List of Illustrations

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[The Park Theatre, New York City, in 1807]Frontispiece
[The West Family in London]
Painted by Benjamin West
41
[How can I describe to You his Eyes, his Hair, his Voice]61
[A Sidewalk filled with the Fashionables of Gotham starting for the Afternoon Battery Promenade]65
[Nathaniel Fish Moore]69
[An Old View of Staten Island, about 1830]101
[On the Wide Galleries of this Haven of Rest Old Sea-Captains could always be seen gently dozing as they puffed Long Pipes in the Sunlight]105
[Now, like some Sleepy Antique Dame belated after a Revelry, it waits despairingly by the Turn of the Road]139
[Newport in 1831]161
[Mrs. Wanton, a Belle of Newport]167
[Charlotte Temple in her Garden]
From an old print
191
[The Townsend Garden]217
[Major John André]221
[A Lady of Old Amboy]259
[The Walk to Mrs. Bell's Mansion]273

An Unrecorded Philadelphia
Romance the Franklin
Family helped into Flower