High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut

I've tried to write tu you agin and agin since my t'other letter, but I felt so dreadful bad, there was no makin it out, all I could du. I've been dreadful sick, and about the d...

I have just received your letter, and so I sot right down to answer it; for what you writ about my treating Captin Doolittle, and using sich bad language, made me feel bad enoug...

New-Year's Calls--A real Yankee's New-Year's Treat of Dough-nuts and Cider--Jonathan's ideas of the real difference between a real lady's House and Furniture and the House of a...

In which Jonathan shows up the Hardships of Sewing Girls--Describes a Tammany Hall Ball--Milliner Aristocracy and Exclusiveness--Informs the reader how Miss Josephine Burgess to...

Jonathan arrives in New York--Travels on the Deacon's Mare--Has Trouble with the Colt--Embarks from Peck Slip, on Capt. Doolittle's Sloop, to meet the President--His Introductio...

Jonathan gives a Description of the Theatre, Private Boxes, Drop Scene, &c.--His Ideas of _Miss_ Elssler's Dancing, and Dancing Girls in general--Jonathan mistakes Williams in h...

Visit to the Park Theatre--First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as written on the air, in the aerial feats of Mademoiselle Celeste--First shock at the exhibition of a Ball...

A New York Parvenu--Jonathan's Account of his Cousin Jason Slick, and how Jason was too lazy to work, and got rich on soft sodder--The dinner of a Connecticut Coaster--A New Yor...

Description of Cousin Jason's Equipage--Figure cut by Mrs. Jason Slick and her Daughter--Manners of a Noble Lord--The Dinner--Jason boasts of his Birth, Heraldry, and Coat of Ar...

It raly makes me feel bad to have you keep a writin so much advice to me. I du want to please you; and I don't think there ever is a time in the world when a chap can know enoug...

I arrived here safe and sound, arter a long and tedious voyage down the river and along shore to this place. The Captain left me to navigate the sloop purty much alone. The lazy...

Jonathan Slick and the Grand Fancy Ball--Jonathan in the character of an Injun, and Cousin Beebe in the character of Jonathan--Cousin Mary as Jonathan's Squaw--Jonathan among Ki...

"Look a here, cousin, this is ruther too bad," sez Jase, eenamost crying; "you ought to make apology to his lordship for speaking so afore him--what'll he think of American mann...

I am eenamost sartin that you was disappinted because I didn't come hum to thanksgiving, but somehow I couldn't raise pluck enough to start, all I could du. I raly don't know wh...

Jonathan Visits the Handsome Girl--Describes a Gambling-House in the Morning before it is put to rights--Visits the Lady's Boudoir--Describes the Furniture, the Lady, her Dress,...

Arly the next morning, I got up and put on my new clothes agin, and sot afore the fire, thinking of eenamost every thing on arth, till the clock struck nine; then I slicked down...

A live Yankee and the Parisian Danseuse--Fanny sends her Card and Jonathan makes a call--Down East Yankee and French-English rather hard to be understood--Jonathan quite killed...

I s'pose your letter came down from York like a streak of chalk, but I've got kinder out of the literary world since I cum back hum here, and I didn't hear a word about it till...

Jonathan's Arrival in New York from the onion beds at Weathersfield--Jonathan puts up at the Astor House--His notion of that great heap of stones--Jonathan's Ideas of a New York...

Wal, arter writing that story about the Bowery Milliner, I begun to think York was a going to be rather too hot to hold me. All the boss milliners in York got into a tantrum and...

Wal, a few nights ago, I thought I'd try one of them political meetings the Editor's wanted me to attend and see how they carried on there. So Captain Doolittle and I went to on...

Since I wrote my last letter there's been no eend to the things that I've had to du. Arter thinking about it eenamost two nights, I about made up my mind tu settle down here in...

Wal, you see I'm as good as my word. I hadn't hardly read t'other letter through, afore I sot right down and begun this right off the reel. By the living jingo! how it makes the...

Arter I'd made a visit to Miss Elssler, I went up to my room, as I was a telling you, and begun to think over what we'd been a talking about, and it made me feel sort of streake...

