The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Cheap Benevolence

An Old Boy. "Cheap Benevolence." Vanity Fair, March 10, 1860, 174.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
letter to the editor
Abstract

Letter to the Vanity Fair asking that instead of the newsboys giving their own paltry sum to help victims of a recent tragedy, the paper should reach into its deep, money-bunched pockets and save the sellers the trouble.