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New York.- Nichols (F., settler in America) Autograph Letter signed to William Fothergill, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, 4pp. & address panel, folio, New York, 28th April 1821, giving his opinion of New York, "You never saw such a dirty town as N. York. We live in an atmosphere of dust when the weather is dry. It exhibits a curious scene of wealth and poverty, of vice and misery. There are no poor laws, and the rich do not know how the indigent exist. The smaller houses swarm with people, and are mostly let by single rooms at exorbitant rates. They are occupied chiefly by labourers, prostitutes, and people of colour. I am confident that there is not a town in Britain where so much vice, privation, richness, and misery exist as in N. York", folds, browned.

Lot 17

New York.- Nichols (F.) Autograph Letter signed to William Fothergill, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, New York, 28th April 1821, giving his opinion of New York, "You never saw such a dirty town... ".

Hammer Price: £350

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New York.- Nichols (F., settler in America) Autograph Letter signed to William Fothergill, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, 4pp. & address panel, folio, New York, 28th April 1821, giving his opinion of New York, "You never saw such a dirty town as N. York. We live in an atmosphere of dust when the weather is dry. It exhibits a curious scene of wealth and poverty, of vice and misery. There are no poor laws, and the rich do not know how the indigent exist. The smaller houses swarm with people, and are mostly let by single rooms at exorbitant rates. They are occupied chiefly by labourers, prostitutes, and people of colour. I am confident that there is not a town in Britain where so much vice, privation, richness, and misery exist as in N. York", folds, browned.

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