PILGRIMS SOCIETY-- Brittain - Pilgrims and Pioneers

Brittain, Sir Harry (1873-1974).
Pilgrims and Pioneers (undated, ca. 1946).
Autobiography; founding of The Pilgrims Society in 1902.

A "Briton" from Savage Sheffield bearing in hose his backstab miller's whittle.

CHAPTER X
The Pilgrims.
WE COME INTO BEING.

"IN 1902 came my first real opportunity to work for Anglo-American co-operation
when a little group of us, British and Americans, formed The Pilgrims' Club. ..."
(Page 103.)

=TABLE OF CONTENTS=

PREFACE.

I. FIRST MEMORIES AND SCHOOLDAYS.

II. FLEETING MEMORIES OF OXFORD.
THE BIRTH OF ZEEBRUGGE.
MY THIRD YEAR.
LAW TUTORS AT OXFORD.
LONG VACATIONS IN NORWAY.
THE OXFORD SOCIETY.

Ill. MY BRIEF CAREER AT THE BAR.
EARLY YEARS IN LONDON: 1897-98-99, ETC.

IV. MARRIAGE AND HONEYMOON.
COWLEY STREET AND FLEET STREET.
MARK TWAIN OUR GUEST.

V. OLD WORLD-NEW WORLD.
GREAT LONDON HOUSES.
DIPLOMATS AT HOME AND OVERSEAS.
WINTER VISITS ABROAD: SWITZERLAND.
DAYS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
THE OLD CONSTANTINOPLE.

VI. THE NEXT GENERATION.

VII. PIONEER DAYS OF MOTORING.
1895 ONWARD.
AN EARLY CONTINENTAL TOUR.

VIII. AVIATION MEMORIES.
FROM BALLOONING TO WORLD FLIGHTS.
THE FIRST BRITISH PASSENGER LINER OF THE AIR.
TRIAL TRIP IN R.100.
WITH WILBUR WRIGHT.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S VISION.
AVIATION AND AUSTRALIA.
UNIVERSITY AIR SQUADRONS.
ENGLAND WINS THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY.

IX. FLIGHT TO THE CAPE AND BACK.

X. THE PILGRIMS. [PAGE 103]
WE COME INTO BEING.
PILGRIMS OF AMERICA FORMED.
ANTICIPATING RADIO.
AN HISTORIC GATHERING.
WELCOME TO DOMINION PRIME MINISTERS.
IN LIGHTER VEIN.
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.
TO VERDUN FROM THE SOMME.
THE AMERICAN OFFICERS' CLUB.
VISIT OF THE KING AND QUEEN.
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.
TO AMERICA AGAIN.
A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
A MORE THAN KINDLY TRIBUTE FROM MY PUBLISHER.
LONDON - 1945.

XI. 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.
A MEMORY OF WOODROW WILSON.
AMERICAN COUSINS.

XII. NATIONAL WAR AIMS COMMITTEE.
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN VISIT TO BLACKPOOL.
THE EARL OF BIRKENHEAD.

XIII. 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.

XIV. CANADA, 1907.
AS THE GUESTS OF LORD STRATHCONA.
A FEW DAYS IN JAMAICA.

XV. CANADA AGAIN.
THE LAST 'GREAT WEST' - A TRIP TO NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH THE PREMIER.

XVI. ONE OR TWO MEMORIES.
LORD STRATHCONA, LORD HALDANE AND LONDON UNIVERSITY.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

XVII. 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.
THROUGH THE PROVINCES.
THE EMPIRE PRESS UNION FOUNDED.
A PRESENTATION FROM THE HOME PRESS.
PROGRESS OF THE EMPIRE PRESS UNION.
SIR THOMAS SHAUGHNESSY.
EARL GREY OF HOWICK.

XVIII. THE FIRST OVERSEAS CONFERENCE - CANADA, 1920.
McGILL UNIVERSITY.
THE CANADIAN WEEKLIES' DELEGATION - OUR GUESTS IN ENGLAND.

XIX. PREPARATIONS FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE, 1925.
THE ROYAL WARRANT HOLDERS' ASSOCIATION.
EN ROUTE.
NEW ZEALAND.

XX. AUSTRALIA, 1925.
MELBOURNE OUR MECCA.

XXI. INDIA: GUEST OF THE VICEROY.
BIKANER, AND A GREAT PRINCE.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, BOMBAY.

XXII. CHRISTMAS IN PERSIA.
VISIT TO THE OILFIELDS.
BAGHDAD.
NEW YEAR'S EVE AND THE DESERT MAIL.

XXIII. THE EMPIRE PRESS UNION'S NEW PRESIDENT.
THE FOURTH CONFERENCE - LONDON, 1930.
THE FIFTH CONFERENCE - SOUTH AFRICA, 1935.
THE SIXTH CONFERENCE - LONDON AGAIN.