Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Life and letters of Washington Irving : 3, Volumen27Putnam, 1869 - 394 páginas |
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... Improvements . - New York as it was and is . - His Last Job . - Hard at Work on the " Life of Washington . " Letter to Miss Catherine Irving ....... 121 CHAPTER XI . Dinner at John Jacob Astor's . Conversation CONTENTS . 9.
... Improvements . - New York as it was and is . - His Last Job . - Hard at Work on the " Life of Washington . " Letter to Miss Catherine Irving ....... 121 CHAPTER XI . Dinner at John Jacob Astor's . Conversation CONTENTS . 9.
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... dinner among you . I hope you kept up Christmas in the usual style , and that the cottage was decked with evergreens . You must not let my absence cause any relax- ations in the old rules and customs of the cottage ; everything must go ...
... dinner among you . I hope you kept up Christmas in the usual style , and that the cottage was decked with evergreens . You must not let my absence cause any relax- ations in the old rules and customs of the cottage ; everything must go ...
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... dinners where he formerly gave one ; though that can hardly be , as he formerly , in general , gave one dinner and a half per diem , the latter being smuggled into the household economy under the name of a supper . God bless his ...
... dinners where he formerly gave one ; though that can hardly be , as he formerly , in general , gave one dinner and a half per diem , the latter being smuggled into the household economy under the name of a supper . God bless his ...
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... obliges me to abstain from all literary occupations , and half disables me for social intercourse . If I could only exercise my pen , I should be quite another being . I am preparing to give a diplomatic dinner , which 61.
... obliges me to abstain from all literary occupations , and half disables me for social intercourse . If I could only exercise my pen , I should be quite another being . I am preparing to give a diplomatic dinner , which 61.
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