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 Lindberg --
The last time I saw Paris / Oscar Hammerstein II
from Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach
Letter from Paris / Janet Flanner
Paris, & A.M. / Elizabeth Bishop
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-bye 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.