Good Content New York Suicides 1823 Letter

Autograph Letter by William N. Sykes, 3pp quarto, New York, July 14, 1823, with integral leaf addressed to his cousin George Sykes of New Jersey, and reads in part: "...There have been several acts of suicide committed in the city within a few days. One of the clerks of the Mechanics Bank one night last week threw himself out of a window in his Boarding house, and was found in the morning suspended to the iron railing on which he fell, he survived about two hours. Another in William Street threw himself from a window and died immediately. A third the evening after the 4th cut his throat only a few doors from our boarding house. Even the idea of mens making way with themselves is so shocking that I almost tremble while I am writing…" More. Fine condition.