Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1

Episodes

• 00 - Dedication and Preface

  Episode 0 · 5:57
• 01 - Chapter 1 - The Browns and Stones of Maryland, Thomas Stone, signer of the Declaration, Moncures, Daniels, and Conways of Virginia, Peytons and Washingtons, Liberal principles

  Episode 1 · 21:05
• 02 - Chapter 2 - Our homestead 'Inglewood', School, Conway House, Falmonth, The mulatto hero, Falmouth and its millionaire, Party contests, Family legends, Conway grandparents, 'Erleslie', Methodism

  Episode 2 · 29:20
• 03 - Chapter 3 – Servants, The Preacher's Room, Folklore, The Falmouth witch, Watch Night, Methodist regime, Camp meetings, Immersion of the blacks, Treatment of slaves, Reading the Bible, The serpent

  Episode 3 · 38:52
• 04 - Chapter 4 - Fredericksburg Academy, Charles Dickens in Virginia, The law courts, Judge Moncure, Falmouth church, John Minor, The Methodist Conventicle, St. George's, First religious emotions

  Episode 4 · 32:23
• 05 - Chapter 5 - Dickinson College, The Faculty in 1847, Professor McClintock and the slave-hunters, Student life, 'conversion', Northern and Southern Methodism

  Episode 5 · 29:17
• 06 - Chapter 6 - Politics in Virginia, Roszel, Roy Wilson, John Moncure Daniel, editor of the 'Examiner', First appearance in print

  Episode 6 · 18:56
• 07 - Chapter 7 part 1 - College life, President Peck, A winter adventure, 'The Collegian', First love, Orations at graduation, Secretary of a Southern Rights Society, Law student and deputy clerk, Writing for the press

  Episode 7 · 30:38
• 08 - Chapter 7 part 2 - Crisis wrought by Emerson, Visiting Washington, Listening to the great senators, First pamphlet, 'Free Schools in Virginia', A camp meeting, A banquet at Warrenton to senators

  Episode 8 · 25:14
• 09 - Chapter 8 - Education and slavery, A mob murder, The Agassiz theory of races, Essay on the Negro race, Real conversion, Transcendental Methodism, the Methodist ministry, The Shadrach, First sermons

  Episode 9 · 22:11
• 10 - Chapter 9 - Early ministry and sermons, Probation, Webster, The Supreme Court, The Gaines case, Newman, Samuel Janney, Quaker meeting, Roger Brooke, Fairhill School, Emerson, widows of Adams and Hamilton, Death of Peyton

  Episode 10 · 39:51
• 11 - Chapter 10 - Apostle of slavery, Home and garden, Black Becky, Sermon on Peace, Samuel Tyler, Mental sufferings, Sermons and essays, New creed, Unitarians and Quakers, Sylvester Judd, Leaving Methodism

  Episode 11 · 27:10
• 12 - Chapter 11 - Parting from Methodism, Pains of new birth, John Minor, Influence of Hawthorne, Last sermon, Thackeray, Dr. Crooks, A visit to Concord, Hawthorne, First meeting with Emerson

  Episode 12 · 34:41
• 13 - Chapter 12 - Concord, Thoreau, Oriental books, Persian Desatir, The 'Rose Garden' of Saadi, The Hoars, Mrs. Ripley, Goethe, William Emerson, A spiritist adventure, Agassiz at Harvard College, Emerson in symposium

  Episode 13 · 31:56
• 14 - Chapter 13 part 1 - Concerts and theatres, Mr. and Mrs. Jared Sparks, The Longfellows, J. R. Lowell, Dr. Palfrey, Rev. Dr. Andrews Norton,The Plymouth Rook myth, Theodore Parker

  Episode 14 · 25:44
• 15 - Chapter 13 part 2 - Professor Convers Francis, Professor G. R. Noyes, The Unitarian clergy, Emerson at Divinity Hall, His influence on students

  Episode 15 · 25:33
• 16 - Chapter 14 - Divinity School, Fugitive slave, Sylvester Judd, Preaching, Miss Upham's boarders, Experience as proctor, A curious theft, Antislavery gathering, Sojourner Truth, Thoreau's speech, Garrison burns the Constitution

  Episode 16 · 33:17
• 17 - Chapter 15 part 1 - First sermons at Washington, Settlement at Washington, Preaching at Richmond and Charlottesville, Expelled from Falmouth for abolitionism, Letters from Rev. Dr. Burnap

  Episode 17 · 23:46
• 18 - Chapter 15 part 2 - Installation at Washington, Polemic about a Fast Day, Antecedents of the Washington church, Its eminent members, Chief Justice Cranch, Helen Hunt, President Pierce

  Episode 18 · 20:24
• 19 - Chapter 16 part 1 - Ante-bellum Washington, Incongruities, The McGuires, Benoni, Lewis Cass, Jefferson Davis, Seward, John P. Hale, Charles Sumner, General Winfield Scott, Science and literature, Salmon P. Chase

  Episode 19 · 18:51
• 20 - Chapter 16 part 2 - Dr. Bailey, Longfellow's 'Hiawatha', Ministerial experiences, Walt Whitman, The world burden, Gerald Fitzgerald

