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LETTER I.
The Battery in the Morning. Streets of Modern Babylon. Street
Musicians 1LETTER II.
Washingtonian Temperance Society. Law of Love, and the
Law of Force. Trusting each others' Honesty. The Dog-Killers
5LETTER III.
Sectarian Walls. Ideas of God. The Poor Woman's Garden.
Society makes the Crime it Punishes 11LETTER IV.
Hoboken. Weehawken. Hamilton's Duel. Indian Sarcasm.15LETTER V.
Highland Benevolent Society. Clans and Sects 21LETTER VI.
The Jews. Black Jews. Old Clothes. Reading by Lamplight
in the Day-time 25LETTER VII.
Rev. John Summerfield. The Farmer Crazed by Speculators.
Greenwood Cemetery. Wearing Mourning 35LETTER VIII.
The Shipping. Story of the Yankee Boy and his Acorn. The
Kamschatka and Belle Poule 40LETTER IX.
Ravenswood. Grant Thorburn. Lawrie Todd 49LETTER X.
Varieties of Character, and Changing Population of New-York.
Anecdote of Absent Men. The Bag-pipe Player. Beautiful
Burial of a Stranger in the Western Forest 56LETTER XI.
The Eloquent Coloured Preacher. Story of Zeek, the Shrewd
Slave 61LETTER XII.
The New Year. Past and Future. Music written by Vibration.
Caution to Reformers 70LETTER XIII.
Scenery within the Soul. Valley de Sham. Truth in Act as
well as Word 76LETTER XIV.
Little Newspaper Boy. The Foreign Boys and their Mother.
The Drunken Woman. Burying-ground for the Poor..82LETTER XV.
McDonald Clarke 88LETTER XVI.
A Great Fire. Jane Plato's Garden. Money is not Wealth.98LETTER XVII.
Doves in Broadway. The Dove and the Pirate. Prisoners and
Doves. Doddridge's Dream. Genius Inspired by Holiness.103LETTER XVIII.
Origin of Manhattan. Antiquities of New-York. David Reynolds.
The Fish and the Ring 109LETTER XIX.
Animal Magnetism. The Soul watching its own Body. Anecdote
of Second Sight 118LETTER XX.
The Birds. Anecdote of Petion's Daughter. The Bird, the
Snake, and the White Ash. The Spanish Parrot. My Swallows
125LETTER XXI.
Staten Island. Sailors' Snug Harbour 133LETTER XXII.
The Non-Resisting Colony 137LETTER XXIII.
The Florida Slave-Trader and Patriarch. Boswell's Remarks on
the Slave-Trade. The Fixed Point of View 141LETTER XXIV.
The Red Roof. The Little Child Picking a Clover Blossom.
Music and Fire-Works at Castle Garden 150LETTER XXV.
Rockland Lake. Major Andre. The Dutch Farmers..157LETTER XXVI.
Flowers. All Being is Spirally Interlinked 167LETTER XXVII.
Music and Light. Instrument Invented by Guzikow. Music
of the Planets. The Burning Bell-Tower of Hamburg. Mysterious
Music in Pascagoula Bay. The Mocking Bird and the
Bob-o'-Link. The Response of Musical Instruments to each
other 172LETTER XXVIII.
The Little Match-Seller. Beautiful Anecdote of a Street Musician.
Anecdote of a Spanish Donkey. Horses Tamed by
Kindness. The one Voice which brought Discord into Harmony
181LETTER XXIX.
Blackwell's Island. Long Island Farms. Anecdote from Sylvio
Pellico. A Model Almshouse among the Society of Friends187LETTER XXX.
Croton Water. The Fountains. Fear of Public Opinion. Social
Freedom. The Little Boy that run away from Providence.200LETTER XXXI.
Capital Punishment. Conversation with William Ladd. Circumstantial
Evidence 207LETTER XXXII.
Mercy to Criminals. Mrs. Fry's Answer. Love-tokens from
Friends. Made Good by being Beloved; a still higher joy to
love others 218LETTER XXXIII.
The Catholic Church. Puseyism. Worship of Irish Labourers.
Anecdotes of the Irish 225LETTER XXXIV.
Woman's Rights 232LETTER XXXV.
Lighting. Daguerreotype. Electricity. Effects of Climate.240LETTER XXXVI.
The Indians 247LETTER XXXVII.
Green Old Age. Swedenborg and Fourier 257LETTER XXXVIII.
The Snow Storm. The Cold-footed and Warm-heated Little
Ones 261LETTER XXXIX.
The Ministrations of Sorrow 267LETTER XL.
May-Day in New-York. The Storks of Nuremberg. All the
Nations are Brethren 271
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