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Gates, Lizzie Young, of Utah, xxiii

George, Henry, single tax, 538

Gibson, Charles Dana, 481

Gibson Brothers, 208

Gilbert, John, 309

Gilder, Richard Watson, 382, 384, 390, 495

Gilfillan, Judge, of Minneapolis, 421

Gilman, President Johns Hopkins University, 432, 433

Gilmore, P. S., greatest manager of his time, 361;
organizes Gilmore’s band, 361;
conceives and carries to success the World’s Great Peace Jubilee, 361-369

Gladstone, 65;
my three visits to him, 348, 349

Gordon, Capt. W. H., 291

Gordon, Rev. Dr. George H., 434

Gough, Beecher, and Philips, triumvirate of lecture kings, 1

Gough, John B., xxii;
as a lecturer, 1-6, 420, 427;
as a man, 5, 141, 170, 193, 539, 540, 541, 542

Grant, General U. S., xxi, 20, 21, 323-325

Grant, Principal, 415, 417

Greeley, Horace, 189, 190, 191, 346

Greer, Rev. Dr. David H., 123, 126

Grey, Annie, Scotch minstrelsy, 172;
many American triumphs, 174-176;
made Scottish chief in Boston, 174

Grey, Madame Ogilvie, 172

Grey, Rev. Dr. Richmond, 45

Gunsaulus, Rev. Dr., 418, 551

Halderman, J. A., 384

Hale, Edward Everett, 391, 482, 539, 551

Hall, Rev. Dr. Charles H., 74

Hall, Rev. John, 384

Halsted, Murat, 277, 383, 384

Harper, President Chicago University, 395

Hathaway and Pond, 543

Hathaway, George H., xxv, 38, 40

Hawthorne, 125, 386

Henson, Peary’s servant, 298

Herbert, M. Ledyer, 31

Heron-Allen, London barrister, 357;
heard him in London, 357;
New York society favorite, 358;
chirosophist, 358;
novelist, 359;
pet of Putney, 360

Hewitt, Abram S., 506

Higginson, T. W., 174, 391-551

Hill, James, 422

Hillis, Rev. Newell Dwight, 82, 83;
estimate, 83, 84, 139, 550

Hinton, Richard J., 190

Hoge, Jane O., 155

Hole, Dean of Rochester--his visit to America--visits
Sarony--king of rose growers, 122;
speech at Lotos Club dinner, 124;
Mrs. Pond and I visit Rochester, 127;
a dean behind the scenes, 128

Holmes, John, Editor Boston _Herald_, 391

Holmes, Judge, 482

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 125, 384, 483

Hood, General, 536

Hooper, Franklin W., 512

Hope, Anthony, how discovered, 477;
first American appearance, 478;
incidents of tour, 479-481;
in Detroit, 481;
speech before Lotos Club, 483;
Chinese dinner, 485;
letters to Major Pond, 486, 487, 522

Houston, Col. Sam, 147

Hovey, Rev. Alva, 434

Howard, John, pianist, 547

Howe, Julia Ward, 143, 147, 539, 544;
tribute to, 147-151;
speech at Medal of Honor Legion, 149, 150, 228;
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 151, 330

Howells, William Dean, Mark Twain’s prophecy, 333;
his Western success, 340, 524;
letters to Major Pond, 336, 384

Howland, William B., 81

Howson, Dean of Chester, 68

Hubbard, Elbert, described, 368-371

Hudson, “Sol,” 30

Hughes, Rev. Hugh Price, 273

Huntington, C. P., 55, 56, 57

Huxley, Professor, 116

Ingersoll, Robert G., tribute, 27, 28

Irving, Sir Henry, 132;
advancement to knighthood, 312;
visits Beecher, 309, 313

Irving, Washington, 123

Isaacs, Prospect House, Niagara Falls, 428

James, Col. E. C., 384

Jefferson, Joseph, 229, 305, 309, 383, 482

Jephson, Lieutenant, 272

Jerome, Jerome K., 477, 478

Jordan, Ebin, 362

Johnson, Governor of Alabama, 32

Johnston, R. U., 382

Karl, Tom, 169

Kellogg, Clara Louise, 143;
first appearance in opera, 163;
her home, 163;
her brilliant career, 164, 207, 427

