Papers of and regarding Washington Irving [manuscript], 1813-1919.

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Papers of and regarding Washington Irving [manuscript], 1813-1919.

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The collection contains manuscripts including Washington Irving's account book ca. 1840-1845, signature of Washington Irving 1836-1837, "Anecdote of the Young Physician" n.d., "Literary Life" n.d., notes re: "Prester John" n.d., notes re: Spanish politics [not in W. I.'s hand; possibly a trans. of some of his notes] 1842 November 5, unidentified leaves (including second copy of notes re: "Adam and the Fall" n.d., and a poem included in a letter from Washington Irving to Mrs. John Foster 1826 May 7 entitled "To Miss Emily Foster on Her Birthday." The collection also contains letters from correspondents and recipients including Sir Walter Scott, Henry Brevoort, Thomas Campbell to Peter Irving, Jane Frothingham, John Frothingham, Lady Spencer, Thomas Moore, S. M. Lane, I. W. Newton, William S. Libbey, Richard Winfield, James Edward Alexander, Ebenezer Irving, Aaron Vail, Mary, E. C. Cleaveland, E. R. Tucker, E. L. C., Gouverneur Kemble, D. Appleton and Company, S. W. Halsted, M. Guilliam, James Beekman, Irving Paris, John Boyd, S. K. Burkholder, S. F. R. Abbey, Perrin, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Emily Foster Fuller, Joseph Robertson, Pierre Irving, Irving Van Wart, Samuel Austin Allibone, William Lambert, William Alving, B. Douglass and Co., Julia, Helen, S. A. Frothingham, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Catherine Paris, James Lenox, Kate, Abram, Eurowsky, E. Hunn, Jr., J. D. Fish, J. Forster, Henry Alexander, Sarah, Eliza, Marshall Field, W. W. Sherman, John Stewart, M. R. Pryor, John J. McCook, Frederick Libby, George Irving, Henry Bellows, Oscar Irving, Melville deLancey Landon ("Eli Perkins"), T. Eames, Mrs. Irving, Maggie, Kitty, and Thomas Longman. Collection also includes photographs and prints. Etching, signed 1851 December 15 of Washington Irving's head and shoulders. 17 postcards and printed photos n.d. showing New York City, ca. 1739-1800. Miscellaneous items in this collection include a Canadian penny token 1843; a United States ten-cent bill 1849; a state of Virginia 5 Dollar bill 1858; a Confederate States of America 100 dollar bond 1863; a Conferderate States of America 20 dollar bill.

ca.115 items.

University of Virginia. Library

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