Jonathan attends the President at the Howard House--Visits the Park Theatre with the President and his Handsome Girl--Goes with Mr. Robert Tyler to have his Hair Cut at Clairhug...

She hadn't time to speak before two great doors slid into the partition, and there was another room jest as much like the one we was in, as two peas in a pod. A table was sot in...

Jonathan gets out of love with Fanny Elssler--Doctors the Ague in her Face and Leaves her--Receives an Invitation from his Pussey Cousin to a Thanksgiving Dinner, with a three c...

I du think this ere trade of writing is about the darndest bisness that a feller ever took to. The minit a man begins tu git his name up here in York, the way the gals du haul h...

The minit I got to the sloop I took off my coat, for I didn't seem to hum enough in the Astor House to write there. I sot down in the cabin, and stretching out my legs on a butt...

Jonathan goes to see Mr. Macready--Description of the Theatre--Introduces himself to a Handsome Girl at the Theatre--Enters into a Flirtation--Promises to Visit her--Jonathan ta...

I couldn't seem to rest easy till I went to see Susan. She boarded in a sort of a gloomy house eenamost up to Dry-dock. I knocked away at the door with my knuckles ever so long...

Jonathan gives a Description of the Theatre, Private Boxes, Drop Scene, &c.--His Ideas of _Miss_ Elssler's Dancing, and Dancing Girls in general--Jonathan mistakes Williams in h...

In which Jonathan shows up the Hardships of Sewing Girls--Describes a Tammany Hall Ball--Milliner Aristocracy and Exclusiveness--Informs the reader how Miss Josephine Burgess to...

A New York Parvenu--Jonathan's Account of his Cousin Jason Slick, and how Jason was too lazy to work, and got rich on soft sodder--The dinner of a Connecticut Coaster--A New Yor...

Jonathan goes to see Mr. Macready--Description of the Theatre--Introduces himself to a Handsome Girl at the Theatre--Enters into a Flirtation--Promises to Visit her--Jonathan ta...

Jonathan Visits the Handsome Girl--Describes a Gambling-House in the Morning before it is put to rights--Visits the Lady's Boudoir--Describes the Furniture, the Lady, her Dress,...

Jonathan Slick and the Grand Fancy Ball--Jonathan in the character of an Injun, and Cousin Beebe in the character of Jonathan--Cousin Mary as Jonathan's Squaw--Jonathan among Ki...

A live Yankee and the Parisian Danseuse--Fanny sends her Card and Jonathan makes a call--Down East Yankee and French-English rather hard to be understood--Jonathan quite killed...

Visit to the Park Theatre--First Impressions of the Poetry of Motion, as written on the air, in the aerial feats of Mademoiselle Celeste--First shock at the exhibition of a Ball...

Jonathan's Arrival in New York from the Onion Beds at Weathersfield--Jonathan puts up at the Astor House--His notion of that great Heap of Stones--Jonathan's Ideas of a New York...

Jonathan gets out of love with Fanny Elssler--Doctors the Ague in her Face and Leaves her--Receives an Invitation from his Pussey Cousin to a Thanksgiving Dinner, with a three c...

Description of Cousin Jason's Equipage--Figure cut by Mrs. Jason Slick and her Daughter--Manners of a Noble Lord--The Dinner--Jason boasts of his Birth, Heraldry, and Coat of Ar...

Jonathan attends the President at the Howard House--Visits the Park Theatre with the President and his Handsome Girl--Goes with Mr. Robert Tyler to have his Hair Cut at Clairhug...

Jonathan arrives in New York--Travels on the Deacon's Mare--Has Trouble with the Colt--Embarks from Peck Slip, on Capt. Doolittle's Sloop, to meet the President--His Introductio...

New-Year's Calls--A real Yankee's New-Year's Treat of Dough-nuts and Cider--Jonathan's ideas of the real difference between a real lady's House and Furniture and the House of a...

Advice to Jonathan from the Humstead--Jonathan's Criticism on his Brother Sam's book--The Ennui of Jonathan in good Society--Jonathan's entree into a Milliner's Establishment, a...