Letters to Phil: Memories of a New York Boyhood, 1848-1856 |
Contents
Explanatory Note December 8 1886 | 4 |
Letter No 1 Undated December 8 1886 | 15 |
Letter No 3 December 26 1886 | 23 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
23rd Street 3rd Avenue 42nd Street 59th Street 5th Avenue 80th St Allan Nevins Astor Place Riot balls became bells Bloomingdale Church Bloomingdale Road Bowery Boy Brendan Gill Broadway Brooklyn building built Central Park century changes Chelsea city's Colored Orphan Asylum corner Croton Cottage Crystal Palace DIARY district Draft Riots Dutch East River engine farm Ferry to Hoboken Fifth Avenue Fourth Avenue Francis's Strangers Garden Gene Schermerhorn Gene's letters George George Stevens Harlem R.R. Harlem River immigrants Jones land Latting Observatory Letters to Phil lived Manhattan Manhattanville Mansion marble Mechanics Society School merhorn Mock auction rooms moved neighborhood nineteenth-century New York Philip Hone remember rutted road Seventh Regiment Ship SHOT TOWER Sixth skating sleigh riding sometimes Steam Boats Stranger's Guide Sunfish Pond tell town trees Twenty-third Street Uncle Gene village VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT Williamsburgh wonder Woods Yards York's Yorkville