List of Illustrations PAGE[The Park Theatre, New York City, in 1807]Frontispiece[The West Family in London]Painted by Benjamin West41[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 print191[The Townsend Garden]217[Major John André]221[A Lady of Old Amboy]259[The Walk to Mrs. Bell's Mansion]273 An Unrecorded PhiladelphiaRomance the FranklinFamily helped into Flower