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1. Reason for assuming the name of "Mount Vernon papers" [etc.] -- 2. Christmas -- 3. The house of Franklin -- 4. A safe answer -- 5. The comet -- 6-7. An incursion into the Empire state -- 8. The parable against persecution -- 9.Washington's diary. Robertson's miniatures of General and Mrs. Washington -- 10. Washington's diary, pt. II -- 11. Louis Napoleon : three phases in his life -- 12. Washington's diary -- 13. Abbotsford visited and revisited, pt. I -- 14. The fourth of March, 1789 -- 15. Abbotsford visited and revisited, pt. II -- 16. The court of France in 1818 -- 17. Lord Erskine's testimony to Washington -- 18-19. The financial distress of the year 1857 -- 20. Travelling in former times -- 21. Travel in Europe -- 22. Havre and Rouen -- 23. Will there be a war in Europe? -- 24. Another volume of Washington's diary -- 25-26. Washington's southern tour -- 27. Adam's express and the express system of the United States -- 28. At Paris, in 1818 -- 29-31. The illustrious dead of 1859: Prescott, Bond, Hallam, Von Humboldt -- 32-33. Italian nationality -- 34. The light-house -- 35. Prince Metternich -- 36-37. Seven critical occasions and incidents in the life of Washington -- 38. Several critical occasions and incidents in the life of Washington -- 39. Fontainebleau, Burgundy, Autun, Talleyrand -- 40. Lyons -- 41. From Lyons to Geneva -- 42. Excursion from Geneva to Chamouni, Mont Blanc -- 43. The Montanvert, the Sea of ice, and the Green garden -- 44. Geneva, Ferncy, Lausanne -- 45. From Lausanne to Freyburg -- 46. Berne -- 47. The nineteenth of April, 1775 -- 48. From Berne to Sachseln -- 49. Stanz, Lucerne, Tell -- 50. Goldau, Aloys Reding, Grutli, the Tellensprung -- 51. Altorf, the valley of the Reuss, the Valais -- 52. Daniel Boon -- 53. The New York ledger. |
