BIB_ID
192824
Accession number
MA 4718
Creator
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Display Date
[1835].
Credit line
Gift of Irving Bowdoin Kingsford, Jr., 1991.
Description
1 item (119 p.), bound ; various sizes.
Notes
Although Irving achieved early fame with his Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809), he abandoned writing for several years to take charge of the family business in Liverpool. In August and September 1817, Irving visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford. Scott encouraged Irving to return to writing, and two years later he published his most successful work, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which included the stories of "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." For his three-volume The Crayon Miscellany in 1835, Irving recalled his 1817 visit to Scott in a sentimental memoir entitled Abbotsford.
With 26 pages of notes and pencil sketches.
With 26 pages of notes and pencil sketches.
Provenance
Irving had no children, and the manuscript passed to his great-niece, Julia Irving Grinnell, who had the manuscript bound in a scrapbook. The volume was passed on to her daughter Edith Grinnell Bowdoin, to her nephew Irving Bowdoin Kingsford, and to his son Irving Kingsford, the great grandson of Julia Irving Grinnell Bowdoin and George S. Bowdoin (a partner of Pierpont Morgan from 1884-1900).
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