselfishly rendered, in a
score of ways, by my daughter, Mrs. Roswell Randall Hoes, without which
these pages would not, and could not, have been written.
M. GOUVERNEUR.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--EARLY LONG ISLAND DAYS 1
II.--NEW YORK AND SOME NEW YORKERS 21
III.--SCHOOL-DAYS AND EARLY FRIENDS 50
IV.--LIFE AND EXPERIENCES IN THE METROPOLIS 69
V.--LONG BRANCH, NEWPORT AND ELSEWHERE 96
VI.--SOME DISTINGUISHED ACQUAINTANCES 118
VII.--FASHION AND LETTERS 138
VIII.--WASHINGTON IN THE FORTIES 170
IX.--SOCIAL LEADERS IN WASHINGTON LIFE 194
X.--DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND OTHER CELEBRITIES 229
XI.--MARRIAGE AND CONTINUED LIFE IN WASHINGTON 256
XII.--SOJOURN IN CHINA AND RETURN 288
XIII.--THE CIVIL WAR AND LIFE IN MARYLAND 312
XIV.--VISIT TO THE FAR SOUTH AND RETURN TO WASHINGTON 335
XV.--TO THE PRESENT DAY 365
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Mrs. Gouverneur _Frontispiece_
Samuel L. Gouverneur, Junior 116
Mrs. John Still Winthrop, _nee_ Armistead, by Sully 146
Mrs. Charles Eames, _nee_ Campbell, by Gambadella 178
Brigadier General Winfield Scott, U.S.A., by Ingham 202
Mrs. James Munroe, _nee_ Kortright, by Benjamin West 258
Miniature of James Monroe, painted in Paris in 1794 by Seme 284
Mrs. Gouverneur's three daughters, Miss Gouve
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