Pilgrims and Pioneers

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Autobiography of Sir Harry Brittain K.B.E., C.M.G., D.L., LL.D. and notes on the founding of The Pilgrims Society and The Empire Press Union. Same item as http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4810864035E1B2246136F014C7B0198E but most photoplates updated, outline/bookmarks added. (Page 106 onwards regarding founding of The Pilgrims Society: Anglo-American relations). By the same author: Canada. To Verdun From The Somme. The A.B.C. Of The B.B.C.. Austria Invites. By Air. Wings Of Speed. Come The Three Corners. Pilgrim Partners. Pilgrims and Pioneers - Front Board Half-title By The Same Author [photoplate] Portrait of Sir Harry Brittain Title Page Dedication / Printer's Imprint Preface Table Of Contents List Of Illustrations Illustrations In The Text Illustrations In The Text 1. First Memories And Schooldays [photoplates] 2. Fleeting Memories Of Oxford The Birth Of Zeebrügge My Third Year Law Tutors At Oxford Long Vacations In Norway The Oxford Society 3. My Brief Career At The Bar Early Years In London: 1897-98-99, Etc 4. Marriage And Honeymoon Cowley Street And Fleet Street Mark Twain Our Guest [photoplates] 5. Old World--New World Great London Houses Diplomats At Home And Overseas Winter Visits Abroad: Switzerland Days In The Middle East The Old Constantinople 6. The Next Generation [photoplates] 7. Pioneer Days Of Motoring 1895 Onward An Early Continental Tour 8. Aviation Memories From Ballooning To World Flights The First British Passenger Liner Of The Air Trial Trip In R.100 With Wilbur Wright [photoplates] Lord Northcliffe's Vision Aviation And Australia University Air Squadrons England Wins The Schneider Trophy 9. Flight To The Cape And Back [photoplates] 10. The Pilgrims We Come Into Being [lineart] The Pilgrims' Crest: Hic Et Ubique Pilgrims Of America Formed [lineart] Pilgrims' gathering in honour of American Ambassador Choate Anticipating Radio An Historic Gathering Welcome To Dominion Prime Ministers In Lighter Vein [photoplates] [lineart] Pilgrims' Luncheon To Mark Twain Sailors And Statesmen A Delightful Surprise Tenth Birthday In New York Welcome To Walter Hines Page Sulgrave Manor Purchased A Gracious Presentation War 1914 And Snipers' Battalion Mission To America Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler [photoplate] Menu Card From General Dubois To Verdun From The Somme The American Officers' Club [photoplates] Visit Of The King And Queen [photoplate] Signed Programme of Music, Canadian Officers' Club Dinner A Children's Christmas Party American Correspondents' Association Formed The Duke Of Connaught: The Pilgrims' President The U.S. Labour Delegation And The War God-Speed To Admiral Sims St. George's School Links Up With St. George's, Newport, Rhode Island Handing Over The Reins [photoplates] To America Again A Meeting With President Coolidge The Second World War A More Than Kindly Tribute From My Publisher [photoplates] Signed Pages From Author's 'Pilgrim Partners' Book London--1945 11. Americana President Theodore Roosevelt The Hon. John Barratt Viscount Bryce A Story Of Bishop Potter A Story Of Another Bishop--And Other Anecdotes Law In The U.S.A. Miss Amelia Earhart Broadcasting In America [photoplates] A Memory Of Woodrow Wilson American Cousins 12. National War Aims Committee An Anglo-American Visit To Blackpool The Earl Of Birkenhead 13. July 4, 1915--A Hundred Years Of Peace First English Guest Of The American Army In Occupied Germany Third Centenary Of The Pilgrim Fathers: A Dutch Welcome 14. Canada, 1907 As The Guests Of Lord Strathcona [photoplates] A Few Days In Jamaica 15. Canada Again The Last 'Great West': A Trip To Northern British Columbia With The Premier 16. One Or Two Memories Lord Strathcona, Lord Haldane And London University Lord Northcliffe [photoplates] 17. The First Imperial Press Conference And The Founding Of The Empire Press Union The Conception Birth Of The Imperial Press Conference The Conference Meets Royal Garden Party And Naval And Military Reviews [photoplates] Through The Provinces [photoplates] The Empire Press Union Founded A Presentation From The Home Press Progress Of The Empire Press Union Sir Thomas Shaughnessy Earl Grey Of Howick 18. The First Overseas Conference: Canada, 1920 [photoplates] McGill University The Canadian Weeklies' Delegation: Our Guests In England 19. Preparations For The Australian Conference, 1925 The Royal Warrant Holders' Association En Route New Zealand 20. Australia, 1925 [photoplates] Melbourne Our Mecca 21. India: Guest Of The Viceroy Bikaner, And A Great Prince Government House, Bombay 22. Christmas In Persia Visit To The Oilfields Baghdad New Year's Eve And The Desert Mail 23. The Empire Press Union's New President The Fourth Conference: London, 1930 The Fifth Conference: South Africa, 1935 The Sixth Conference: London Again [photoplates] Index