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Fifty years' reminiscences of New-York; or, Flowers from the garden of Laurie Todd: being a collection of fugitive pieces which appeared in the newspapers and periodicals of the day, for the last thirty years; including tales of the Sugar-house [prison] in Liberty-street; the yellow-fever in New York, from 1798 to 1822; traditions and anecdotes of the War of the Revolution ... obtained from actors in the scenes

Grant Thorburn · 1845 · Scanned text

74,237 words · about 5 h 12 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Grant Thorburn
Language
English
Published
1845
Length
74,237 words · about 5 h 12 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (4)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Dedication about 1 min
  3. Contents about 1 min
  4. Preface about 5 h 9 min

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Front matter

Qass.

Book.

FIFTY YEARS' REMINISCENCES

Dedication

THE WIDOW

OF THE LATE

MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Contents

Page.

Preface, 9

Fifty years' Wanderings of an Enxigrant, No. 1. . . .13 Fifty years' Wanderings of an Emigrant, No. 2. . . . 27

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