London, 48–49, 264–273, 275, 377
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 242, 334, 407
Longworth, David, 57, 59, 60, 61, 76
Loreto, Italy, 43
Louis-Philippe (king), 348, 350, 356
Lowndes, William, 105
Lucerne, Switzerland, 44
Lyttleton, Lady, 194–195
Madison, Dolley, 105–107, 109
Madison, James, 5, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109
Madrid, 234–235, 236, 247, 250.
See also Spain
Mahomet (Irving), 280–281, 388
Manhattan, 4–5, 8. See also New York
Maria Christina (queen mother), 350, 366, 374
Marmion (Scott), 149, 157
Married and Single (Payne), 216
Marseilles, 31
Marshall, John, 69, 71
Masterson, Henry, 13, 16
Matilda (ship), 35–37
Matthews, Arthur, 271–272
McCall, Richard, 53, 54
McComb, John, 52
McLane, Louis, 262–266, 268, 272–273, 275, 276, 296, 308, 311–313, 375–377
Medwin, Thomas, 218
Melville, Gansevoort, 377
Melville, Herman, 377
Mercer, John, 38, 46
Merry, Anthony, 66
Merwin, Jesse, 90
Milan, Italy, 43–44
Miller, John, 151, 185, 188
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Scott), 156
Mitchell, Samuel, 78
Moore, Thomas, 195, 196, 206, 267–268, 271, 273, 297
Morier, John P., 207
Morning Chronicle (newspaper), 19–23, 25–26
Morse, Samuel, 270
Mount Pleasant, 54–55
Muhammad, 117, 247
Murray, John, 163–164, 184, 188–191, 193–194, 197, 198, 217–221, 225, 234
business negotiations with, 274, 279–284, 285–286, 317–318, 319, 320–321
Columbus and, 245–246, 252
disagreements between, 235–236, 258–259
financial difficulties of, 240–241, 280
initial meeting with, 149–152
problems with, 202–203
relationship between Irving and, 253, 254, 266–267, 347
Murray, John III, 286, 377, 388–389
Myers, George, 227
Naples, Italy, 38–39
Napoleon, 30, 105, 116, 126, 127–129, 130, 197
Napoleonic Wars, 13
Narváez, Joaquin, 363–364, 367–368, 372, 374
Native Americans, 112–113, 300, 302, 303, 305
naval biographies, 117–118
Navarette, Martin Fernández de, 233, 235, 241, 257–258
Netherlands, 47–48
Newton, Gilbert Stuart, 170, 171, 294, 299
New York
business climate in, 13–14
as Gotham, 74–75
growth of, 295–296
identity of, 100
political campaigns in, 64–65
return of Irving to, 290–300
social scene in, 51–54
yellow fever outbreak in, 11–12
New York aristocracy, 4
New York Evening Post (newspaper), 18–19, 27, 77, 92–95, 178, 180, 182, 387
New-York Mirror (newspaper), 201, 223, 226, 292, 297, 334
New York politics, 4–5
Nice, 31–33
Nicholas, Charles, 82, 103
Non-Importation Act and Embargo, 79–80, 104–105, 110, 113, 115
Nullification Crisis, 307–310
Ogden, Henry, 53, 54
Ogden, Thomas, 23–24
Oldstyle, Jonathan (pseudonym), 19–23
Oliver Goldsmith (Irving), 387–388
Ordinance of Nullification, 307–310
Orgeon Treaty, 375–376, 377
Orlando Furioso (Ariosto), 6
Osage Indians, 303
Oswegatchie travels, 23–25
Oxford University, 271–272
P. & E. Irving and Company, 103, 110, 115, 133–140, 142, 147, 163, 166–167. See also family business
Paine, Thomas, 12
Paris, Daniel, 7, 18
Paris, France, 45–47, 215–216, 221
Paris, Sarah Sanders (niece), 299, 325, 332, 337, 338.
