Excerpt from Reminiscences of Foreign Travel: A Fragment of Autobiography

Crossing the Atlantic for the first time in April, 1847, I visited London with some peculiar advantages for seeing the English celebrities of that day. I was a member of Congress, and during the six or seven years I had been at Washington I had served for a part of the time on the Committee of Foreign Affairs. I had thus been brought into Official as well as personal association with members of the Diplomatic Corps in Washington, more than one of whom, without solicita tion, gave me letters of introduction. Mr. Webster, too, on learning that I was going abroad, sent me several valuable letters to friends in England and Mr. Everett, who had recently returned from there after a four-years residence as our Minister in London, sent me a number of introductions of the most desirable character. Meantime Mr. Bancroft, who was then our Minister in England, was a personal though not at that time a political friend, and he was full of the kindest attentions on my arrival.

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