Stokes' Iconography of Manhattan Island, p. 1623, col. 1, quotes an
interesting passage describing a visit to New York City in May, 1822,
from the diary of a teenager from Philadelphia named Ellwood Walter.
At the time that Stokes was published, the manuscript of the diary was
in the hands of a descendant.  Does anyone know where it is now?  Young
Walter was no doubt the son of Ellwood Walter, a Philadelphia
bookseller.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.