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Title: Literary New York
Its Landmarks and Associations

Author: Charles Hemstreet

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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 _Fron