CHAPTER I
Birth and Parentage --- His Aunts --- Pursuits and Early Education ---
Boyish Journal --- College --- College Letters ---The Family Circle --
- His Sister Emma's Letters --- College and Vacation Letters ---
Discussions in College --- College Friendships 1
CHAPTER II
Decision to enter the Ministry--- Teaching at Ellington and Winchendon
--- Letters on his Reading --- Earnest Resolves --- Visit in New
Milford --- Theological Year in New Haven --- Letters --- Period of
Speculation --- Theological Letters --- Miscellaneous Letters ---
Letter on Friendships 29
CHAPTER III
From New Haven to New York --- William Colt's Death --- Life in New
York --- Staten Island --- Speculation and Discussion carried on there
and in New York --- Wendell Phillips --- Letters --- Studies, and
Blackwell's Island --- Emma's Illness, and Visit to Cambridge ---
Emma's Death --- Charles's Agony of Grief 68
CHAPTER IV
Journey Abroad --- Walking Trip in Ireland --- Letter on the German
Sunday --- The Rhine and Edinburgh --- Letter on Socialism ---Decision
to remain in Germany --- German Experiences and Study --- Olmsted
Letters --- Miscellaneous Letters, and Opinions on the Fugitive Slave
Law --- Desire for a Deeper Life ---Tired of Travelling 89
CHAPTER V
Plan of going to Hungary --- Prague --- Vienna Letters --- Starts for
Hungary down the Danube --- Sentiment for Hungary ---Journey to Gross
Wardein --- Imprisonment --- Letters from Prison ---Release ---Olmsted
Letters ---Feeling of Austrian Injustice --- Trieste ---Liverpool ---
Return and Lectures ---Book on Hungary ---Book on Germany --- Episode
with "C." 122
CHAPTER VI
Decision to enter Philanthropic Work ---Efforts among Adults ---Boys'
Meetings ---Insufficiency of these Efforts ---Organization of
Children's Aid Society ---First Circular ---Immediate Response of
Children --- Workshops --- Letters in Children's Aid Society ---
Failure of First Effort ---Workshops --- Industrial Schools --- Need
of Outside Help in starting Schools ---Objection to Raffles, etc. ---
Organization of Fourth Ward Schools ---Homeless Boys --- Lodging House
--- What to do with the Homeless --- Emigration versus Asylums ---
Difficulties --- Immediate Success of Effort --- Miscellaneous Letters
163
CHAPTER VII
Opening of First Lodging --- House for Newsboys --- Sunday Evening
Meetings ---One Year's Experience with Lodging House --- Personal
Relations with the Poor --- Notes of Lectures on Children's Aid
Society --- Miscellaneous Letters ---Journey to Ireland, and Marriage
--- Aim of Society and Principles --- Success of Emigration ---Success
of Schools ---Volunteers ---Letters to his Wife ---Organization of
Italian School --- Miscellaneous Letters --- Trip to England and
Norway --- Reflections on Loneliness of the Poor ---Natural Results of
Neglect of Poor Children --- Kindness of Adopted Mothers in the West -
-- Opposition to Emigration --- Journey to the West ---Letters to his
Wife 186
CHAPTER VIII
Miscellaneous Letters ---Appeal for a Night School for Girls ---
Organization of the School --- Similar Associations in Other Cities --
- Desire for Workers among Young Men --- Letters and Papers written
during the Civil War ---Letters from Greeley and Seward --- Mr. Brace
goes South on the Christian Commission --- New President of Children's
Aid Society --- Organization of First Girls' Lodging-House 222
CHAPTER IX
Ethnological Book ---Progress of Children's Aid Society in Spite of
the War --- Death of Mrs. Schuyler --- Letter to a Trustee of
Children's Aid Society explaining Mr. Brace's Right to Private Views
as a Private Individual --- Plans for English Journey --- Lincoln's
Death --- Experience in England ---English Lack of Sympathy in the War
--- In the Tyrol --- Miscellaneous Letters --- Illness ---California
Trip Death of Miss Neill --- Death of Mr. Loring ---Progress of
Society's Work --- Newsboys' Lodging-House --- Letter Beecher ---
Darwinism --- Factory Children 256
CHAPTER X
Dangerous Classes of New York ---Visit to England Delegate to Congress
on Reform --- Darwin ---Visit to Hungary Twentieth Annual Report ---
Death of Mr. Brace's Father --- Death of John Stuart Mill --- "Soup-
kitchen" Episode --- Children's Summer Home of Children's Aid Society
308
CHAPTER XI
Mr. Brace's New House --- Life in the Woods --- Charges against
Children's Aid Society --- Miscellaneous Letters --- To a Young Ms. on
Faith ---On the Strikes --- Study and Work Miscellaneous Letters ---
Correspondence Coming Book --- Death of his Brother ---Trip Society
Details --- Death of Mr. Macy 342
CHAPTER XII
"Gesta Christi" ---Letters about "Gesta Christi" ---Controversy with
Miss Lazarus --- Letters on New Studies Visit of Mr. Mozoomdar --- Mr.
Brace's Devotional Readings at Home --- Sanitarium --- Letter from Mr.
Mozoomdar ---Political and Miscellaneous Letters ---Preparations for
New Book 384
CHAPTER XIII
English Sojourn ---Summary of the Children's Aid Society ---Letters --
Thirty-fifth Annual Report--- Death of Friends of the Society ---
Letters on his Coming Book ---Death of Dr. Gray --- Letter on
Inspiration of the Scriptures --- Letters ---Effort to Prevent the
Admission of Boys to Men's Lodging-Houses --- Marienbad ---Switzerland
426
CHAPTER XIV
Bryce's Book --- Death of Mr. Skinner ---Letter from Virginia ---
Adirondack Trip --- Last Report --- Letters --- Letters on "The
Unknown God --- Offers of his Son to come to New York as his Father's
Assistant --- Last Journey --- The Dolomites --- St. Moritz --- His
Increasing Weakness --- Death 454
APPENDICES 489
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