As I Remember / Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century

The author recounts personal recollections of nineteenth-century American social life, beginning with a childhood on Long Island and moving through schooling and urban society in New York. She describes salons, fashions, family anecdotes including the presence of enslaved people on earlier estates, and encounters with prominent figures of the capital and diplomatic circles. Chapters cover marriage, a sojourn abroad in China, wartime experiences during the Civil War, regional visits in the South, and later reflections on changing manners, education, and domestic customs. The tone blends anecdote, social observation, and family memory to trace cultural shifts across a long life.