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Anti-Slavery Society offices, and the fact that the
Emancipator
had used its resources shortly
before the Grimké-Weld project began suggests that forty years after the fact, Weld simply got
the name of the room wrong, possibly mixing it up with the name of one or more similar rooms
in other cities ( “ Reading Room Gleanings, ”
Emancipator
42.163 [February 15, 1838]: col. A). In
1834, Gilpin's cost seven dollars a year to use, or, for “strangers,” seventy-five cents per month;
see Edwin Williams,
NewYork As It Is, in 1834; and Citizens' Advertising Directory Containing a General
Description of the City and Environs
(New York: Disternall, 1834), 159.
40. An engraving showing the interior of the “Reading Room of the Merchants Exchange
and Newsroom” appeared in
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
, May 30, 1863, 147. It is on the
Mr. Lincoln and NewYork website (Lincoln Institute): http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org
(accessed January 28, 2012).
