THIRTY YEARS OF MY LIFE ON THREE CONTINENTS VOL. 1 By Edwin De Leon Excerpt from Contents CHAPTER I Apology for Writing Reminiscences Have seen and known so many Places and People My Parents and Early Training Is the Child the Father of the Man? Incident in Illustration The South Carolina University, Dr. Cooper President Dr. Lieber, Biographer of Professor Niebuhr Our Home Circle CHAPTER II Life on the old Plantation Thirty Years Ago Christmas in the Country White and Black, Master and Slave, how they live together Some Anecdotes of Negro Character, and of Southern Life CHAPTER III Early Wanderings Visit to Joseph Smith (Mormon Prophet) at Nauvoo, the original Holy City Arrival, Reception, and Treatment by the Prophet and the Saints What I Saw and Heard there from Both Personal Peculiarities of the Prophet Finale of Prophet and City CHAPTER IV My early Legal and Literary Experiences, Drift into Politics and Literature Invited to Washington by Southern Members of Congress to Co-operate with Them Washington and its Worthies in the Olden Times Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Soule, and his Duel with the French Ambassador at Madrid Sam Houston and Crockett CHAPTER V Literary, Scientific and Artistic Celebrities at Washington Hawthorne, Morse, Longfellow, W. K. Story, O. W. Holmes, &c. Friendship between President Pierce and Hawthorne My Reminiscences of Hawthorne in America, and in Italy His Introduction of the Marble Faun to me in the Vatican CHAPTER VI My first Glimpses of Lotos Land Seven days in a Dahabieh between Alexandria and Cairo Nights on the Nile Cairo as it then was My Official Reception by the Viceroy A Quarrel with the Viceroy A Strange History and its Sequel CHAPTER VII Shepheard’s Hotel in the Olden Time Making acquaintance of a Remarkable Arab, then fresh from Mecca! My English Colleague Sir Frederic Bruce We spent Summer at Cairo in Old Palaces, in Oriental fashion Our Mode of Life CHAPTER VIII Curious Characters at Shepheard’s Thirty Years Ago Dr. Abbott Burton De Lesseps CHAPTER IX My Protection of Greek Colony Exciting Incidents What it meant Liberal Offers What Protection means in the East Dramas in Real Life CHAPTER X Visit Greece on Invitation of the King What I saw there The Athens of Thirty Years Ago, and the Court and People Reminiscences Decorated with the Order of San Sauveur Athens now and then… —————————————————————————————————————————————— Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.