Diaries, 1821-1824.

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Diaries, 1821-1824.

Diary of a Scot touring the eastern United States (1821-1824). Beginning in New York City, he writes of the food and markets, City Hall, the prison, libraries, a funeral, theater, a museum, the Academy of Arts, religion, foreigners, drinking, a tea party, sledding, the New York ladies, men and their manners, African Americans, national party feelings, summer amusements, Richmond Hill garden, Vauxhall Garden, hucksters, Methodist quarterly meetings, bathing party, celebration of the Fourth of July, yellow fever, etc.

3 v. (ca. 1,800 p. total) ; 7 x 9 in.

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Yale College (1718-1887)

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The Linonian Literary Society was founded in 1753. All undergraduates were allowed to be members of the Linonian Society. The club provided students with a forum to debate, stage plays, and deliver poems, essays, and orations. The society disbanded in 1868. From the guide to the Linonian Society, Yale College, records, 1753-1870, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

New York City Hall (New York, N.Y.)

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New York Academy of Arts.

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