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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

by Moncure Daniel CONWAY (1832 - 1907)

Chapter 48 part 1 - Residence at Hamlet House - Sir Charles and Lady Dilke - W.L. Garrison’s visit - Ex-President Grant in London - Wagner in London - “Hugh Conway” - Ballad of Bedford Park

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)

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Listen next episodes of Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2:
Chapter 48 part 2 - Edwin Abbey - Cambridge University - Minister Lowell and Selwyn College - Karl Pearson’s Passion Play - Positivist festivals - Dr. Congreve - Frederic Harrison and his wife - Frederic Harrison , Chapter 49 part 1 - London as Mars Hill - Professor Clifford’s apostolate - The Liberal Congress - Clifford’s notes for the congress - The Association - Mohammed Bakher - “Ion’s cartoon of the National Church , Chapter 49 part 2 - The death of Clifford - The Church and Freethought Congresses in England - Dr. Ludwig Buchner - Max Müller on Atheism - Renan in London - The Channing Centenary - Kuenen’s lectures in London , Chapter 50 - Carlyle-Emerson letters - Their theft - Their recovery - Letter from Sir James Stephen - Letter from Emerson , Chapter 51 part 1 - Memoranda - Sara Hennell and George Eliot - Berlin - Herman Grimm - Bismark - Hon. Alphonzo Taft in Russia - A saying of Jesus , Chapter 51 part 2 - The mythical pall-bearer of Shakespeare - “Prisons of Air” - “Edmund Randolph” - Historic studies - Andrew Carnegie - Helen Jackson - “Life of Hawthorne” - Thomas Davidson - Rome - Centenary of South Palace chapel , Chapter 51 part 3 - Life of Thomas Paine - Personal liberty - Letters from Herbert Spencer - My wife’s death - Translating my “Paine” into French - Letter from Frances Power Cobbe , Chapter 51 part 4 - Hawthorne centennial at Concord - Paris as a haven of the disillusioned