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Writers of Knickerbocker New York

Chapter 2: LIST OF WOODCUTS
By Hamilton Wright Mabie
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This study surveys the writers and literary culture of early nineteenth-century New York associated with the Knickerbocker circle, offering biographical sketches, anecdotes, and critical notes on authors and their works. It situates these figures within the city's changing physical and social landscape, describing neighborhoods, publishing venues, and salons that shaped literary life, and traces how local humor, satire, and civic transformation influenced creative output. Illustrations and archival details accompany reminiscences of gatherings, rivalries, and public events that together illuminate a formative chapter in American letters.

LIST OF WOODCUTS

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Tail-Piece viii
“From Bowling Green to Trinity Church.”
  1  Head-Band 3
“New York has grown by the process of destruction, and has become metropolitan through successive stages of self-effacement.”
  2  Tail-Piece 28
“And there was a bridge on the Boston Post Road ... which bore the suggestive name of the Kissing-bridge.”
  3  Head-Band 29
“The old Government House.”
  4  Tail-Piece 51
“The old-fashioned gentleman who was last seen on the Albany Post Road.”
  5  Head-Band 52
“Celebrated in the ‘Salmagundi’ papers as Cockloft Hall.”
  6  Tail-Piece 67
“Sitting ... overlooking the river ... the old man delighted to recall the golden Knickerbocker age.”
  7  Head-Band 68
“Whose distinction was invariably expressed in a green or common, a Congregational spire, an academy, and rows of graceful elms.”
  8  Tail-Piece 88
“Let it be taken from the top of Weehawk Hill, overlooking New York.”
  9  Head-Band 89
“In the back room of Wiley’s shop ... Dana met Cooper, Halleck, Brevoort.”
10  Tail-Piece 121
“Lines to a water-fowl.”