Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet.

Thomas Addis Emmet

Date:: 1911

Credit: Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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$Mexican War, anecdotes of, 111-112 Middleton, Arthur, 124 Mississippi River, the, voyage up, 159 ff- Mitchel, John, Irish patriot, 138 Mitchell, Dr. J. K., 109 Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, 115-116 Money, as much a commodity as cotton or wheat, etc., 399; should be fully employed in development of the resources of the country, 399; “cheap money” never an indication of real prosperity, 399; evil of giving paper money the value of specie, 400 Money and Banks, by George Tucker, 45 Monroe, James, 42 Mont Alto, N. Y., 91 Monterey, battle of, remarkable military manoeuvre at, 111-112 Montgomery, General Richard, 64 Mooney, Monsignor, 378 Moore, Clement C., author of A Visit from St. Nicholas, 98, 99 Morea, Va., home of the Emmet family, 18, 20 Morris, Louis, one of the signers of the Declar- ation of Independence, 150 Morris, Louis, Jr., 150 Morris, Sabina, 150 Mortis multicaulis craze, disastrous results of the, 15 Mosquitoes near Tower Hill, R. I., 173; death of negro caused by, 173 Mount Rigi railroad, 241-242 “Myers Collection,” the, presented to New York Public Library by Mrs. Julian James and family, 220 Myers, Theodore Bailey, 219, 235, 323 N Narragansett Pier, R. I., 171 Negro music, early in the nineteenth century, peculiar fascination of, 23 Negroes, peculiar idea of honesty of, 26-28; outbreak of, under Nat Turner, 39; first public school in America was for, in South Carolina, 40 Neilson, Samuel, Irish patriot, 77 New Haven Railroad, terrible accident on, in 1853, 157 Newport, R. I., 171 New York City, early recollections of, 60 ff., 93: condition of streets in 1843, 94; street cries in, 95: volunteer Fire Department, 95; great fire in, in 1843, 101-102; outbreak of cholera in, in 1854, 162-163: “Draft riots” in, 184 New York Freeman's Journal, the, letter of Dr. Emmet to, concerning Irish affairs, 423-424 New York Herald, frustrates plan of London Times to discredit the Irish National members of Parliament in connection with Phoenix Park murders, 299ff.\ letter from Dr. Emmet to, 303; full text of letter of Emmet to, concerning the National party in Ireland, 432-434 New York Institute for the Blind, Dr. Emmet a manager of, 202 New York Public Library, the, “Emmet Collection” of Americana in, 220, 308; “Myers Collection ” presented to, by Mrs. Julian James and family, 220 New York Sun, letter of Dr. Emmet to, reply- ing to Lord Salisbury’s attack on Irish- Americans, 424-428 Niblo’s Garden, 71 Nott, Dr. Josiah, 198, 200 Nursery and Child’s Hospital, New York, the, 164, 165 Nye, Captain, of brig Catherine, 85; remark- able escape of, 85 O O’Brien, William, 276; released from prison and takes Dr. Emmet’s advice, 284 Obstetrical Society of London, why Dr. Emmet was not made a memberof, 231-232 O’Connell’s uncalled-for abuse of leaders in Irish “Rebellion” of 1798, 128 O’Connor, T. P., visits Dr. Emmet, March, 1907, 409; publishes accoimt of visit in the Irish Packet, 409-411; second visit of Christmas eve, 1909, 411 O’Conor, Charles, 255; anecdote of, concern- ing procession of Orangemen in New York, July 12, 1824, 256 ff. O’Donnell, Mrs. [“Aunt”], of Baltimore, 58, 59 O’Donnell, General, 59 O’Gorman, Richard, Irish patriot, 138, 264 O’Leary, Rev. Father Arthur, quoted, vii Old New York, by Dr. J. W. Francis, 125 Orangemen, parade of, in New York, July 12, 1824, 256ff.; in Ireland, responsible for religious disturbances, 427 O’Reilly, John Boyle, 273 Ormsby, Sir Lambert H., 349 Osier, Dr. William, dinner to, by members of the medical profession, 357 Ouze, Mrs., 198-199: burned to death in Windsor Hotel fire, 1899, 199 P Panama Railroad, building of, attended with a frightful mortality, 145 Paper money, evil from giving legal value of specie to, 401 Parker, Mrs. [“Aunt”), of Baltimore, 58, 59 Parnell, Charles Stewart, 267; displaced as leader of Irish party by Justin McCarthy, 278; Dr. Emmet’s impressions of, 278- 281; letter of Dr. Emmet to Chauncey Depew concerning, 286-288; injury to the cause of Ireland by, 421-424 Parsons, Mr., interest of, in erecting a statue to Nathan Hale, 90 Parsons, John E., 321, 336 Parsons, General Samuel H., 90; services of, during the Revolution, 90 Paterson, Dr. Robert M., iii Paulus Hook, block-house in Revolutionary War, 217 Peabody, Mrs. Judge, 196 Peel, Sir Robert, 140 Penn, William, 60 Pennsylvania, U. S. S., 97 Petrie, Mr., who took death-mask of Robert Emmet, 269$