Palfrey's brothers each received lots of sixteen Negroes, and for bookkeeping purposes it was agreed that all lots were to be valued at $6,666.66.

Not all of Palfrey's slaves were aboard the Bashaw.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

That night at the restaurant, the head waiter ( John Le Mesurier ) cannot find Palfrey's booking at first ; he does finally locate it under a slightly different name, but still refuses to seat them, as they are late.

The slaves appeared to be in good health and at work under John Palfrey's overseer.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.

When Raymond Delauney ( Terry-Thomas ), a casual acquaintance of Palfrey's, arrives and sees April, he invites them to his table, where he proceeds to try to seduce April and cast Palfrey in a bad light at every opportunity.

Delauney had found out that Potter was Palfrey's guest at the tennis club and got the story out of him.

* Irene Handl as Mrs. Stringer, Palfrey's landlady

Palfrey's work on the effect of Internet usage on democratic practice was cited as influential to the dissidents in Iran responsible for the Green Revolution.

Palfrey's investiture as head of school was celebrated on September 26, 2012.

Wallace's autobiography contains many stories from his boyhood in Covington, including the account of the death of his mother in 1834.

Snicket is the subject of a fictional autobiography, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography ( which contains an introduction from a fictionalized version of Daniel Handler ).

Bain's autobiography, published in 1904, contains a full list of his works, and also the history of the last thirteen years of his life by Professor W. L. Davidson of the University of Aberdeen, who further contributed to Mind ( April 1904 ) a review of Bain's services to philosophy.

The second volume, Meetings with Remarkable Men, is written in an accessible manner, and purports to be an autobiography of his early years, but also contains many allegorical statements.

She was also sued in Federal Court by Gene Ringgold, who asserts that the actress's autobiography contains material from an article he wrote about her for a magazine Screen Facts in 1965.

Wagner's autobiography ' Mein Leben ', circulated amongst his friends ( and published openly in 1911 ), contains constant sniping at Meyerbeer and concludes with Wagner exulting over Meyerbeer's death.

* Ein Horazjubiläum ( 1892 ), contains a short autobiography

Her autobiography contains a photograph of her mother but has no photos of her father or son.

The Literary Remains of H. F. Clinton ( the first part of which contains an autobiography written in 1818 ) were edited by Clinton James Fynes Clinton in 1854.

Each volume is devoted to a single living philosopher of note, and contains, alongside an " intellectual autobiography " of its subject and a complete bibliography, a collection of critical and interpretive essays by several dozen contemporary philosophers on aspects of the subject's work, with responses by the subject.

He was educated at Marlborough College, where he joined the College's secret ' Society of Amici ', in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice ( whose unfinished autobiography The Strings are False contains numerous references to Blunt ), John Betjeman and Graham Shepard.

Kazan's autobiography also contains copious references to his relationship with Odets.

This capstone work contains Blanshard's 183-page autobiography, detailed responses by Blanshard to his critics, and a complete bibliography.

Administration per se seems to have held little interest for him ; at least his autobiography contains virtually no mention of his college presidency.

The first volume of the book ( pp. 137-223 ) contains her autobiography up to 1668.

In 2008, she released the autobiography, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, which culminates in a description of her Jenny Craig experience ( the book's title contains a wordplay on One Day at a Time ).

The autobiography contains his own analysis of his poems and comments on their inspiration.

Kurosawa has been quoted as saying that he thinks little of the film, calling it “ too technical ” while also remarking that it contains “ all that technique and not one real thought in it .” His attitude had changed by 1982, when he wrote in his autobiography that “ no shooting ever went as smoothly ,” and that “ the excellent pace of the shooting and the good feeling of the crew can be sensed in the finished film .”

Traubel's 1959 autobiography, St. Louis Woman, contains an account of the three years she spent in the role, and how in the end she felt it had adversely affected her stature in the music world to have her name associated with " such a musical aspirant ".

First published in 1991, Wild Swans contains the biographies of her grandmother and her mother, then finally her own autobiography.

He wrote an autobiography in 1999, that contains many pictures taken during his long career in show business.

