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Title: New York in fiction
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- In literature Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts New York (State) New York American fiction -- New York (State) New York History and criticism New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e of the rawAmerican recruits. Later the actionshifts to the Roger Morris house, where 195 NUW YORK IN FICTION Washington had his headquarters andMr. Meredith and his daughter arebrought to answer to a charge of con-veying to the British vastly importantinformation as to the lack of powder inthe American army. The country at the northern end ofManhattan Island and beyond the Har-lem was in a measure the inspiration ofFenimore Coopers The Spy. Every cragand valley was the scene of one of theskirmishes between partisans of the rivalcauses in the Revolutionary period; everyroad knew the wanderings of HarveyBirch. The opening pages of the bookfind General Washington, under the nameof Harper, pursuing his way through oneof the numerous little valleys of West-chester, which became after the occupa-tion of New York by the British armycommon ground until the end of the war.The towns in the southern part of thecountry near the Harlem River were, forthe most part, under English dominion, 196 ^;
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NEW YORK IX FICTION while those of northern Westchesterwere in sympathy with the Revolution-ary cause. The Locusts, the home of

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