Letters from New York / By L. Maria Child.

  • Lydia Maria Child
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Letters from New York / By L. Maria Child. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. LETTER I. The Battery in the Morning. Streets of Modern Babylon. Street Musicians ...... PAGE 13 LETTER II. Washington Temperance Society. Law of Love, and the Law of Force. Trusting each other’s Honesty. The Dog-Killers . 17 , LETTER III. Sectarian Walls. Ideas of God. The Poor Woman’s Garden. Society makes the Crime it Punishes . . . 23 LETTER IY. Hoboken. Weehawken. Hamilton’s Duel. Indian Sarcasm . 27 LETTER V. Highland Benevolent Society. Clans and Sects. 33 LETTER YI. The Jews. Black Jews. Old Clothes. Reading by Lamplight in the Day-time ...... 37 LETTER VII. Rev, John Summerfield. The Farmer Crazed by Speculators. Greenwood Cemetery. Wearing Mourning. . . .47 LETTER VIII. The Shipping. Story of the Yankee Boy and his Acorn. Kamschatka and Belle Poule The 52
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