Memories

About this eBook

Author

Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica), 1837-1924

Original Publication

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1904.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Women -- Scotland -- Biography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77294

Release Date

November 22, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEMORIES
2. 2.“ APOLOGIA. ”
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTORY
6. 6.CHAPTER I “ Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life. ”—Psalm xxiii. 6.
7. 7.CHAPTER II The Altyre Gardens—Home Interests—Our Mother’s Death—Early Influences—The Moray Floods. — Note.
8. 8.CHAPTER III The Altyre Woods—Banks of the Findhorn—Culbyn Sandhills—Covesea Caves.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV Gordonstoun—A Glorious Playground—The Great Picture—The Dungeons—The Charter Room—Old Letters—Ecclesiastical Censures—Successive Lairds—Window-tax.
10. 10.CHAPTER V My Eldest Sister’s Marriage—Life at Cresswell—School-days in London—First Sea Voyages—Roualeyn’s Return from South Africa.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI My First London Season—My Father’s Accident—Beginning of the Crimean War—Death of Captain Cresswell—Death of my Father—We leave Altyre. — IN MEMORIAM. CANTO CIII.; CANTO CIV.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII Life in Northumberland—My Sister Eleanora’s Wedding—Alnwick Castle in 1855 and 1892—Serious Illness—Death of Oswin and Seymour Cresswell.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII At Home on Speyside—The Last Call to Arms of Clan Grant—A Double Funeral—Macdowal Grant of Arndilly—Aberlour Orphanage.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX The “Home-going” of Three Brothers. — THE CHIEFTAIN’S CORONACH.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. Marriages of my Sister Emilia and my Brother William—We leave Speyside and settle in Perthshire—My Visits to Skye and India.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI Return to England—Visit Cornwall en route to Ceylon for Two Happy Years.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII Start for Fiji—Life in Australia and New Zealand—Death of the Rev. F. and Mrs. Langham.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII Cruise on a French Man-of-War—Tongan Isles—Samoa—Taheiti—California—Japan.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV Japanese Burial-grounds—Cremation in Many Lands—Sacred Scripture Wheels—Buddhist Rosaries.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV Mythological Plays—Japanese Theatres—The Forty-seven Rônins—Flower Festivals.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI Wayside Shrines—The Fox God—Old Druggists’ Shops—Punishing Refractory Idols.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII Ascent of Fujiyama—Its Crater—View from the Summit—Triangular Shadow—Numerous Volcanic Eruptions.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII The People entertain the Mikado and General Ulysses Grant—Return to San Francisco.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX In the Hawaiian Isles—Spiritualism in Boston—Return to Britain—Invention of the System of Easy Reading for Blind and Sighted Chinese. — POSTSCRIPT — ANY SOUL TO ANY BODY. [74] — AT LAST.
25. 25.APPENDIX — Note A The Wolf of Badenoch — Note B The Lowlands of Moray — Note C A Legend of Vanished Waters — Note D Elgin Cathedral and the Church of St. Giles. — Note E — Note F Conditional Immortality — “ Thy Will be Done. ” — Note G Intercessory Prayer — “I PRAY FOR THEE. — Note H — Note I Use of the Rosary — Note J Hair Offerings — Note K On the Medicinal Use of Animals in China and Britain — Note L Magazine Articles
26. 26.INDEX

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