Lancashire.-Carlisle. - Gretna Green. - Glasgow. - The Cathedral. - Dr. Wardlaw. A Tea Party - Both- well Castle. Chivalry. — Scott and Burns. - 52-70 Public Soirée. Dr. Guthrie. Craigmiller Castle. - Bass Rock. - Ban- - - - - Aberdeen. The Cathedral. - Brig o' Balgounie. . - 82-106 Letter from a Scotch Bachelor. - Reformatory Schools of Aberdeen. Dundee. Dr. Dick. - The Queen in Scotland. . - 107-127 - · Roslin Castle. The Quakers. - Hervey's Studio. - Grayfriars' Churchyard. - 169-190 Baptist Noel.-Borough School. - Rogers the Poet. -Stafford House. - Ellesmere Collection of Paintings.- Lord John Russell. . 314-326 INTRODUCTORY. THE following letters were written by Mrs. Stowe for her own personal friends, particularly the members of her own family, and mainly as the transactions referred to in them occurred. During the tour in England and Scotland, frequent allusions are made to public meetings held on her account; but no report is made of the meetings, because that information was given fully in the newspapers sent to her friends with the letters. Some knowledge of the general tone and spirit of the meetings seems necessary, in order to put the readers of the letters in as favorable a position to appreciate them as her friends were when they were received. Such knowledge it is the object of this introductory chapter to furnish. One or two of the addresses at each of several meetings I have given, and generally without alteration, as they appeared in the public journals at the time. Only a very few could be published without occupying altogether too much space; and those selected are for the most part the shortest, and chosen mainly on account of their brevity. This is cer |