Kendall, Mr. and Mrs., 128

Kennan, George, 289, 290, 548

King, Thomas Star, 551

Kingsley, Canon Charles, 118, 123, 188

Kipling, Rudyard, 227, 525;
letter to Pond, 526

Klaw and Erlanger, managers, 466

Klopsch, Talmage’s Boswell, 111

Knowles, Judge, 213

Knowles, Rev. Ottawa, 414, 415

Knox, Col. Thomas W., 384

Kruger, Stanley’s letter on, 285, 289

Labouchere, London _Truth_, 117

Latham, Owner Gad’s Hill, 127

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 414, 415

Lawrence, Frank R., 123, 384, 411, 436, 504

Lee, William, 105

Leech, John, artist, 123

Le Sage, of London _Daily Telegraph_, 175

Letitia, old servant, 50, 51

Lincoln, Abraham, 155, 194

Literary lecturers, 323

Livermore, Mary A., xxii, 143;
first saw her, 155;
her great work, 155-160;
letters to J. B. Pond, 159, 160, 228, 330, 539, 540, 544

Livingstone, Colonel William, of Detroit _Journal_, 481

Lobb, John, 92, 94

Lombard, Frank, 166

Longfellow, Henry W., 125, 556

Lord, Dr. John, lecturer, 551

Low, Seth, President Columbia University, 384, 390, 411, 506, 542

Lowell, James Russell, 135, 138, 382, 390, 539

Mabie, Hamilton W., 81;
as a lecturer and orator, 329, 411, 507

McArthur, Rev. Dr. James, 123

McCarthy, Justin, 175

McConnell, C. H., 426, 427

McCullagh, John, 309

McElroy, William H., 384, 506

McGill, James, 345

McKean, Chief Justice Utah, xxi

McKean, James, 149

McKelway, St. Clair, 383, 384, 387, 542

McKinley, President, at Tuskegee, 32, 481

McLean, Iowa State University, 334

McMeakin, 49

McQuade, Hugh, 213

McVicker, J. H., 549

Maginnis, Major, 213

Matthews, Brander, 390

Mayo, Frank, 228, 229

Miller, Joaquin, poet and lecturer, 510, 511

Moffett, Sam, 221

Moretti’s, at dinner, 238

Morrison, Rev. S. G., 70, 210

Morton, O. P., 8

Murdoch, James E., 539

Murphy, John Miller, 216

Murray, David Christie, 506

Nansen, explorer, 299

Nasby, Petroleum V. (David S. Locke), 192, 226, 542

Nast, Thomas, caricaturist, 188;
how he came to lecture, 189-192

Neil, Father, 330

Neilson, Adelaide, 309

Nelson, Captain, 272

Nichols, Miss Clara, 547

Nicoll, Dr. Robertson, 406, 407

Norton, Lillian, singer, 467

Nye and Riley, 242-259;
scene on cars, 250

Nye, Bill (Edgar Wilson Nye), 237;
first meeting--Laramie _Boomerang_, 237;
first visit to New York, 237;
lecture in Bridgeport, 238;
autobiography, 241;
Nye’s letters to me, 244-249, 508, 527

O’Donovan, Edward, 290

Ogden, Willis L., 149

Olivier, Herbert, artist, 123

Olney, Secretary of State, 283, 432

O’Rell, Max (M. Paul Blouet), 234, 235, 384, 527;
his Chicago surprise, 227, 408

O’Reilly, John Boyle, 326-328

Osborn, Gov. Thomas A., 49

Page, Thomas Nelson, 227, 482, 508, 521, 522, 523

Park, Dr., with Stanley, 272

Parker, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph, 63, 114

Parker, Rev. Dr. Joseph, City Temple, 65, 67, 85;
Mr. Beecher’s friend--eulogy on Beecher in America, 79;
lecture tour, 85-89;
comparison with Beecher, 87, 95, 108, 112, 276

Parker, Theodore, 1, 11, 39, 147, 551

Parnell, Charles Stewart, 365

Parsons, Hon. William, 347

Pasha, Emin, 270, 278

Pate, Henry Clay, 537

Payson, Edward, 547

Peary, Mrs., 297, 298

Peary, Robert E., explorer, 293, 295, 296, 297, 299, 548

Peck, George R., to whom this book is dedicated, 49

Peel, Sir Robert, 9

Perry, Thomas Sargent, 337-339

Peschka, Leutiner, Mme., 364

Phillips, Adelaide, 364, 556

Phillips, Walter P., 384

Phillips, Wendell, xxii, 1;
tribute as lecturer and orator, 7-12;
his memory, 8;
his door-plate, 8;
tablet to his memory on site of old homestead, 10;
repertoire of lectures, 11, 13, 141, 226, 539, 540, 541

