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.....

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176

CHAPTER XV.

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

CHAPTER XVI.

193

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

CHAPTER XVII.

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

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

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..

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226

CHAPTER XVIII.

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........ 241

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CHAPTER XIX.

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

CHAPTER XX.

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

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.

Paulding.

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CHAPTER XXI.

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..

282

CHAPTER XXII.

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......

298

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CHAPTER XXIII.

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-

pondent...

308

CHAPTER XXIV.

Continuing Indisposition.-Sir Walter Scott.-Bull-fights.-Dread of

the Night.-Spasmodic Affection.-Letter from Prescott.-Vol.

V. of "Life of Washington" going to Press.—Wilkie.—Holmes.

-Prescott's Death.-Restless Nights.-Anxiety to sleep.-His

Last Birthday.....

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329

CHAPTER XXV.

Temporary Improvement.-Letter from Bancroft on Vol. V.-Letter

to John P. Kennedy.-Letter from William C. Preston.-Reply.

-The "Heart of the Andes."-Medical Consultation.-Cogs-

well's Anecdote.-Relapse.-Visit of Kemble.-Discouragement.

-Letter to H. T. Tuckerman on his Notice of Vol. V.......... 348

CHAPTER XXVI.

Last Days.-A Formidable Visit threatened.-A Strange visitor.-

Longfellow and the Acrostic.-Burr.-The Travel to Albany in

Former Days.-Poe.-Clay.-The Camp-meeting.-George Sum-

ner. The Irishwoman's Sixpence.-Visit of N. P. Willis.—Of

Theodore Tilton.-Last Interview with a Stranger.-Death and

Funeral....

361

LIFE AND LETTERS

OF

WASHINGTON IRVING.

CHAPTER I.

LETTER TO MISS CATHERINE IRVING. - PASSAGES FROM LETTERS TO MRS. PARIS. THE QUEEN GIVING AUDIENCE.-DIPLOMATIC CONVERSATION WITH ROYALTY.INSURRECTION IN BARCELONA.-DEPARTURE OF THE REGENT.THE SOLITARY RAVEN.-ATTACKS OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER" AND GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE."-LETTERS ON THE SUBJECT.-LITERARY OCCUPATION.

HERE is a vein of drollery in a portion of the following, to one of the youthful members of his home establishment, quite in character:—

MY DEAR KATE:

[To Miss Catherine Irving.]

MADRID, November 15, 1842.

Your letter of October 1st reached me a few days since, and gave me a very sunshiny account of affairs at pleasant little Sunnyside. I thus enjoy, by reflection, the bright days which pass at that brightest of little homes. My present home is enlivened by the return of the young trav