Autobiography with letters.

Early childhood -- Early education -- Boyhood experiences -- Interlude on cats -- Rufus H. Phelps -- Three blessings -- First diary -- Reflexions (i.e., reflections) on animals -- Early friendships, Mark Twain, and billiards -- Astronomy -- Moody and Sankey -- Chinese schoolmates -- My aunt -- Experiences at grammar school -- The Hartford Public High School -- Walking, working, frogs, love -- Going to the theatre [i.e. theater] -- Clyde Fitch -- Looking forward to college -- The robber -- College days at Yale -- The younger generation -- Interlude : hic et ubique -- William Graham Sumner -- Henry Drummond and Schopenhauer -- Browning -- Beginning teaching -- Graduate studies and sport -- Bicycling in Europe -- LIfe at Harvard -- Teaching at Yale -- My first book -- Professors -- George Santayana -- Thomas Sergeant Perry -- Playing games -- Journey to Europe -- Thomas Hardy -- Roosevelt and Riley -- Events in 1902 -- 1903 -- First sabbatical year -- The city of Munich -- Literary pilgrimage in Italy -- Events in the theatre -- William de Morgan -- Queer sounds and sights -- Various notes -- First journey to California -- W.D. Howells -- Mahaffy and Japan -- Journey to the South -- Second sabbatical -- Gerhart Hauptmann.

The Riviera -- The Fano Club -- Henry James -- J.M. Barrie -- Singing birds -- Dorothy Canfield -- Conversations with Paul Heyse -- France in 1913 -- Some events in 1914 -- William Howard Taft -- Some events in 1915-16 -- Journey to the Hawaiian Islands -- Vachel Lindsay -- America in the war -- Alfred Noyes and others -- Mea ornamenta -- John Gallsworthy -- Second journey to California -- Some poets and novelists -- A journey to Andover -- Events in 1920 and 1921 -- British dialect and American voices -- St. John Ervine -- "As I like it" -- A visible church in an invisible town -- Mrs. Wharton ; Conrad ; Benavente -- An American in England -- Edna Ferber -- The Conversation Club in Augusta -- Notes of travel and other notes -- Gene Tunney -- Journey to Europe in 1928 -- Anthony Hope -- George Moore -- Æ. -- Captain Liddell Hart & General J.G. Harbord -- Events in 1929-30 -- Edison -- Nathan Straus, Grand Duchess -- Henry Ford -- Journey to Athens -- The Pope -- Munich in 1932 -- An American in Paris -- Pirandello, Bernstein, Daudet -- Helen Wills Moody -- Literary and celestial events -- Emeritus -- Other events in 1933 -- Various notes in 1934-35 -- Emma Eames and music -- England in 1935 -- Radio -- City or country -- Informality -- Reflexions in the nineteen-thirties.