INDEX 
Adams, Charles Francis, 89, 90, 94, 
101, 105,106, 138, 229, 290. 
Adams, Reverend William, 248. 
Airy, Sir G. B., 39. 
Alabama Claims in Civil War, 185, 
186, 189, 201, 212, 254, 260, 264. 
Alaska, 115, 116. 
Allen, Elisha H., 222, 223. 
American Telephone & Telegraph 
Company, 234. 
Among the Pines, book about Civil 
War conditions, 99. 
Anderson, Sir James, 133, 153, 158, 
162, 166, 171, 172, 190, 195, 247, 
254, 274. 
André, Major John, British spy, 248, 
249, 250, 252. 
Anglo-American Telegraph Com- 
pany, 133, 137, 175, 176, 178, 199, 
212, 276. 
Appold, J. G., 55. 
Arago, Dominique Francois, 227. 
Archibald, Edward M., 33, 86, 113, 
127, 254. 
Ardsley, England, 4, 199. 
Ardsley-on-Hudson, 199, 200, 201, 
248, 257, 261, 270, 273, 276. 
Argyll, Duke of, 190, 191, 193, 194, 
195, 202, 208, 264, 274. 
Arnold, Benedict, 248. 
Arthur, Chester A., 227. 
Astor, John Jacob, 232. 
Azores, The, 45, 178. 
Atlantic Telegraph Company, 40, 
51, 54, 63, 66, 67, 70, 79, 82, 89, go, 
93> 95, 100, 104, 113, 119, 120, 133, 
154, 160, 199, 212. 
Bancroft, George, 24, 265. 
Beecher, Reverend Henry Ward, 65, 
66, 200, 227. 
Bell, Alexander Graham, 234. 
Belmont, August, 232. 
Bennett, James Gordon, 18, 178, 258. 
Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 3, 
5» 250. 
Bible, The, 10, 18, 62. 
Bidder, George P., 119. 
Bismarck, Prince Otto von, 140, 141. 
Black Sea, 35. 
Blackwood’s Magazine, 131. 
Blaine, James G., 227, 254, 255, 262. 
Brassey, Thomas, 113, 133. 
Brett, John W., 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 
48, 160, 161. 
Bright, Sir Charles T., 36, 38, 39, 47, 
48, 53, 55, 60, 78, 80, 81, 82, 91, 
118, 119, 123, -137;, 1553, 159; 160; 
161, 254. 
Bright, John, 101, 102, 106, 107, 138, 
139, 140, 163, 164, 173, 185, 191, 
192, 195, 196, 201, 202, 203, 204, 
210, 211, 254, 264, 273. 
British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, 119. 
Brooks, Reverend Arthur, 275. 
Brown, Sir William, 59. 
Bryant, William Cullen, 15, 63, 87, 
226, 227, 230. 
Buchanan, President James, 62, 67, 
68, 69, 73, 75> 195- 
Buckingham Palace Hotel, 138, 185, 
186. 
Byron, Lady, 35, 40. 
Canning, Sir Samuel, 37, 53, 130, 132, 
197, 151, 152, 158, 159, 171, 172, 
274. 
Caithness, Lord, 138. 
Canadian Pacific Railway, 261. 
Carlisle, Lord, 49, 50, 51. 
Cesnola, General Luigi Palma di, 229, 
230. 
Cesnola Antiques, 229, 230. 
Chicago Fire of 1871, 213. 
Chamber of Commerce of New York, 
125, 165. 
Channing, William Ellery, 5. 
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