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New York
by James Fenimore Cooper

{Text transcribed and annotated by Hugh MacDougall, Founder and
Secretary/Treasurer of the James Fenimore Cooper Society, who will
appreciate corrections and comments at [email protected]. All
material not from Cooper's text is enclosed in {curly} brackets.
{Introductory Note: In 1851, just before his death on the eve of his
62nd birthday, James Fenimore Cooper was working a history of New
York City, for which he planned the title of "The Towns of
Manhattan." Cooper never completed it, and most of the parts of the
manuscript that he did complete were destroyed in a fire at the printers
after his death. The Introduction to the work, however, survived, and
was published during the Civil War in "The Spirit of the Age" (New
York: April 5-15, 1864), a fund-raising publication of the American
Sanitary Commission (predecessor of the American Red Cross).
Substantial excerpts were reprinted, as "James Fenimore Cooper on
Secession and States Rights" in the "Continental Monthly: Devoted to
Literature and National Policy," Vol. 6, No. 1 (July 1864), pp. 79-83.
The "Spirit of the Age"text was much later reprinted in book form
under the title of "New York" (New York: William Farquhar Payson,
1930) in a limited edition of 750 copies, with an introduction by Dixon
Ryan Fox, and was later re-issued in facsimile form (Folcroft: PA.,
Folcroft Library Editions, 1973) in a limited edition of 100 copies --
from which this text is taken.

{A few other surviving fragments from "The Towns of Manhattan"
were compiled in James F. Beard, Jr., "The First of Greater New York:
Unknown Portions of Fenimore Cooper's Last Work" (New York
Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, pp. 109-45, April
1953).
{The text has been transcribed as written, except that because of the
limitations of the Gutenberg format, occasional words in italics have
been transcribed in ALL CAPITALS. Annotations (identified by {curly}
brackets, have been occasionally added--identifying allusions,
translating foreign terms, and correcting a few obvious typographical
errors.
{Introduction from "The Spirit of the Fair" (April 5, 1864):
{Unpublished MS. of James Fenimore Cooper.
{Our national novelist died in the autumn of 1850 [sic]; previous to his
fatal illness he was engaged upon a historical work, to be entitled "The
Men [sic] of Manhattan," only the Introduction to which had been sent
to the press: the printing office was destroyed by fire, and with it the
opening chapters of this work; fortunately a few pages had been set up,
and the impression sent to a literary gentleman, then editor of a popular
critical journal, and were thus saved from destruction: to him we are
indebted for the posthumous articles of Cooper, wherewith, by a
coincidence as remarkable as it is auspicious, we now enrich our
columns