Letter of Henry Knox to his wife Lucy, November 1775, from New York City

"New York is a place where I think in general the houses are better built than in Boston. They are generally of brick and three stories high with the largest kind of windows. Their churches are grand; their college, workhouse and hospitals most excellently situated and also exceedingly commodious, their principal streets much wider than ours. The people - why the people are magnificent; in their equipages which are numerous, in their house furniture which is fine, in their pride and conceit which are inimitable, in their profaneness which is intolerable, in the want of principle which is prevalent, in their Toryism which is insufferable, and for which they must repent in dust and ashes."

Type

Text, Letter