Chapter XXI: 1842

Pages 335-357.

PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON, AND THE SOUTH. AET. 30.

At Philadelphia 335
Rule in printing letters 335
Promise as to railroads 336
Experience of them 337
Railway-cars 337
Charcoal stoves 337
Ladies' cars 338
Spittoons 338
Massachusetts and New York 339
Police-cells and prisons 339
House of detention and inmates 340
Women and boy prisoners 341
Capital punishment 342
A house of correction 342
Four hundred single cells 343
Comparison with English prisons 344
Inns and landlords 344
At Washington 344
Hotel extortion 345
Philadelphia penitentiary 345
The solitary system 345
Solitary prisoners 346
Talk with inspectors 346
Bookseller Carey 347
Changes of temperature 347
Henry Clay 348
Proposed journeyings 348
Letters from England 349
Congress and Senate 349
Leading American statesmen 349
The people of America 350
Englishmen "located" there 350
"Surgit amari aliquid" 351
The copyright petition 351
At Richmond 351
Irving appointed to Spain 352
Experience of a slave city 353
Incidents of slave-life 353
Discussion with a slaveholder 353
Feeling of South to England 354
Levees at Richmond 354
One more banquet accepted 355
My gift of _Shakspeare_ 355
Home letters and fancies 356
Self-reproach of a noble nature 356
Washington Irving's leave-taking 357