Henry George received a Bible and a copy of "James's
Anxious Enquirer"; and the next morning, bidding fare-
well at the wharf to his father, and uncles Thomas Lati-
mer and Joseph Van Dusen, his cousin George Latimer
and his friends Col Walton and Joe Roberts, he and Cap-
tain Miller went aboard the steamboat, crossed the Dela-
ware, took train, and four hours afterwards were in New
York. Two letters from him, written from the ship be-
fore she got away, have been preserved. They are in
large, clear, firm hand, with some shading, some flour-
ishes and a number of misspelled words. In the first,
under date of April 6, he says:

"I signed the shipping articles at $6 a month and
two months' advance, which I got in the morning.

"While we were down town we stopped at the Cus-
tom House, and Jim [an ordinary seaman] and I got a
protection, for which we paid $1 each to a broker.

"The New York Custom House looks like a cooped
up affair along side of the Philadelphia one -- there are
so many people and so much business and bustle.

"The upper part of New York is a beautiful place --
the streets wide, clear and regular; the houses all a
brown stone and standing ten or twenty feet from the
pavement, with gardens in front."

To the foregoing letter was added this:

April 7, 1855.

"I was stopped [writing] suddenly last night by the
entrance of the men to haul her [the vessel] to the end
of the wharf and was prevented from going on by their
laughing and talking. At about twelve o'clock we com-
menced and by some pretty hard heaving we got her to
the end of the wharf. It was then about two o'clock.
So we turned in and slept until about half past five.
We got our breakfast, and being taken in tow by a
steamboat about 7.30 A.M., proceeded down the stream

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