AS I REMEMBER

Mrs. Gouverneur.

AS I REMEMBER

Recollections of American Society
during the Nineteenth Century

BY

MARIAN GOUVERNEUR

illustrated

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1911

Copyright, 1911, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

to the memory of

MY FATHER

Judge James Campbell

whose benign influence i still feel

and to

MY HUSBAND

Samuel L. Gouverneur, Jr.

the companion and pillar of strength
of my later years

THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED

PREFACE

The rambling personal notes threaded together in these pages were written at the urgent request of my family, and have provided a pleasant diversion during otherwise lonely hours. The idea of their publication was highly distasteful to me until the often repeated importunities of many of those whose judgment commands my respect persuaded me that some of the facts and incidents I have recalled would prove of interest to a large circle of readers. The narrative is concerned with persons and events that have interested me during the busy hours of a lengthy life. I have been deeply impressed by the changes wrought by time in the modes of education, which are now so much at variance with those of my childhood, and in the manners and customs of those with whom I have mingled.

I should be guilty of an act of grave injustice if I failed to express my grateful acknowledgments for the aid so unselfishly rendered, in a score of ways, by my daughter, Mrs. Roswell Randall Hoes, without which these pages would not, and could not, have been written.

M. Gouverneur.

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