Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations

Name: Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations
Author: Hemstreet, Charles

Hemstreet, Charles

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LITERARY NEW YORK

Its Landmarks and Associations

by

CHARLES HEMSTREET

With 65 Illustrations

[Illustration]

G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1903

Copyright, 1903
by
Charles Hemstreet

Published, November, 1903

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

[Illustration: The "Half-Moon" on the Hudson--1609.

From the painting by L.W. SEAVEY.]

Contents

CHAPTER                                                  PAGE

      I. WRITERS OF NEW AMSTERDAM                           1

     II. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION                             25

    III. THE POET OF THE REVOLUTION                        45

     IV. IN THE DAYS OF THOMAS PAINE                       67

      V. THE CITY THAT IRVING KNEW                         87

     VI. WITH PAULDING, DRAKE, AND HALLECK                106

    VII. COOPER AND HIS FRIENDS                           125

   VIII. THOSE WHO GATHERED ABOUT POE                     145

     IX. AT THE CLOSE OF THE KNICKERBOCKER DAYS           167

      X. HALF A CENTURY AGO                               189

     XI. TWO FAMOUS MEETING-PLACES                        209

    XII. SOME OF THE WRITERS OF TO-DAY                    230

Full-Page Illustrations

                                                         PAGE

THE "HALF MOON" ON THE HUDSON, 1609            _Frontispiece_
    From the painting by L.W. Seavey.

THE STADT HUYS                                              8

BROAD STREET, 1642                                         30

KING'S COLLEGE, ABOUT 1773                                 42

THE DEBTORS' PRISON                                        48

WILLIAM SMITH    }
PETER STUYVESANT }
PHILIP FRENEAU   }                                         60
THOMAS PAINE     }
JOEL BARLOW      }

THE FIRST TAMMANY WIGWAM, CORNER NASSAU AND
  SPRUCE STREETS                                           70

MAP OF STREETS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN 1827             76

JAMES KIRKE PAULDING }
PHILIP HONE          }
WASHINGTON IRVING    }                                    100
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE  }
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK  }
J. FENIMORE COOPER   }

THE PARK THEATRE, PARK ROW, 1831                          136

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD }
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON     }
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT  }                                  150
BAYARD TAYLOR          }
EDGAR ALLAN POE        }
ROBERT FULTON          }

POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM                                  158
    From a drawing by C.W. Mielatz, by permission.
    Copyright, 1899, by The Society of Iconophiles.

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