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Young Americans Abroad

by John Overton Choules

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Letter L

Calais; its Recollections. — Rough Passage of the Channel. — Dover. — Mr. Peabody’s Entertainment on the Fourth of July described. — Company. — A patriotic Act.

Letter LI

Entertainment at the Belgian Minister’s. — Young Nobility. — A noble Boy. — Craven Chapel. — Slavery. — Exhibition. — Pauper Labor. — Need of a Tariff.

Letter LII

Kind Friends at Bristol, — Weston Super Mare. — Museum of Baptist College. — Highbury Chapel. — Old Houses of Bristol. — Fine Churches.

Letter LIII

River Avon. — Wye. — Chepstow. — St. Aryan’s. — Wynd Cliff. — Glorious Scenery. — Tintern Abbey; its History. — Ragland Castle; Appearance. — Marquis of Worcester. — Chopstow Castle. — Henry Marten. — Defence of the Parliamentary Party. — Severn River. — Old Passage. — Henbury. — Blaize Castle. — Birthday Lines.

Letter LIV

Leave Bristol. — Berkeley. — Cheltenham. — Birmingham; Manufactories. — Rev. John Angell James. — Mr. Vanwart. — Liverpool. — Chester; its Antiquity. — Cathedral. — Rows and Pillars. — Englishmen and Americans have much in Common. — Royal Agricultural Exhibition at Windsor.

Letter LV

Passage Home in the Steamer Atlantic. — Claims of the Collins Line. — Lessons taught by Travel in other Lands. — Our Comforts. — Excellent Character of many of the English Nobility. — Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. — Prospect of Affairs in Europe. — Popery as seen in her proper Territories.

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