See also Storrow, Sarah
Parliamentary Act (1825), 269
parodies, 96–97
passports, 30–31
patriotism, 119–120, 121, 244, 316
Patterson, Elizabeth, 116
Paulding, James Kirke
friendship of Irving and, 9–11, 53, 55, 91, 92, 115, 262, 291, 331
marriage of, 142
Salmagundi and, 57–58, 59, 60–61, 70–71, 76, 77
Paulding, William Irving, 55
Pawnee Indians, 303, 305
Payne, John Howard, 175, 186–187, 197, 216–217, 225, 228–230, 234
Peel, Robert, 346
Perry, Oliver, 125
Philadelphia, 5, 63–64
philanthropy, 52
Philipse, Frederick, 103
physical appearance, 30, 47, 267
Pierce, Franklin, 393
Pilot, The (Cooper), 219
Pioneers, The (Cooper), 203
pirated copies, 183–184
plagiarism charges, 357–358
play adaptations, 216–217, 218
Poe, Edgar Allan, 319, 334–335, 408
political activities, 105–110
political appointments, 163, 165, 172–173, 262–263, 296, 330–331, 342–343
political aspirations, 100–101
political campaigns, in New York, 64–65
political satire, 96–97
political views, 65, 301, 330
political writings, 26–27
Polk, James K., 371, 374, 375–376
Porter, David, 53, 121
Pourtales, Albert-Alexandre de, 298, 300, 304, 305
Powell, Peter, 170
Pragmatic Sanction, 349–350
Prescott, William Hickling, 332–333
presidential elections 1800, 18–19 1804, 25–27 1840, 337 1844, 371
Preston, William C., 145–146, 155, 160–163, 306–307
pseudonyms, 19–20, 25, 59, 92, 178, 190–191, 258–259, 272, 296–297, 317
public persona, 88–89, 194, 329
publishing business, 147–148, 149, 163–164
Putnam, George P., 374–375, 385–386, 389, 401
Quarterly Review, 254, 255, 280
Real Academia de la Historia, 256–257
religion, 3
Renwick, James, 131, 136, 137–138, 142, 285, 286, 291, 292, 406
Renwick, Jean, 111–112
Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans, 119
Representative (newspaper), 236, 240
Republicans, 61, 64
reviews. See critics’ reviews
Revolutionary War, 2
Rich, Obadiah, 234–235, 236–237, 247, 252
Richeleieu (Payne), 217, 218, 234
Riley, Isaac, 81
“Rip Van Winkle” (Irving), 169, 178, 190, 298
Rob Roy (Scott), 158, 159
Rogers, Samuel, 271
Romaine, Benjamin, 5–6, 7, 10–11
Romantic poetry, 132
Rome, 39–42
Roost. See Sunnyside Cottage
Royal Literary Fund, 271
Royal Society of Literature, 271
Rush, Richard, 175, 194–195
Salmagundi (periodical), 57–63, 65, 70–71, 73–76, 77, 112, 218, 293
Salzburg, 206
Sanders, Sarah. See Irving, Sarah
Santa Claus, 185
Saunders, Romulus M., 378, 379
schooling. See education
Scotland, 160–161
Scott, Sir Walter, 99, 117, 131, 137, 149–150, 153, 188–189, 197–198, 319, 357
death of, 279
friendship with, 160, 162, 184–185
health p
roblems of, 278–279
meeting with, 154–160
Second Bank of the United States, 329
Second Barbary War, 125–126
Secretary of Legation position, 262–266, 268–270, 272–273, 275
Select Reviews (magazine), 115, 116
Serna, Francisco de la, 260
Seville, Spain, 252
Shelley, Mary, 220, 228–230, 267, 273–274
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, The (Irving), 176–191, 387, 409
British publication of, 183–187, 188–190
essays in, 178, 180–181, 183, 185–186, 187, 189–190
publication of, 177–178
reception of, 176–180, 182, 183, 188
success of, 181–182, 190–191, 195
slavery, 301, 310
Sleepy Hollow, 11, 47–48, 168–169
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 395–396, 406–407
Smith, Ashbel, 371
Smith, Robert, 109
smuggling, 79–80
“Song of Marion's Men” (Bryant), 287, 326
South Carolina, 307–310
Southey, Robert, 246
Spain. See also Madrid
Irving as Minister of, 342–343, 344–379
political unrest in, 349–351, 355–356, 359, 360–363
Spy, The (Cooper), 202
Stael, Madame de, 42, 82
St. Louis, Missouri, 301
Storm, Hall, 33, 34
Storrow, Sarah (niece), 338, 339, 348, 352–353, 364, 370, 401.
