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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2, credited to Moncure Daniel Conway, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 by Moncure Daniel Conway. Read in English by Guero; JoeD; KHand; Larry Wilson; Lucretia B.; Lynne Thompson; Margaret Espaillat; Michele Fry; Arlene Joyce; Roger Melin Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2
• Author credits: Moncure Daniel Conway
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 17:50:44

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01 - Chapter 28 part 1 - Discussions in London concerning slavery and the Negro - Testimonies Concerning Slavery - Commemoration of John Brown - Charles Dickens - The Shakespeare tercentenary at Stratford-on-Avon — 22:55
2. 02 - Chapter 28 part 2 - Death of Emerson - Dr Strauss - Residence at Notting Hill - J.S Mill - Helen Taylor — 20:03
3. 03 - Chapter 29 part 1 - My reviews of Browning - The wrapper of his poems - Carlyle’s account of the marriage of the Brownings - Browning’s father - Mr. Sludge, the Medium - Margaret Fuller Ossoli — 16:33
4. 04 - Chapter 29 part 2 - The sisters Eliza and Sarah Flower, Browning and W.J. Fox - Tennyson at Farringford - Mrs. Cameron - The Promise of May - Tennyson’s dread of agnosticism and orthodoxy — 34:52
5. 05 - Chapter 30 part 1 - Settlement at South Place chapel - London City in 1864 - Executions at the Old Bailey - Open air debates at Smithfield - G.J. Holyoake - Collet - Letter from Horace Greeley — 17:41
6. 06 - Chapter 30 part 2 - Unitarianism in England - J.J. Taylor - Martineau - Comparison of Martineau and Emerson - Dr. Aspland - My new Christ - Collectivist deity - The ethics of skepticism - W.J. Fox — 33:07
7. 07 - Chapter 31 part 1 - The Taylors of Aubrey House - Pen and Pencil Club - The Hon. James Stansfeld, M.P. - Mazzini - Gallenga - Garibaldi in England - Hustling Garibaldi out of England — 18:09
8. 08 - Chapter 31 part 2 - Mazzini’s talks and letters - Mazzini’s religion - Carlyle’s talk about Mazzini - Karl Blind - Ferdinand Blind’s attempt on Bismark - Mathilde Blind — 16:16
9. 09 - Chapter 32 part 1 - Parliament - Broughham, Russel, Derby, Dufferin - Aristocracy - Robert Lowe - Shaftesbury - Disraeli - Palmerson - Bulwer — 29:09
10. 10 - Chapter 32 part 2 - Gladstone - Cobden - His acquaintance with Jefferson Davis - Cobden’s death - The funeral of Palmerson - The death of President Lincoln - Letters from Sumner - His attack on England — 34:24
11. 11 - Chapter 33 part 1 - Lord Rector Carlyle in Edinburgh - The address - Dinner at Erskine’s - Carlyle talks of his life - Talk with Dr. Carlyle — 25:02
12. 12 - Chapter 33 part 2 - Lord Neave, Dundas, Carlyle - Dr William Smith - Robert Chambers - Death of Mrs. Carlyle - Ruskin and Carlyle - The Kingsleys - John Burroughs and Carlyle about birds — 32:08
13. 13 - Chapter 34 part 1 - Ruskin - Carlyle and Ruskin - Ruskin’s lectures - Contemporary art - A Caution to Snakes - The Rossettis - Dante Rossetti’s 'Nonsense Verses' - Rossetti’s 'Mary Virgin' — 23:58
14. 14 - Chapter 34 part 2 - Mary Magdalene - Rev. Dr. Storrs - The Gate of Memory - Dante and Beatrice - The fall of the leaf - Religion and Preraphaelists - Holman Hunt - Ford and Oliver Madox Brown — 27:28
15. 15 - Chapter 35 part 1 - Artimus Ward - Tom Robertson - Allingham - Mrs. Allingham and Carlyle - Charles Dickens — 14:21
16. 16 - Chapter 35 part 2 - Mark Twain - Lord Lytton - Church and Stage Guild - Toole - Joseph Jefferson - the Daily News - U.S. Minister Johnson - Motley - Sir Henry Taylor - Lady Taylor - Wordsworth and Tennyson — 37:10
17. 17 - Chapter 35 part 3 - Mrs. Call and George Eliot - Mrs. Bray of Coventry - Emerson - Omar Khayyam Club - Edward Fitzgerald - George Eliot and G.H. Lewes - Mark Twain in London - Dr. and Mrs. Humphrey Sandwith — 28:35
18. 18 - Chapter 36 part 1 - Paris - Exposition 1867 - Emperor and Empress - Maximilian - July 4 - Tallandier - Ledru Rollin - Louis Blanc - Anti-Russian feeling — 21:15
19. 19 - Chapter 36 part 2 - Stockholm - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Professor Buslaef - Eugene Schuyler - Baronial hospitality - Among the peasants - Traveling with the Czar - Nijni-Novgorod Fair — 14:44
20. 20 - Chapter 37 - London scientific circle - Fossil man - Kent’s Cave - A phenomenal mummy - The burial of Lyell in the Abbey - Sir William Grove - Professor Tyndall - Professor Huxley - Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker - Scientific maidens - My Glastonbury thorn - A geological ramble in the Weald — 28:11
21. 21 - Chapter 38 part 1 - James Anthony Froude -Working with Froude on Fraser’s magazine - His early experiences - Letters of Froude - Scepticism - Experiences in Ireland - Froude’s biography of Carlyle — 24:09
22. 22 - Chapter 38 part 2 - The funeral of Carlyle - Two serious errors in the biography of Carlyle - Impressions of Mrs. Carlyle - My love of Froude — 17:40
23. 23 - Chapter 39 part 1 - Belgium at the outbreak of the Franco-German war (1870) - Paris and the theatrical war - Strasburg camps - Basle - The International League - Freiburg - The female telegraph corps — 29:50
24. 24 - Chapter 39 part 2 - Rastadt, Carlsruhe, in war time - The King and Bismarck at St. Avold - The battle of Gravelotte - Otto Gunther - A dreadful night - Travelling on the car roof - Bonaparte in Hell — 32:53

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