My memories of eighty years

Childhood and youth

In public life

Abraham Lincoln

General Grant

Roscoe Conkling

Horace Greeley

Rutherford B. Hayes and William M. Evarts

General Garfield

Chester A. Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

James G. Blaine

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

United Sates Senate

Ambassadors and ministers

Governors of New York State

Fifteen years with the New York Central Railroad Company

Recollections from abroad

Orators and campaign speakers

National Republican conventions

Journalists and financiers

Actors and men of letters

Societies and public banquets.