See also Paris, Sarah Sanders
Storrow, Thomas Wentworth, 191, 216, 239, 240, 242, 247, 337
storytelling, bias in, 6
Stratford-upon-Avon, 285
Sunnyside Cottage, 320–324, 327, 328–329, 334, 339, 340, 380–381, 383, 385, 396
Swallow Barn (Kennedy), 310
Swift, Jonathan, 99
Switzerland, 44–45
Tales of a Traveller (Irving), 219–223
Tarrytown, 11–12
Tarrytown home. See Sunnyside
Cottage
Texas, 371
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 392
theater
atmosphere of, 10
attendance by Irving at, 9–10
theater reviews, 20–22
Thomas, Moses, 115, 116, 122, 124, 137, 148, 163–164, 169, 203, 222
Tickler, Toby, 26
Tilton, Theodore, 404–405
Tintern Abbey, 131–132
Tompkins, Daniel, 62, 121–122, 123–124
Tour on the Prairies, A (Irving), 316–319, 325–327
trade negotiations, between U.S. and
Britain, 265, 266, 269–270, 272, 274, 275
trade restrictions, 79–80, 104–105, 130–131
Trumbull, John, 51–52
Tyler, John, 342, 344, 367, 369
Typee (Melville), 377
United States
return of Irving to, 290–300
rifts between North and South in, 307–308
trade negotiations between Britain and, 265, 266, 269–270, 272, 274, 275
Upshur, Abel, 363
U.S. Constitution, ratification of, 4
Vail, Aaron, 330
Van Buren, John, 284–285, 311
Van Buren, Martin, 19, 262, 265, 269, 272, 276–278, 284–285, 288–289, 308, 310, 311, 313, 327, 329–331, 336–337, 398
Vanderlyn, John, 46–47
Van Ness, Cornelius, 262
Van Ness, John Peter, 107
Van Ness, William P., 89
Van Ness manor, 311
Van Tassell property, 299–300, 306, 312, 320
Van Wart, Henry, 91, 128, 146–147, 166, 168, 216
Van Wart, Sarah (sister), 128, 347, 370
Van Wart, Irving, 216
Verplanck, Gulian, 179, 308
Victoria (queen), 346
Vienna, 206
Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus (Irving), 275–276
Wallis, Severn, 357
War of 1812, 104, 114, 117–118, 119–122, 125, 130, 131, 133, 298
Washington, D.C., 108, 115, 296, 308, 344–345, 392–393
Washington, George, 2, 4–5
Washington biography. See Life of George Washington
Waverly (Scott), 156, 157
Webb, James, 290
Webster, Daniel, 308, 309, 342, 354–355, 356–357
Wellington, Duke of, 128
Western frontier, 24–25, 300–307
West Point Foundry Association, 298
Whig party, 337, 376 “Widow and Her Son, The” (Irving), 161–162
Wiley, Charles, 202
Wilkins, Martin, 56
Wilkinson, James, 66, 67, 69–70
Willes, William, 170
William IV (king), 274
Wirt, William, 163
Wolfert's Roost. See Sunnyside Cottage
Wolfert's Roost (Irving), 396–397
Woman of the Cliffs, 12
Woodbury, Levi, 275
Wordsworth, William, 132
World Displayed, The, 6–7
writer's block, 205, 215, 217, 276, 353–354
writing deciding on, as career, 172–173, 175–176
lack of interest in, 103–104
as nonviable career path, 12, 124–125, 148, 249–250
Ximinez, Mateo, 251, 260
yellow fever, 8, 11–12
Zurich, 44–45
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