Literary New York . The Poet of the Revolution friendship of Freneau and LindleyMurray might have ripened, but thatin the year after their meeting Mur-ray went to England, where he wasto devote himself, for his own amuse-ment, to horticulture, in a pretty lit-tle garden beside his home near York,and where he wrote his famous gram-mar for a young ladies school. Even in the lifetime of Freneau,changes came to Hanover Square.For more than half a century it wasthe Newspaper Row, then it gradu-ally became the dry-goods district,then settled down to a general centrefor wholesale houses. At one corne
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Literary New York . The Poet of the Revolution friendship of Freneau and LindleyMurray might have ripened, but thatin the year after their meeting Mur-ray went to England, where he wasto devote himself, for his own amuse-ment, to horticulture, in a pretty lit-tle garden beside his home near York, and where he wrote his famous gram-mar for a young ladies school. Even in the lifetime of Freneau, changes came to Hanover Square.For more than half a century it wasthe Newspaper Row, then it gradu-ally became the dry-goods district, then settled down to a general centrefor wholesale houses. At one cornerof the square lived for a time JeanVictor Moreau, the French General, after he had been banished for sup-posed participation in the plot of Ca-doudal and Pichegru against the lifeof the First Consul. In the years that followed the Revo-lution, Freneau spent much of his61 Literary New York. Tract rices? time in sea trips, but he was in thecity again when George Washingtontook the oath of office asthe first President of^IL. the UnitedStates atthe Fed-eral Hallin WallStreet;and wasin the quaintSt. Pauls Chapel, then quite a newstructure, when Washington wentthere on the day of his inauguration.In the same year, Freneau lived fora time in Wall Street, close by thehouse where Alexander Hamiltonlived, who in those days was a figurein literary New York by reason ofhis writing of the Federalist papers.That was thirteen years before Ham-ilton occupied his country house, TheGrange, far up the island, which 6! The Poet of the Revolution