Autograph letters signed (22) : Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Seville, Warsaw, Constantinople, and [n.p.], to Washington Irving, 1828-1844 and [n.d.].

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Autograph letters signed (22) : Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Seville, Warsaw, Constantinople, and [n.p.], to Washington Irving, 1828-1844 and [n.d.].

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From the Russian diplomat who served in Madrid, London, Rome, and Constantinople. Dolgorouki and Irving were close friends while Irving was in Spain working on his life of Columbus and the Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, the manuscript of which is in the Morgan Library. The two made a trip to Granada together in May 1829 to visit the Alhambra. Notes from Constance d'Oubril, the wife of the Russian minister in Madrid, are appended to 3 of the letters (3, 14, and 22), and 2 have notes from her daughter Marie, in a childish hand (3, 22).

25 items (95 p.) ; 25.1 cm and smaller.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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