INTRODUCTORY.

Letter I.
The Voyage.

Letter II. 
Liverpool.—­The Dingle.—­A Ragged School.—­Flowers.—­Speke
Hall.—­Antislavery Meeting.

Letter III. 
Lancashire.—­Carlisle.—­Gretna Green.—­Glasgow.

Letter IV. 
The Baillie.—­The Cathedral.—­Dr. Wardlaw.—­A Tea Party—­Bothwell
Castle.—­Chivalry.—­Scott and Burns.

Letter V.
Dumbarton Castle.—­Duke of Argyle.—­Linlithgow.—­Edinburgh.

Letter vi. 
Public Soiree.—­Dr. Guthrie.—­Craigmiller Castle.—­Bass
Rock.—­Bannockburn.—­Stirling.—­Glamis Castle.—­Barclay of Ury.—­The
Dee.—­Aberdeen.—­The Cathedral.—­Brig o’Balgounie.

Letter VII. 
Letter from a Scotch Bachelor.—­Reformatory Schools of
Aberdeen.—­Dundee.—­Dr. Dick.—­The Queen in Scotland.

Letter VIII. 
Melrose.—­Dry burgh.—­Abbotsford.

Letter IX. 
Douglas of Caver.—­Temperance Soiree.—­Calls.—­Lord Gainsborough.—­Sir
William Hamilton.—­George Combe.—­Visit to Hawthornden.—­Roslin
Castle.—­The Quakers.—­Hervey’s Studio.—­Grass Market.—­Grayfriars’
Churchyard.

Letter X.
Birmingham.—­Stratford on Avon.

Letter XI. 
Warwick.—­Kenilworth.

Letter XII. 
Birmingham.—­Sybil Jones.—­J.A.  James.

Letter XIII. 
London.—­Lord Mayor’s Dinner.

Letter XIV. 
London.—­Dinner with Earl of Carlisle.

Letter XV. 
London.—­Anniversary of Bible Society.—­Dulwich Gallery.—­Dinner with
Mr. E. Cropper.—­Soiree at Rev. Mr. Binney’s.

Letter XVI. 
Reception at Stafford House.

Letter XVII. 
The Sutherland Estate.

Letter XVIII. 
Baptist Noel.—­Borough School.—­Rogers the Poet.—­Stafford
House.—­Ellesmere Collection of Paintings.—­Lord John Russell.

INTRODUCTORY

The following letters were written by Mrs. Stowe for her own personal friends, particularly the members of her own family, and mainly as the transactions referred to in them occurred.  During the tour in England and Scotland, frequent allusions are made to public meetings held on her account; but no report is made of the meetings, because that information, was given fully in the newspapers sent to her friends with the letters.  Some knowledge of the general tone and spirit of the meetings seems necessary, in order to put the readers of the letters in as favorable a position to appreciate them as her friends were when they were received.  Such knowledge it is the object of this introductory chapter to furnish.