THE DAWNING OF LITERARY LIFE 246 XXV. BROUGHT FACE TO FACE WITH MY FATE 254 XXVI. LITERARY WELL-WISHERS; GEORGE D. PRENTICE; MRS. SIGOURNEY; GRACE GREENWOOD; H. W. LONGFELLOW; JAMES REDPATH; THE “WANDERING JEW” 262 XXVII. MY NORTHERN KINSPEOPLE; “QUELQU’UN” AND LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP 270 XXVIII. MY FIRST OPERA; “PETER PARLEY”; RACHEL AS “CAMILLE”; BAYARD TAYLOR; T. B. ALDRICH; G. P. MORRIS; MARIA CUMMINS; MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY 280 XXIX. ANNA CORA (MOWATT) RITCHIE; EDWARD EVERETT; GOVERNOR WISE; A MEMORABLE DINNER-PARTY 288 XXX. A MUSICAL CONVENTION; GEORGE FRANCIS ROOT; WHEN “THE SHINING SHORE” WAS FIRST SUNG; THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS; BETROTHAL; DEMPSTER IN HIS OLD AGE 297 XXXI. WEDDING BELLS; A BRIDAL TOUR; A DISCOVERED RELATIVE; A NOBLE LIFE 304 XXXII. PARSONAGE LIFE; WILLIAM WIRT HENRY; HISTORIC SOIL; JOHN RANDOLPH; THE LAST OF THE RANDOLPHS 313 XXXIII. PLANTATION PREACHING; COLORED COMMUNICANTS; A “MIGHTY MAN IN PRAYER” 325 XXXIV. MY NOVITIATE AS A PRACTICAL HOUSEWIFE; MY COOK “GETS HER HAND OUT”; INCEPTION OF “COMMON SENSE IN THE HOUSEHOLD” 333 XXXV. THE STIRRED “NEST AMONG THE OAKS”; A CRUCIAL CRISIS 346 XXXVI. MIGRATION NORTHWARD; ACCLIMATION; ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, IN NEW YORK; POLITICAL PORTENTS 355 XXXVII. THE PANIC OF ’61; A VIRGINIA VACATION; MUTTERINGS OF COMING STORM 363 XXXVIII. THE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, IN RICHMOND 370 XXXIX. “THE LAST THROUGH TRAIN FOR FOUR YEARS” 382 XL. DOMESTIC SORROWS AND NATIONAL STORM AND STRESS; FRIENDS, TRIED AND TRUE 389 XLI. FORT DELAWARE; “OLD GLORY”; LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION; THE RELEASED PRISONER OF WAR 399 XLII. A CHRISTMAS REUNION; A MIDNIGHT WARNING; HOW A GOOD MAN CAME TO “THE HAPPIEST DAY OF HIS LIFE” 408 XLIII. TWO BRIDALS; A BIRTH AND A PASSING; “MY LITTLE LOVE”; “DRIFTING OUT”; A NONPAREIL PARISH 417 XLIV. TWO YEARS OVERSEAS; LIFE IN ROME AND GENEVA 427 XLV. SUNNYBANK; A NEW ENGLAND PARISH; “MY BOYS”; TWO “STARRED” NAMES 436 XLVI. RETURN TO MIDDLE STATES; THE HOLY LAND; MY FRIENDS THE MISSIONARIES; TWO CONSULS IN JERUSALEM 448 XLVII.