A Week in Wall Street / By One Who Knows

Transcriber’s Notes
The cover image was created from the title page by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
The eponymous street of the title appears in three guises: “wall-street” (once), “Wall Street” (twice) and most commonly “Wall-street”.
“Mr. Jacob Broker opened an office near the wall-street”, describing the street built on land where the old city wall was knocked down. His descendant brokers, the author writes, have “since congregated in the region round about Wall Street”, the name which is also used in the book’s title. In all other places in the text it appears as “Wall-street”.
ONE WHO KNOWS
NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS.
1841.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, BY FREDERICK JACKSON, In the Clerk’s office of District Court of the Southern District of New-York.
CHAPTER I.—Introduction—The origin of Joint Stock Companies, and Brokers.
CHAPTER II.—The History of the Morrison Kennel—Nicholas the 1st.—A Stock Speculation.