# Seedtime in Kashmir: A Memoir of William Jackson Elmslie

Author: Elmslie, William Jackson, 1832-1872; Elmslie, Margaret Duncan, 1852-1882 [Editor]; Thomson, W. Burns (William Burns), 1821-1893 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59457

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Seedtime+in+Kashmir%3A+A+Memoir+of+William+Jackson+Elmslie+Elmslie&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On the 29th June 1832, the subject of this memoir was born in Aberdeen to James and Barbara Elmslie. Their eldest child, a little girl, had been taken from them shortly before his birth, so the mother called William her "son of consolation," and most tenderly did she cherish this first-born son during the early years of his life. The family was in tolerably comfortable circumstances, as the father a boot-closer, was a clever tradesman, and had plenty of work. William's earliest memories were of a home in which his mother's presence was always pre-eminently felt as the source of comfort and love. Mrs. Elmslie was no ordinary woman. She was blessed with a vigorous intellect, a large measure...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/seedtime-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-william-jackson-elmslie-59457/chapters/17/index.md)