Letter to Mary Stevenson / Benjamin Franklin Letters from Auteuil / Abigail Adams Two letters / Thomas Jefferson from A diary of the French Revolution / Gouverneur Morris Shall Louis XVI. have respite? / Thomas Paine from The diary of James Gallatin / James Gallatin from Life, letters, and journals / George Ticknor Letter to Stephen Longfellow, Jr. / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from Journal, 1833 / Ralph Waldo Emerson from Pencillings by the way / Nathaniel Parker Willis from Gleanings in Europe / James Fenimore Cooper from Struggles and triumphs; or, Forty years' recollections / P.T. Barnum from Catlin's Notes of eight years' travels and residence in Europe / George Catlin from Things and thoughts in Europe / Margaret Fuller from Sunny memories of foreign lands / Harriet Beecher Stowe from The French notebooks / Nathaniel Hawthorne from The innocents abroad / Mark Twain The proclamation of the republic / Elihu Washburne Occasional Paris ; "The velvet glove" / Henry James Letter from Paris / Frederick Douglass Letter to John Hay / Henry Adams from The show-places of Paris / Richard Harding Davis

from My life / Isadora Duncan from A life in photography / Edward Steichen from Along the way / James Weldon Johnson A traveler at forty / Theodore Dreiser The look of Paris ; from A backward glance / Edith Wharton Mon amie / Randolph Bourne Paris notebook, 1921 / Sherwood Anderson from Peter Whiffle / Carl Van Vechten Significant gesture / Malcolm Cowley from Life among the surrealists / Matthew Josephson from The big sea / Langston Hughes from Gentlemen prefer blonds / Anita Loos Four letters from Paris, 1925 / William Faulkner from Post impressions ; Vive la Folie! / E.E. Cummings from The Spirit of St. Louis / Charles Lindbergh The flying fool / Waverly Root from A moveable feast / Ernest Hemingway Postcard to Samuel Loveman / Hart Crane Paris diaries / Harry Crosby You don't know Paree / Cole Porter Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald From an early diary / Lincoln Kirstein from The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ; from Paris France / Gertrude Stein Walking up and down in China / Henry Miller A spring month in Paris / John Dos Passos from The flower and the nettle / Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The last time I saw Paris / Oscar Hammerstein II

from Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach

Letter from Paris / Janet Flanner

Paris, 7 A.M. / Elizabeth Bishop

No. 13 Rue St. Augustin

Place Pigalle / Richard Wilbur

Three letters / Dawn Powell

from First days in Paris / Art Buchwald

Equal in Paris / James Baldwin

from Remembrance of things past / Irwin Shaw

The Saucier's apprentice / S.J. Perlman

Good-by to a world / May Sarton

from Departures / Paul Zweig

The first time I saw Paris / James Thurber

Trouble in Paris / Sidney Bechet

from Between meals : an appetite for Paris / A.J. Liebling

17 Quai Voltaire / Virgin Thomson

from Satori in Paris / Jack Kerouac

Gare de Lyon / M.F.K. Fisher

from D.V. / Diana Vreeland

from Birthday / Dorothea Tanning.