BIB_ID
192858
Accession number
MA 4719
Creator
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Display Date
n.d.].
Credit line
Gift; Mrs. Frances K. Clark; 1991.
Description
1 item (7 p.)
Notes
Stab-sewn with thread.
The donor, Frances Kingsford Clark, is a great-great-great-great-niece of Washington Irving.
The top half of the first page is torn away.
The donor, Frances Kingsford Clark, is a great-great-great-great-niece of Washington Irving.
The top half of the first page is torn away.
Provenance
Irving B. Kingsford, given to his daughter Frances K. Clark.
Summary
This manuscript comprises an early draft fragment for Vol. I, pp. 111-124 of the 1809 first edition of Irving's work, a burlesque history of New York narrated by the comic Dutch-American scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The fragment contains many unpublished passages, and has been studied by Michael L. Black for the Wisconsin Irving edition. The remaining manuscript fragments of the work are at the University of Virginia and the New York Public Library.
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