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

Chapter 43: Transcriber's Notes
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About This Book

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.

Transcriber's Notes

Page 7: Comberland amended to Cumberland

Page 11: distingushed amended to distinguished; Semminaries sic

Page 29: Hayti sic

Page 52: Berault amended to Bérault

Page 53: Venitian sic

Page 75: Tuilleries amended to Tuileries

Page 76: racoon sic

Page 80: "home Gouverneur Kemble" sic

Page 93: dintinguished amended to distinguished

Page 123: eariler amended to earlier

Page 129: editon amended to edition

Page 155: strongely amended to strongly

Page 157: unsually amended to unusually; it amended to its ("Brook Farm had its origin....")

Page 185: Angustine amended to Augustine

Page 186: Bucknor's sic

Page 227: Palmerson amended to Palmerston

Page 229: Goeffrey Boilleau amended to Geoffrey Boilleau

Page 240: Fort Sumpter sic

Page 244: Belguim amended to Belgium

Page 323: comanding amended to commanding

Page 372: Audenried amended to Audenreid

Page 380: af amended to of ("spirit of acrimony")

Page 384: intercouse amended to intercourse

Page 395: Alfonzo amended to Alfonso

Page 396: Beaujoir amended to Beaujour; Giuseppi amended to Giuseppe

Page 398: Index entry for Mr. and Mrs. Titian T. Coffey removed and replaced by index entry for Mr. and Mrs. Titian J. Coffey.

Page 399: Daponte amended to Da Ponte

Page 405: Everiste amended to Evariste; Kantzou amended to Kantzow

Page 408: Marquard amended to Marquand; Isaiah Masten amended to Josiah Masters

Page 409: Lathrop amended to Lothrop

Page 410: Palmerson amended to Palmerston

Page 414: Thackaray amended to Thackeray

Page 415: Louis Vavans (p. 175) has been indexed as Louis Vivans.

Hyphenation has generally been standardized. However, when a word appears hyphenated and unhyphenated an equal number of times, both versions have been retained (churchyard/ church-yard; earrings/ear-rings; housewarming/house-warming; lifelong/life-long; midday/mid-day; stateroom/state-room; transcontinental/trans-continental; warships/war-ships).

Accented letters have generally been standardized, unless different versions of the word appear an equal number of times (cortege/cortège; resistance/résistance).