1907

Autobiographical Dictation 6 January 1907

  • Description: That reminds me....

Autobiographical Dictation 9 January 1907

  • Description: There has been an incident....

Autobiographical Dictation 15 January 1907

  • Description: The human race was always interesting....

Autobiographical Dictation 17 January 1907

  • Description: Helen Keller dined with us yesterday evening....

Autobiographical Dictation 22 January 1907

  • Description: In an earlier chapter I inserted....

Autobiographical Dictation 23 January 1907

  • Description: The proverb says that Providence protects children....

Autobiographical Dictation 28 January 1907

  • Description: In the middle of the afternoon, day before yesterday....

Autobiographical Dictation 29 January 1907

  • Description: Those hand readings were made two years ago....

Autobiographical Dictation 30 January 1907

  • Description: The political and commercial morals of the United States....

Autobiographical Dictation 1 February 1907

  • Description: Last summer I dictated some remarks....

Autobiographical Dictation 4 February 1907

  • Description: In these days things are happening which bring Bret Harte....

Autobiographical Dictation 11 February 1907

  • Description: Two months ago (December 6) I was dictating....

Autobiographical Dictation 12 February 1907

  • Description: Those stars indicate the long chapter....

Autobiographical Dictation 19 February 1907

  • Description: About thirty-five years ago (1872)....

Autobiographical Dictation 25 February 1907

  • Description: As I have said once or twice already....

Autobiographical Dictation 26 February 1907

  • Description: Last week I started a club....

Autobiographical Dictation 27 February 1907

  • Description: I am not a history maker....

Autobiographical Dictation 28 February 1907

  • Description: The most lurid cause celebre of modern ages....

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 March 1907

  • Description: Isabella Beecher Hooker is dead. I first made her acquaintance about forty years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 March 1907

  • Description: That cunning rascal’s curious history brings back to me, out of the mouldy past...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 March 1907

  • Description: Through Mr. Paine I learn that Jim Gillis is dead. He died aged seventy-seven...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 March 1907

  • Description: I wish to go on for a while cataloguing the things which have happened to me recently...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 March 1907

  • Description: It was my intention to continue and complete the list of important-unimportant happenings...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 April 1907

  • Description: I note with satisfaction that the last survivor of the battle of Navarino is dead...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 April 1907

  • Description: The 'Wapping Alice' story. | At the banquet in honor of Ambassador Tower...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 April 1907

  • Description: I am aware that yesterday's dictation reads like a farcical fairy-tale and looks like an invention...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 April 1907

  • Description: Many months ago I extracted a chapter from the old manuscript-book...

Autobiographical Dictation of 20 April 1907

  • Description: In the morning paper I have once more come across that phrase...

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 May 1907

  • Description: It seems a long time since I have done any dictating; and it really is a long time...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 May 1907

  • Description: A cablegram arrived from England three weeks ago inviting me to come to Oxford...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 May 1907

  • Description: Tuxedo Park is unique—in America. It is what may be called the American San Marino...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 May 1907

  • Description: Through Mr. Paine I learn that Jim Gillis is dead. He died aged seventy-seven...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 May 1907

  • Description: A letter has arrived from a lawyer resident in Sonora, California, which gratifies me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 May 1907

  • Description: I think it is not wise for an emperor, or a king, or a president, to come down into the boxing-ring...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 July 1907

  • Description: I think it is not wise for an emperor, or a king, or a president, to come down...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 July 1907

  • Description: At the railway station in London we had a moment's glimpse...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 July 1907

  • Description: The fine verses quoted in that account are from the hand of Owen Seaman...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 July 1907

  • Description: There was to be a dinner of high dignity that night at one of the colleges...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 August 1907

  • Description: I take this paragraph from an editorial in this morning's World...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 August 1907

  • Description: I met Marie Corelli at a small dinner party in Germany fifteen years ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 August 1907

  • Description: Ashcroft's next note says...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 August 1907

  • Description: Well, to resume from Ashcroft's notes...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 August 1907

  • Description: Ashcroft's note...

Autobiographical Dictation of 23 August 1907

  • Description: It was lively and interesting, was Mr. Henniker Heaton's luncheon...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 August 1907

  • Description: Ashcroft's note...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 August 1907

  • Description: I was not able to go to Whitelaw Reid's afternoon reception of the American contingent...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 August 1907

  • Description: As a pendant to my closing remark of yesterday I wish to insert here, from this morning's paper...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 August 1907

  • Description: The Fourth of July dinner that night was devoured in the great banqueting hall...

Autobiographical Dictation of 30 August 1907

  • Description: Ashcroft's notes...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 August 1907

  • Description: A few days earlier Punch had contained a cartoon in which that illustrious old gentleman...

Autobiographical Dictation of 4 September 1907

  • Description: I shall continue the narrative of my adventures in England pretty soon...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 September 1907

  • Description: Ashcroft's note...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 September 1907

  • Description: The Holy Grail was in the house. A proper spirit of reverence forbade its exhibition...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 September 1907

  • Description: The King's garden party at Windsor...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 September 1907

  • Description: I will resume the English excursion presently, but not yet...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 October 1907

  • Description: Let us get back to England...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 October 1907

  • Description: My industries in England began at Tilbury, with the reporters at eight in the morning...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 October 1907

  • Description: In some ways, I was always honest; even from my earliest years...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 October 1907

  • Description: Robert Porter arrived from England and Oxford a week or ten days ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 October 1907

  • Description: It pains me to note how this world is given to slander...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 October 1907

  • Description: I must get that stupendous fancy out of my head...

Autobiographical Dictation of 11 October 1907

  • Description: Latterly, the newspapers are full of the impending marriage of Gladys...

Autobiographical Dictation of 18 October 1907

  • Description: I believe I have now arrived at that occasion in Vienna already spoken of...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 October 1907

  • Description: Alas, the President has got the cow after all! If it was a cow...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 October 1907

  • Description: Mr. O called, and left the regards of Baron Tauchnitz...

Autobiographical Dictation of 1 November 1907

  • Description: It is like a breath of fresh air in the Black Hole of Calcutta...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 December 1907

  • Description: Yesterday I had a message for Andrew Carnegie...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 December 1907

  • Description: I have been leading a quiet and wholesome life now...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 December 1907

  • Description: The Carnegie Institute will be Carnegie's best monument...