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Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
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Gulian Crommelin Verplanck was an American attorney, politician, and writer. He was elected to the New York State Assembly and Senate, and later to the United States House of Representatives from New York, where he served as chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee.
Richard Irving Dodge was a colonel in the United States Army. Dodge was born in North Carolina and died after a long and successful career in the U.S. Army. He began as a cadet in 1844 and retired as a Colonel May 19, 1891.
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1802) is a collection of nine observational letters written by American writer Washington Irving under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. The letters first appeared in the November 15, 1802, edition of the New York Morning Chronicle, a political-leaning newspaper partially owned by New Yorker Aaron Burr and edited by Irving's brother Peter. The letters were printed at irregular intervals until April 23, 1803. The letters lampoon marriage, manners, dress, and culture of early 19th-century New York City. They are Irving's début in print.
The Knickerbocker Group was a somewhat indistinct group of 19th-century American writers. Its most prominent members included Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant. Each was a pioneer in general literature—novels, poetry and journalism.
The Knickerbocker Building is an eclectic, Dutch Colonial Revival industrial building located at 50-52 Webster Avenue in the city of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York.
Mahomet and His Successors is a book written by American author Washington Irving, and published in 1850 and a follow-up to his previous book Life of Mahomet.
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Frederick Saunders was an English-born American librarian.
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- ↑ Dodge, Richard Irving (2002). The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780806134253 . Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ↑ Docent Tour (October 28, 2017). "Home of the Legend: Washington Irving's Sunnyside". Historic Hudon Valley.
- ↑ Irving, Peter (1943). Peter Irving's Journals. New York Public Library. pp. 10, 45, 113. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Burstein, Andrew (2008). The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving. Basic Books. p. 33. ISBN 9780786722228 . Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- 1 2 Allibone, Samuel Austin (1897). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century. Containing Over Forty-six Thousand Articles (authors), with Forty Indexes of Subjects. J. B. Lippincott. p. 317. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ↑ Irving, Washington; Allibone, Samuel Austin (1858). Irving Vignettes: Vignette Illustrations of the Writings of Washington Irving. G.P. Putnam. p. 10 . Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ↑ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "Irving family of New York". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
- ↑ Hough, Franklin Benjamin (1858). The New York Civil List: Containing the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time. Weed, Parsons and Co. p. 118 . Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ↑ Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1978). The Prose Writers of America, 4th Edition. Garrett Press, Inc. p. 201. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ↑ Jones, Brian Jay (2008). Washington Irving: An American Original . New York: Arcade Publishing. p. 331. ISBN 978-1-55970-836-4.
- ↑ Peter Irving (1943). Peter Irving's Journals. Editors: Leonard Brothwell Beach, Theodore Hornberger, Wyllis Eaton Wright. New York Public Library.
