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From Barcelona to Paris.-Marseilles.— Avignon.-Lyons.-Ver-

sailles. Havre.-Leaves Havre for London.-- Slips through

London quietly.-At the Shrubbery.-Back to France.— Visit to

King Louis Philippe.-Letter to Mrs. Paris.-Court Gayeties.-

Musings in the Royal Pile.....

Extract from a Letter to Mrs. Paris.-Narvaez.-Passages from Let-

ters to Mrs. Storrow.-Letter to Mrs. Paris.-Transfer of his

Establishment, intending to send in his Resignation.-Resolves

on a Brief Visit to Paris.-Lingers there to see Mr. McLane, the

American Minister at the Court of St. James.-Transmits his

Resignation.-Visits London.-The Oregon Dispute.-Letter to

Pierre M. Irving.-Return to Madrid...

A Literary Freak.-The Old Moorish Chronicles.-The Saddle-horse.

-Completion of his Improvements.- New York as it was and

is.-His Last Job.-Hard at Work on the "Life of Washington."

Letter to Miss Catherine Irving...

Historical Extract from a Diplomatic Dispatch.-Hears of the Ap-

pointment of a Successor.-His Feeling in Regard to the War

with Mexico.-Allusion to the Settlement of the Oregon Ques-

tion.- Arrival of General Saunders.- Audience of Leave.-

Return to Sunnyside.-The Addition.-Preparing a Complete

Edition of his Works.-Letter to Gouverneur Kemble.......... 106

Dinner at John Jacob Astor's.-Conversation about Ghosts.-The

Opera-house, one of the Great Charms of New York.-The Pro-

jected Railroad along the Banks of the Hudson.-Impending

Desecration of Sunnyside.-Letter to Hackett.-Arrangement

with Mr. Putnam for the Republication of his Works.—“Knick-

erbocker."- Author's Remarks about the Revised Edition.—

Notice of Henry T. Tuckerman.-A German Commentator cit-

ing Knickerbocker."- Scheffer's "Christus Consolator."-

Notices of the Republication of the "Sketch Book."- Liberal

Reception of the Revised Series.......

Letters to Gouverneur Kemble.-Durand's Picture.-The Horrors of

the Steam Whistle.-Letter to George Ticknor.-The "Embo-
zado."-Letter to Mrs. Storrow.-Death of President Taylor.-

Visit to James K. Paulding.-Jenny Lind.-Letter to Miss Ham-
ilton.-The Author's Hegira....

Unprecedented Sale of Revised Edition of the "Sketch Book."-

Engaged upon a "Life of Goldsmith."-Its Publication.-Rip-

ley's Notice. Critique of George W. Greene.-Appearance of
"Mahomet and his Successors."-The Revised "Alhambra " and

"Conquest of Granada.”—Anxiety to begin anew on "Life of
Washington."

Application for an Original Thought.-Boring Letters.-Letter to Jesse
Merwin, the Original of Ichabod Crane.-His Last Portrait.-Let-

ter to Mrs. Storrow.-The "Reveries of a Bachelor."-The "Scar-

let Letter."-Letter to M. H. Grinnell.-Bohn's Infringement of

Copyright.-Letter to Bentley.-Letter of John Murray.---Letter

to John Barney.-Letter to H. T. Tuckerman, alluding to

Rogers, and to Article in "Homes of American Authors."-

Letter to William C. Bryant on the Subject of the Different

Portraits of Columbus..

Letter to Mrs. Storrow.-Coup d'État of Louis Napoleon.-Kossuth.

-Letter to Gouverneur Kemble.-The Cooper Commemoration.

-Bryant's Allusion to the Coolness between Cooper and Irving.