Pierce, Harold, 430

Pond, J. B., autobiography, xvii;
printer’s devil, xvii, xix;
journeyman printer, xx;
letter to _The Baptist_ on Spurgeon and Beecher, 115

Pond, Mrs., 279

Poor, Ben Perley, 190

Porter, Gen. Horace, as an orator, 23-26;
speech before Lotos Club, 24-26, 411, 527, 529, 542

Potter, Bishop Henry C., 121

Potter, Helen, 143;
Lyceum impersonator, 170

Powell, W. T., Richmond theatre, 43, 44, 45

Prescott, C. H., 215

Proctor, Miss Mary, 143, 178;
her sudden fame, 179;
her many charms, 180, 181

Proctor, Richard A., great astronomer, 178

Pugh, T. B., 543

Raymond, Henry J., 345

Raymond, Robert R., 539

Raymond, W. W. V., 436

Redpath, James (Lyceum Bureau), xxi, xxv,
12, 39, 40, 188, 189, 194, 220, 226, 330, 331;
tribute to, 199, 533-538, 540

Reed, Thomas, 411

Reid, Whitelaw, 345

Richards, John Morgan, 127

Riley, James Whitcomb, author reader, 241;
autobiography, 244;
programme, 242, 519, 527, 529

Roosevelt, Theodore, 482, 522

Rosseau, Colonel, 536

Rossington, 49

Rudersdorff, Mme., 364

Ruggles, Adjutant-General, 214, 215

Ruskin, John, 368

Ryan, Archbishop, 430

Sanders, Senator of Montana, 211-213

Schley, Admiral, 285

Schurman, President Cornell University, 125;
speech at Dean Hole dinner, 126

Scott, Benjamin, presides in London, 66

Scott, Lady John, author of “Annie Laurie,” 171

Searle, Dr. W. S., says “He is dead,” 74

Seligman, A. J., 213

Seton-Thompson, Ernest,--Wild Animals--515, 516, 517, 518, 547

Shatter, General, 285

Shaftesbury, Lord, 98

Shearman, Thomas G., 81

Sherman, Father, John, 460

Sherman, Gen. W. T., 460, 535

Shillaber (“Mrs. Partington”), 539

Simon, Rev. Dr., Westminster Chapel, 116

Simpson, Benjamin, of Kansas, 49

Sizer, Frank L., 208, 213

Sloan, John, 408

Slocum, Capt. Joshua, 299, 300

Smith, Ballard, 384

Smith, F. Hopkinson, 222, 227, 508, 521

Smith, Joseph, Mormon prophet, xx

Smith, Rev. M’Kaye, 431

Smith, Roswell, 289, 490, 527

Sousa, J. Philip, 367

Spencer, Herbert, 118

Spurgeon, Rev. C. H., portrait, 112;
attempt to see the great preacher--his letter, 113;
hear him preach in tabernacle, 114;
letter refusing to see me, 115, 119, 544

Spurgeon’s tabernacle, 95

Stairs, Lieutenant, 272

Stanley, Dean of Westminster, 118

Stanley, Henry M., African explorer, how I first met him, 263;
first proposition to lecture in America, 264;
comes to America to lecture, 264;
guest of Mark Twain in Hartford, 265;
Mark introduces him in Boston, 265, 266;
recalled to Africa--stops lecturing, 267;
Karagua Club, 269;
returned to Africa--three years roll by, 261, 271, 273, 276, 278, 279;
letter, 281-285;
letters, 286-288;
interest in Arnold, 378

Stanley, Mrs., first meets Major Pond, 275, 279

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 141, 142

Steadman, General, 535

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 384, 387, 390

Steele, A. J., 213

Stoddard, John L., 302

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 384, 390

Stokes, Fred A., 485

Stone, Lucy, tribute, 161, 162

Storrs, Rev. Dr. R. S., 78, 391

Stratton, Rev. C. C., xx

Straus, Isidor, 471

Strauss, Johann, 364

Stubbs, Rev. Charles William, Dean of Ely, 130, 132;
speech at Lotos Club, 133, 134;
in Chicago, 139, 140, 159;
in Columbus, Ohio, 138;
letter to Pond, 140;
Hubbard on, 369;
course of lectures, 370

