A history of New York : autograph manuscript fragment : [n.p., n.d.].

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A history of New York : autograph manuscript fragment : [n.p., n.d.].

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This manuscript comprises an early draft fragment for Vol. I, pp. 111-124 of the 1809 first edition of Irving's work, a burlesque history of New York narrated by the comic Dutch-American scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The fragment contains many unpublished passages, and has been studied by Michael L. Black for the Wisconsin Irving edition. The remaining manuscript fragments of the work are at the University of Virginia and the New York Public Library.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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