-What the latter said about it.-A Prospectus for a Course of

Lectures sent to him.-Letter thereupon.-Letters from Sara-

toga.-Anecdotes of Charles Augustus Davis.-The Irving Liter-

ary Union.-A Breakfast with Sontag.-Letter to Miss Hamil-

ton.-Letter to George P. Putnam

Letter to Mrs. Storrow.-Louis Napoleon and Eugenie Montijo.-

Seventieth Birthday.-Letter to Hon. Robert C. Winthrop.-

At New York, on his Way to Baltimore.-Letter from Baltimore.—

Meets Thackeray in the Cars.-Hospitable Reception at Balti-

more.-Departure for Washington.-Letters from Washington.

-At Work among the Archives of the State Department.-A

Miniature Anchor presented to him.-Its History.-Table-tip-

ping. Reminiscences of the Family of the Empress of France.

-Letter to Mrs. Kennedy, after his return to Sunnyside....... 213

Wilkie's Sketch.-Letter to Mr. Gray.-To Mrs. Kennedy.-

Second Letter to Mr. Winthrop.-Letter to Miss Mary E. Ken-

nedy.-Leaves Sunnyside on an Excursion.-Letters during his

Absence.-Letter on his Return.

Excursion to the Springs. - Niagara, etc.-Extract of Letter to

Miss Mary E. Kennedy.-Ogdensburg revisited.-Letter to John

P. Kennedy.-Extract of Letter to Mrs. Storrow.- His final

Resting-place marked out.-Sets off on an Excursion.-Letter to

Miss Sarah Irving.—The Irving House.-Travelling on his Capi-

tal. The St. Nicholas Hotel. Extract from Letter to Miss

Catherine Irving. - Expedition to Winchester and Greenway

Court.-Return to Sunnyside.-Letter to Mrs. Kennedy....

A New-Year Salutation.—Publication of Wolfert's Roost.-Extract

from Some of the Notices.-Anecdote respecting Mountjoy.-

Publication of Volume I. of the "Life of Washington."— An

Equestrian Overthrow. - Letter to John P. Kennedy. - Letter

Extract from Letter to Mrs. Kennedy.-No Desire to travel with Po-

litical Notorieties.-Extract from Letter to Mrs. Sanders Irving.

-His Old Dancing-school Days.-A Breakfast at John Duer's.

-The Name of Dearman changed to Irvington.-Contributions

to the "Knickerbocker Gallery."-To Mrs. Kirkland.-Letter to

John P. Kennedy.-Visit to Idlewild.-The "Home Journal's "

Account of Conversation about Moore. - Letters to John P.

Kennedy.-Letter to Mrs. Storrow.-European Reminiscences.. 252

from Bancroft on Receipt of Vol. I. of "Life of Washington.'

-Determines to complete the Work. - Passage from Letter to

Mrs. Storrow.-Impatient to get Vol. II. ready for the Press.——

Reply to Invitation from Moses Thomas. Letter to James K.

Publication of Vol. II. of "Life of Washington."-Letter from

Prescott.-Letter to Henry T. Tuckerman.-Letter of Charles L.

Brace on Vol. II.-Letter to Bancroft.-Letter to John P.

Kennedy.-Letter to Gouverneur Kemble.-Publication of Vol.

III.-Mrs. Emily Fuller to Washington Irving.-Reply.-Letter

from Dickens.-Letter to Mrs. Storrow..

Letters to Charles Lanman.-Fourth Volume of "Life of Washing-

ton" going through the Press.-Letter to Henry T. Tuckerman.

---Publication of Vol. IV.-Letter from George Bancroft.-Re-

ply.-Letter to Frederick S. Cozzens.-Letter from William H.

Prescott.-Letter from J. Lothrop Motley.-Letter from S. Aus-

tin Allibone, and Reply.....

A Literary Harvest.-Engaged on his Fifth Volume.-Letter to Mrs.

Storrow. The Crisis of 1857.-Conversation. -Kemble.-Cooke.

-Cooper.-Darley and Diedrich Knickerbocker.-Washington

Allston.-Letter to Bancroft.-Letter to Professor Lieber.-The

Atlantic Cable.-Indisposition.-Letter to a Juvenile Corres-

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