Sulzberger, Judge, 471

Sumner, Charles, 8, 9;
“Hon. Charles,” 14, 15, 147, 195, 539

Swinton, John, 345

Talmage, Miss, 98, 99

Talmage, Mrs. Dr., 93, 98, 102, 103

Talmage, Rev. T. De Witt, 88, 89;
lecture tour in England, 91-110;
telegraphs from Birmingham “stop everything,” 103;
strikes for second increase of salary, 105;
revulsion of public opinion;
its cause, 108;
means of disseminating sermons, 109;
_The Congregationalist_ on, 111, 550

Taylor, Bayard, 539

Tennant, Dorothy, 267, 273

Tennant, Mrs. Stanley’s mother, 275-279

Tennyson, quoted by Dean Hole, 126

Terry, Ellen, 309, 312, 313;
the greatest actress of the time, 319

Thackeray, 123, 124

Thomas, Chester, 49

Thomas, Gen. George H., 535

Thompson, Denman, 128

Thorn, Charles, 92

Thorn, Henry, 92, 94, 97

Thurber, H. T., 432

Tipoo Tib, 262

Toombs, Robert, 147

Tourjie, Dr., 364

Twain and Cable, 291

Twain, Nasby, and Josh Billings, 232, 233

Urso, Camilla, 546

Vanderhoff, George, 539

Van Wagneu, Bleeker, 411

Villiers, Frederick, war artist and lecturer, 291

Vincent, Bishop, 551

Wadhams, Lieutenant-Commander, 214

Walker, L. A., 208

Wallace, Gen. Lew, soldier, lawyer, orator, novelist, 465-467

Wallack, Lester, 309

Wanamaker, John, 430

Ward, Artemus, 125, 386

Ward, Herbert, 175

Warner, Charles Dudley, 508

Warsham, Mrs., 55

Washington, Booker T., president
Tuskegee Normal Industrial Institute, with portrait, 31-33

Watson, Mrs., 408, 409, 411

Watson, Rev. Dr. John (Ian Maclaren), 132;
account of first American tour, 405-445;
description of the man, 405;
“You are in Meriden,” 410;
in Montreal, 413;
in Chicago, 418, 419;
in Appleton, 420;
in Minneapolis, 421;
in Des Moines, 423;
in Galesburg, 425;
in Pittsburg, 428;
Niagara Falls, 429;
Washington--lunch with President Cleveland, 431, 432;
in Boston, 433;
Lotos Club speech, 436-440;
in Poughkeepsie, 444;
last week in America, 447;
sails for England, 449;
letter from Liverpool, 450, 551

Watterson, Henry, 345, 346

Webster, C. L. & Co., 197, 198

Webster, Daniel, 13

Weed, Thurlow, 39

Weeks, Barlow S., 506

Wellcome, Henry S., 269, 270, 272, 274

West, Colonel, of West Hotel, Minneapolis, 421

Wetherel, Eugene, 168

Whipple, Rev. E. P., 147

White, Deacon S. V., 86, 412

Whitman, Walt, 386, 388;
“Gone,” poem, Sam Walter Foss, 500;
described, 497-499;
gave readings, 497

Whitney, J. W., 422

Whittier, John G., 125, 377, 384

Wilder, Marshal P., 324

Williams, Barney, 309

Willis, 125

Winde, Frederick, 70

Winter Memorial Library, 306

Winter, William, 136, 138, 175, 176;
tribute to, 306, 307, 384, 390, 411, 440;
farewell to Iona, 142, 143;
letter, 308;
“Died,” Augustin Daly poem, 309

Wood, Rev. Charles, 108

Woods, Governor of Utah, xxi

Young, Ann Eliza, xx;
portrait, xxi, xxiv

Young, Brigham, xx;
normal college, xxiii, 176

Young, John Russell, 387, 388, 430, 481, 498

Zangwill, Israel, 175;
author, 469;
I visit him in London, 469;
arrives in America, 470;
first lecture, 471;
lecture tour, 472, 473

Zarrhan, Carl, 364

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