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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ Contributed by Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net *************************************************************************** The Life of Charles Loring Brace Chiefly Told in His Own Letters Edited by His Daughter With Portraits New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1894 Copyright, 1894, by Charles Scribner's Sons To My Mother CONTENTS CHAPTER I Birth and Parentage --- His Aunts --- Pursuits and Early Education --- Boyish Journal --- College --- College Letters ---The Family Circle -- - His Sister Emma's Letters --- College and Vacation Letters --- Discussions in College --- College Friendships 1 CHAPTER II Decision to enter the Ministry--- Teaching at Ellington and Winchendon --- Letters on his Reading --- Earnest Resolves --- Visit in New Milford --- Theological Year in New Haven --- Letters --- Period of Speculation --- Theological Letters --- Miscellaneous Letters --- Letter on Friendships 29 CHAPTER III From New Haven to New York --- William Colt's Death --- Life in New York --- Staten Island --- Speculation and Discussion carried on there and in New York --- Wendell Phillips --- Letters --- Studies, and Blackwell's Island --- Emma's Illness, and Visit to Cambridge --- Emma's Death --- Charles's Agony of Grief 68 CHAPTER IV Journey Abroad --- Walking Trip in Ireland --- Letter on the German Sunday --- The Rhine and Edinburgh --- Letter on Socialism ---Decision to remain in Germany --- German Experiences and Study --- Olmsted Letters --- Miscellaneous Letters, and Opinions on the Fugitive Slave Law --- Desire for a Deeper Life ---Tired of Travelling 89 CHAPTER V Plan of going to Hungary --- Prague --- Vienna Letters --- Starts for Hungary down the Danube --- Sentiment for Hungary ---Journey to Gross Wardein --- Imprisonment --- Letters from Prison ---Release ---Olmsted Letters ---Feeling of Austrian Injustice --- Trieste ---Liverpool --- Return and Lectures ---Book on Hungary ---Book on Germany --- Episode with "C." 122 CHAPTER VI Decision to enter Philanthropic Work ---Efforts among Adults ---Boys' Meetings ---Insufficiency of these Efforts ---Organization of Children's Aid Society ---First Circular ---Immediate Response of Children --- Workshops --- Letters in Children's Aid Society --- Failure of First Effort ---Workshops --- Industrial Schools --- Need of Outside Help in starting Schools ---Objection to Raffles, etc. --- Organization of Fourth Ward Schools ---Homeless Boys --- Lodging House --- What to do with the Homeless --- Emigration versus Asylums --- Difficulties --- Immediate Success of Effort --- Miscellaneous Letters 163 CHAPTER VII Opening of First Lodging --- House for Newsboys --- Sunday Evening Meetings ---One Year's Experience with Lodging House --- Personal Relations with the Poor --- Notes of Lectures on Children's Aid Society --- Miscellaneous Letters ---Journey to Ireland, and Marriage --- Aim of Society and Principles --- Success of Emigration ---Success of Schools ---Volunteers ---Letters to his Wife ---Organization of Italian School --- Miscellaneous Letters --- Trip to England and Norway --- Reflections on Loneliness of the Poor ---Natural Results of Neglect of Poor Children --- Kindness of Adopted Mothers in the West - -- Opposition to Emigration --- Journey to the West ---Letters to his Wife 186 CHAPTER VIII Miscellaneous Letters ---Appeal for a Night School for Girls --- Organization of the School --- Similar Associations in Other Cities -- - Desire for Workers among Young Men --- Letters and Papers written during the Civil War ---Letters from Greeley and Seward --- Mr. Brace goes South on the Christian Commission --- New President of Children's Aid Society --- Organization of First Girls' Lodging-House 222 CHAPTER IX Ethnological Book ---Progress of Children's Aid Society in Spite of the War --- Death of Mrs. Schuyler --- Letter to a Trustee of Children's Aid Society explaining Mr. Brace's Right to Private Views as a Private Individual --- Plans for English Journey --- Lincoln's Death --- Experience in England ---English Lack of Sympathy in the War --- In the Tyrol --- Miscellaneous Letters --- Illness ---California Trip Death of Miss Neill --- Death of Mr. Loring ---Progress of Society's Work --- Newsboys' Lodging-House --- Letter Beecher --- Darwinism --- Factory Children 256 CHAPTER X Dangerous Classes of New York ---Visit to England Delegate to Congress on Reform --- Darwin ---Visit to Hungary Twentieth Annual Report --- Death of Mr. Brace's Father --- Death of John Stuart Mill --- "Soup- kitchen" Episode --- Children's Summer Home of Children's Aid Society 308 CHAPTER XI Mr. Brace's New House --- Life in the Woods --- Charges against Children's Aid Society --- Miscellaneous Letters --- To a Young Ms. on Faith ---On the Strikes --- Study and Work Miscellaneous Letters --- Correspondence Coming Book --- Death of his Brother ---Trip Society Details --- Death of Mr. Macy 342 CHAPTER XII "Gesta Christi" ---Letters about "Gesta Christi" ---Controversy with Miss Lazarus --- Letters on New Studies Visit of Mr. Mozoomdar --- Mr. Brace's Devotional Readings at Home --- Sanitarium --- Letter from Mr. Mozoomdar ---Political and Miscellaneous Letters ---Preparations for New Book 384 CHAPTER XIII English Sojourn ---Summary of the Children's Aid Society ---Letters -- Thirty-fifth Annual Report--- Death of Friends of the Society --- Letters on his Coming Book ---Death of Dr. Gray --- Letter on Inspiration of the Scriptures --- Letters ---Effort to Prevent the Admission of Boys to Men's Lodging-Houses --- Marienbad ---Switzerland 426 CHAPTER XIV Bryce's Book --- Death of Mr. Skinner ---Letter from Virginia --- Adirondack Trip --- Last Report --- Letters --- Letters on "The Unknown God --- Offers of his Son to come to New York as his Father's Assistant --- Last Journey --- The Dolomites --- St. Moritz --- His Increasing Weakness --- Death 454 APPENDICES 489