The last volume of his works contains fragments of autobiography.

The book overall contains less detail concerning specific events than a typical autobiography, although it is not devoid of information about his life.

An updated autobiography was published in 2006, The two works are overlapping, but the latter contains more of personal reflexions and uses more of the illustration techniques that the author preaches, in addition to covering the 1990s.

An autobiography ( from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write ) is an account of the life of a person, written by its subject.

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

In his autobiography, Davis disputed this account, stating that Roach had requested that Davis play with him that night, and that the details of the incident, such as carrying his horn in a paper bag and interrupting Roach and Brown, were fictional and that his decision to quit heroin was unrelated to the incident.

According to his own account, recorded in his autobiography Mein Leben, Wagner conceived Parsifal on Good Friday morning, April 1857, in the Asyl ( German: " Asylum "), the small cottage on Otto Wesendonck's estate in the Zürich suburb of Enge, which Wesendonck-a wealthy silk merchant and generous patron of the arts-had placed at Wagner ’ s disposal, through the good offices of his wife Mathilde Wesendonck.

Leonard ’ s own volumes of autobiography in the 1960s ( he died in 1969 ) gave the fullest account, but he remained reticent about the sexual lives of the members, as had the excerpts from Virginia ’ s diary.

Her autobiography, The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly, includes a harrowing account of Eastwood's treatment of her during the events surrounding their separation.

Amin never wrote an autobiography nor did he authorise any official written account of his life, so there are discrepancies regarding when and where he was born.

However, this seems to be a confusion with his account in his autobiography of his older brother Fred's proposal in Dublin in 1913 to the " ravishingly beautiful ... dark hair " Geraldine Fitzgerald who wanted to go on the stage.

Cassidy's 1994 autobiography C ' mon Get Happy: Fear And Loathing On The Partridge Family Bus provides an account of most aspects of his fame, including contracts, money and his fanatical worldwide fan following.

Nielsen's own description of his childhood in his autobiography Min Fynske Barndom ( My Childhood in Funen ) written in his later life appears to be a rather over-romanticised account.

This figure of 148 is bolstered by D. M. Bare's account in his autobiography where he stated that 97 buildings were erected by the planing mill between 1910 and 1920.

In her autobiography, Rage to Survive, singer Etta James claimed that she viewed Cooke's body in the funeral home and that the injuries she observed were well beyond what could be explained by the official account of Franklin alone having fought with Cooke.

He attended University College School, the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow ( a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his account ) and later studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Nevertheless one minister, Noel Browne, gave a different account in his autobiography, Against the Tide.

His brother Harpo offers a different account in his 1961 autobiography, Harpo Speaks !, claiming ( p. 130 ) that there was a popular trained chimpanzee named Mr. Zippo, and that " Herbie " was tagged with the name " Zippo " because he liked to do chinups and acrobatics, as the chimp did in its act.

Smith has written an autobiography titled ' Delirious ', providing a detailed account of his life and time with the band.

In Bloch's autobiography, Once Around the Bloch, he gives an inside account of the campaign, and the innovations he and Gauer came up with ... for instance, the original " releasing-balloons-from-the-ceiling " shtick.

It features actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy, which is a fictional account of the narrator's attempt at writing an autobiography.

Among his publications during this period were The Way of Peace ( 1928 ), a collection of lectures on the League ; A Great Experiment ( 1941 ), a personalised account of his relationship to the League of Nations ; and All the Way ( 1949 ), a more complete autobiography.

Coppée published his first prose work in 1875 and went on to publish short stories, an autobiography of his youth, a series of short articles on miscellaneous subjects, and La Bonne Souffrance, a popular account of his reconversion to the Roman Catholic Church.

In her autobiography Out of the Box, she describes him as her first romantic interest and gives an unflattering, but honest, account of his shortcomings.

The accounts, whether all true or false against him, are a source of information to write Recuerdos as he is then able to object and rectify into what he creates as a ' true account ' of autobiography.

A full account of Hill's wide-ranging career can be found in his autobiography Over the Airwaves ( 2005 ), which includes much detail about Children's Hour.