Allan Mclane Hamilton

Recollections of an Alienist: Personal and Professional (Classic Reprint) Allan Mclane Hamilton

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from Recollections of an Alienist: Personal and Professional I Come Into the World - My Grandfather Alexander Hamilton - The Beauties of Early Williamsburgh - My School Days - My Father - His Presence at My Graduation - The Yacht America - He Tried Gibbs, the Pirate - The "Underground Railroad" for Fugitive Slaves - My Mother's Father, Louis McLane, Ambassador to England - My Mother's Life in London - Washington Irving - Tom Moore and Campbell the Poet - Gilbert Stuart Newton the Artist, Lady Wellesley - My Mother Plays Tom Moore's Accompaniments - Entries in Moore's Diary - Samuel Rogers - Andrew Jackson Writes About the Loss of the "Hermitage" - Irving Goes to the Opera - He Writes a Poem to My Mother - Commodore Isaac Hull and the Constitution - My Mother's Marriage - My Brother Is Killed Under General Custer. I was born in the year 1848, "the year of trouble," when most of Europe was in turmoil, although the condition of general conflict was but trivial when compared with the awful upheaval of to-day. This country then offered a welcome asylum for many distinguished men who fled from central Europe, especially Prussia, in peril of their lives - among them the late Carl Schurz, and Doctors Ernest Krackowizer and Abraham Jacobi, the former of whom cared for me in my infantile illnesses, and afterwards became a great surgeon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.