Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
This chapter develops the memoir’s account of Chapter XIX. WITH NO REGRETS, WITH NO TORTURING REMORSE., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: Although I had the very respectable balance of $67,000 at the bank, I had not as yet, since my arrival in London, paid it a visit. This was in pursuance of our plans.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter XIX. WITH NO REGRETS, WITH NO TORTURING REMORSE..” It is most useful for readers interested in financial crime history, nineteenth-century banking culture, criminal justice, prison memoir, and the social setting of the period.
Read “Chapter XIX. WITH NO REGRETS, WITH NO TORTURING REMORSE.” as a historical memoir rather than guidance. The banking procedures, legal assumptions, public reputation, social judgments, travel conditions, and prison practices described belong to Bidwell’s nineteenth-century setting and may not match modern institutions.