University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I

  
[frontispiece]
  
[title page]
  
[dedication]
  
TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
LIST OF PORTRAITS OF THE AUTHOR

collapse section1. 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW DICKSON WHITE PART I ENVIRONMENT AND EDUCATION
 1. 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW DICKSON WHITE CHAPTER I BOYHOOD IN CENTRAL NEW YORK—1832-1850
 2. 
CHAPTER II YALE AND EUROPE—1850-1857
collapse section2. 
PART II POLITICAL LIFE
 3. 
CHAPTER III FROM JACKSON TO FILLMORE—1832-1851
 4. 
CHAPTER IV EARLY MANHOOD—1851-1857
 5. 
CHAPTER V THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD—1857-1864
 6. 
CHAPTER VI SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY—1864-1865
 7. 
CHAPTER VII SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY—1865-1867
 8. 
CHAPTER VIII ROSCOE CONKLING AND JUDGE FOLGER—1867-1868
  
CHAPTER IX GENERAL GRANT AND SANTO DOMINGO—1868-1871
 10. 
CHAPTER X THE GREELEY CAMPAIGN—1872
 11. 
CHAPTER XI GRANT, HAYES, AND GARFIELD—1871-1881
 12. 
CHAPTER XII ARTHUR, CLEVELAND, AND BLAINE—1881-1884
 13. 
CHAPTER XIII HENDRICKS, JOHN SHERMAN, BANCROFT, AND OTHERS—1884-1891
 14. 
CHAPTER XIV McKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT—1891-1904
collapse section3. 
PART III AS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
 15. 
CHAPTER XV LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN—1857-1864
 16. 
CHAPTER XVI UNIVERSITY LIFE IN THE WEST—1857-1864
collapse section4. 
PART IV AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
 17. 
CHAPTER XVII EVOLUTION OF "THE CORNELL IDEA''—1850-1865
 18. 
CHAPTER XVIII EZRA CORNELL—1864-1874
  
CHAPTER XIX ORGANIZATION OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY—1865-1868
 20. 
CHAPTER XX THE FIRST YEARS OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY—1868-1870
 21. 
CHAPTER XXI DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS AT CORNELL—1868-1872
 22. 
CHAPTER XXII FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY COURSES—1870-1872
 23. 
CHAPTER XXIII "COEDUCATION'' AND AN UNSECTARIAN PULPIT—1871-1904
 24. 
CHAPTER XXIV ROCKS, STORMS, AND PERIL—1868-1874
 25. 
CHAPTER XXV CONCLUDING YEARS—1881-1885
collapse section5. 
PART V IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
 26. 
CHAPTER XXVI AS ATTACHé AT ST. PETERSBURG—1854-1855
 27. 
CHAPTER XXVII AS ATTACHé AND BEARER OF DESPATCHES IN WAR-TIME—1855
 28. 
CHAPTER XXVIII AS COMMISSIONER TO SANTO DOMINGO—1871
 29. 
CHAPTER XXIX AS COMMISSIONER TO THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1878
 30. 
CHAPTER XXX AS MINISTER TO GERMANY—1879-1881
 31. 
CHAPTER XXXI MEN OF NOTE IN BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE—1879-1881
 32. 
CHAPTER XXXII MY RECOLLECTIONS OF BISMARCK—1879-1881

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous sectionCHAPTER XXX AS MINISTER TO GERMANY—1879-1881 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I
next section

Another more troublesome class is that of people seeking inheritances. A typical letter, compounded as above, would run somewhat as follows:

previous sectionCHAPTER XXX AS MINISTER TO GERMANY—1879-1881 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I
next section