ContentsPAGEAn Unrecorded Philadelphia Romance the Franklin Family helped into Flower15The Love-story of the Noted Nathaniel Moore and "The Heavenly Ellen," a Belle of Chambers Street, New York City59A True Picture of the Last Days of Aaron Burr99The Poetic Courtship of Philip Freneau, the Poet of the Revolution, and Beautiful Eleanor Forman123The Chevalier de Silly and his Newport Sally159Susanna Rowson, of "Charlotte Temple" Fame, and her British Grenadier179The Ghosts of an Old Staten Island Manor197Major André's Last Love213Pinderina Scribblerus, an American Montagu253List of IllustrationsPAGEThe Park Theatre, New York City, in 1807FrontispieceThe West Family in LondonPainted by Benjamin West41How can I describe to You his Eyes, his Hair, his Voice61A Sidewalk filled with the Fashionables of Gotham starting for the Afternoon Battery Promenade65Nathaniel Fish Moore69An Old View of Staten Island, about 1830101On the Wide Galleries of this Haven of Rest Old Sea-Captains could always be seen gently dozing as they puffed Long Pipes in the Sunlight105Now, like some Sleepy Antique Dame belated after a Revelry, it waits despairingly by the Turn of the Road139Newport in 1831161Mrs. Wanton, a Belle of Newport167Charlotte Temple in her GardenFrom an old print191The Townsend Garden217Major John André221A Lady of Old Amboy259The Walk to Mrs. Bell's Mansion273