A Composition on the Pigs of the City

Author Gilbert W. Hopkins American
Recipient Mr. Hubbs American

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This essay on the pigs that still roamed lower Manhattan in 1843, eating garbage, was written by a student at New York's Commercial and Collegiate School for a Mr. Hubbs (probably Isaac G. Hubbs, 1790-1855 a teacher at that institution).

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