  Episode 20 · 26:55
• 21 - Chapter 17 part 1 - The slavery issue in Washington, Proslavery lecture, Petition to the Virginia Legislature, Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Fugitive Slave Law - Distress in the church caused by preaching

  Episode 21 · 43:13
• 22 - Chapter 17 part 2 - Assault on Sumner, The Fremont campaign, Presentiment of civil war, Fatal sermon, Letters from Emerson and Channing, Letters of approval, Farewell sermon

  Episode 22 · 50:29
• 23 - Chapter 18 part 1 - Settlement in Cincinnati, The Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Taney, Stanley Matthews, Alphonzo Taft, Literary Club, Theatres, Visit of the Prince, Fanny Kemble, Relics of the Visionaries

  Episode 23 · 30:26
• 24 - Chapter 18 part 2 - Memnona, The village 'Modern Times', Germans in Cincinnati, August Willich, Judge Stallo, First book, Ministry, Sacrament, Emerson in Cincinnati, Archbishop Purcell, Lane Seminary

  Episode 24 · 29:45
• 25 - Chapter 19 part 1 - Unitarians and slavery, Rabbi Wise, The Abbe Miel, Free lances of the pulpit, Literary studies, Evolution, Darwin's work, Emerson in Cincinnati

  Episode 25 · 27:13
• 26 - Chapter 19 part 2 - Edward Everett, Marriage, Robert Collyer, The woman movement, Chess, Paul Morphy

  Episode 26 · 15:01
• 27 - Chapter 20 part 1 - A spiritualist apostle, Theodore Parker, Unitarian alumni, The raid of John Brown, The 'infidels', Investigating 'Tom Paine', Sermon on Paine, Secession from my church, The monthly 'Dial'

  Episode 27 · 43:35
• 28 - Chapter 20 part 2 - The monthly 'Dial', W. D. Howells, Tale of Excalibur, Frothingham's articles, Letter of Emerson and his contributions, Notable papers, The welcome to Hawthorne

  Episode 28 · 25:58
• 29 - Chapter 21 part 1 - Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati, Antislavery men, Emerson, Sermon against war, Outbreak of war

  Episode 29 · 22:10
• 30 - Chapter 21 part 2 - Delusions about Fort Sumter, Liberty in peril, Sumner and Furness, Wendell Phillips, The Bull Run rout, Emerson and the Saturday Club, Horace Greeley, Frothingham and Beecher, Lectures in Ohio

  Episode 30 · 33:44
• 31 - Chapter 22 part 1 - The Rejected Stone, General Fremont, Letter from Channing, Lecture in Washington, Talk with President Lincoln, Emerson, Lowell, Seward, Senator Sumner, An arraignment of war

  Episode 31 · 33:10
• 32 - Chapter 22 part 2 - Wendell Phillips mobbed in Cincinnati, Unitarian Conference, Leaving Cincinnati, Our home in Virginia, Carrying our slaves to Ohio, Troubles in Baltimore, Laura Bridgman, A poem by Julia Ward Howe

  Episode 32 · 32:14
• 33 - Chapter 23 part 1 - The 'Commonwealth', Hymn for a new Advent, Watch Night in the African church, Lecture tour in New York, The President's Proclamation, Deputation to the President, My sermon before the Senate

  Episode 33 · 30:41
• 34 - Chapter 23 part 2 - Interview with Lincoln, Disheartened leaders, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne in Concord, 1862-63

  Episode 34 · 21:32
• 35 - Chapter 24 - Foreign complications, The Voyage to England, Mill on Liberty, Welcome in London, Sojourn at Aubrey House, Miss Cobbe, W. M. Evarts, Cambridge University, Henry Fawcett and Leslie Stephen

  Episode 35 · 14:44
• 36 - Chapter 25 - First interviews with the Carlyles, Carlyle's ridicule of ballot-boxing, His appearance, Introducing Americans to Carlyle, Samuel Longfellow, Carlyle's progress, Ideas of religion

  Episode 36 · 27:36
• 37 - Chapter 26 part 1 - English authors and the American war, Ruskin on war, English republicans, John M. Forbes in London, The Confederate propagandists, The Confederate envoy Mason, Communication of Lincoln to Bright

  Episode 37 · 31:57
• 38 - Chapter 26 part 2 - Speeches in London, John Bright, A mob in Manchester, Letter to the London 'Times', Misleading reports in America, Criticism by Wendell Phillips, Cranch in Paris, The charms of Venice, Austrian rule

  Episode 38 · 35:26
• 39 - Chapter 27 part 1 - Interview with Minister Adams, Sermons at South Place chapel, Beecher in London, Rev Maurice, Maurice's novel, 'Eustace Conway', Madox Brown, America in the pantomimes, Professor Newman and his Catholic brother

  Episode 39 · 27:11
• 40 - Chapter 27 part 2 - Letters and talks of Professor Newman, Dr. Newman in his oratory, Elizabeth Garrett studying medicine, Mrs. Fawcett, Legal disabilities of women

  Episode 40 · 18:18