Letters of Note: New York CityBy: Series: Letters of Note An exciting new volume of letters about the Capital of the World from George Washington, Kahlil Gibran, Audrey Hepburn, Martin Scorsese, and more from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections Peter Schagen writes to the Dutch West India Company about the purchase of "Manhattes." Mayor Ambrose Kingsland urges the city council to create what became Central Park. E. B. White bemoans taxi cab design to Harold