My Life
A Record of Events and Opinions
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
1. My relatives and ancestors
2. Usk: my earliest memories
3. Hertford: the home of my boyhood
4. Hertford: my school life
5. Hertford: my home life
6. London workers, secularists and Owenites
7. Bedfordshire: surveying
8. Bedfordshire: Turvey
9. Bedfordshire: Silsoe and Leighton Buzzard
10. Kington and Radnorshire
11. Brecknockshire
12. Shropshire and Jack Mytton
13. Glamorganshire: Neath
14. First literary efforts
15. Remarks on my character at twenty-one
16. London and Leicester
17. Residence at Neath
18. The journey to the Amazon
19. 'In memoriam'
20. In London, and voyage to Singapore
21. The Malay archipelago – Singapore, Malacca, Borneo
22. Celebres, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Timor, Java, and Sumatra
23. Life in London, 1862–1871 – scientific and literary work
24. Home life – my friends and acquaintances – Sir Charles Lyell. Volume 2:
25. My friends and acquaintances – Darwin
26. My friends and acquaintances – Spencer, Huxley, Mivart, etc.
27. My friends and acquaintances – Sir James Brooke, Professor Rolleston, Mr. Aug. Mongredien, Sir Richard Owen, Dr. Richard Spruce
28. My friends and acquaintances – Dr. Purland, Mr. Samuel Butler, Professor Haughton
29. Sketch of my life and work, 1871-1886
30. An American lecture tour – Boston to Washington
31. Lecturing tour in America – Washington to San Francisco
32. Lecturing tour in America – California to Quebec
33. Literary work, etc., 1887-1905
34. Land nationalization to socialism, and the friends they brought me
35. Mesmerism to Spiritualism – correspondence with scientific and literary men
36. Two biological inquirers: an episode in the history of Spiritualism
37. Spiritualistic experiences in England and America
38. The anti-vaccination crusade
39. A chapter on money matters – earnings and losses – speculations and law-suits
40. My character – new ideas – predictions fulfilled
Addendum
Index.