Literary New York . arcely lived long enough toinclude his novels, Tom Thornton andPaul Felton, and some contributionsfrom Washington Allston and Bryant. Many a good idea came from themeetings at the City Hotel, but pos-sibly none more felicitous than thatof the Bread-and-Cheese Club. Thisremained so long in the germ that therealization seemed far off, but finally,in T824, began the holding of its fort-nightly meetings in Washington Hall— afterwards swept away to giveplace to the Stewart Building atBroadway and Reade Street. Theclub derived its name from Coopersconceit of having candidates bal
Literary New York . arcely lived long enough toinclude his novels, Tom Thornton andPaul Felton, and some contributionsfrom Washington Allston and Bryant. Many a good idea came from themeetings at the City Hotel, but pos-sibly none more felicitous than thatof the Bread-and-Cheese Club. Thisremained so long in the germ that therealization seemed far off, but finally,in T824, began the holding of its fort-nightly meetings in Washington Hall— afterwards swept away to giveplace to the Stewart Building atBroadway and Reade Street. Theclub derived its name from Coopersconceit of having candidates ballotedfor with bread and cheese, a bit ofbread favoring election and cheesedeciding against it. As Cooper had in the main origin-al Literary New York ated the club, he was the leadingspirit around whom gathered Halleckand Bryant, Percival, Professor Ren-wick, Dr. J. W. Francis, and all thewriters of the day. An enthusiasticmember was Philip, Hone, who had just retired frombought a house at 235 business andB roadway. opposite the park, a site considered agood way uptown for a residence. Hisdiary, which in after years led him tobe called the Pepys of America, wascommenced in this house, but thegreater part was written at his resi-dence of later date, at the southwest I33 Cooper and His Friends comer of Broadway and Great JonesStreet. Gulian C. Verplanck was a mem-ber too. At the time he occupied aprofessorship in the General Theo-logical Seminary. From one of themeetings he walked down Broadwayand through Wall Street past thehouse, near Broad Street, where hewas born, discussing wjth Bryant andRobert C. Sands an early sugges-tion of the Talisman magazine/whichwas not to ripen into an accomplishedfact for a good three years. On thissame walk, too, he took part whileBryant and Sands discussed plans forthe Atlantic Monthly, which Sandsestablished the next year. But writers were not the only mem-bers of the Bread-and-Cheese were scholars and professionalmen, and often the
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