Chapter 9: sunny memories, 1853.
- Crossing the Atlantic. -- arrival in England. -- reception in Liverpool. -- welcome to Scotland. -- a Glasgow tea-party. -- Edinburgh hospitality. -- Aberdeen. -- Dundee and Birmingham. -- Joseph Sturge. -- Elihu Burritt. -- London. -- the Lord Mayor's dinner. -- Charles Dickens and his wife.
The journey undertaken by Mrs. Stowe with her husband and brother through England and Scotland, and afterwards with her brother alone over much of the Continent, was one of unusual interest. No one was more surprised than Mrs. Stowe herself by the demonstrations of respect and affection that everywere greeted her.
Fortunately an unbroken record of this memorable journey, in Mrs. Stowe's own words, has been preserved, and we are thus able to receive her own impressions of what she saw, heard, and did, under circumstances that were at once pleasant, novel, and embarrassing. Beginning with her voyage, she writes as follows:--
