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Washington Irving

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by Brian Jay Jones

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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