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IRVINGS WORKS, GEOFFREY CRAYON EDITION COMPLETE IN 27 VOLUMES. VOL. XXV. LIFE AND LETTERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING VOL. I GEOPPREY CRAYON EDDION GEOFETREY CRAYON EDITION THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING BY HIS NEPHEW PIERRE M. IRVLNG W THREE VOLCTMlCS - 1869 - PREFACE TO THE FIRST E DITION. THE work, of which I now offer the first volume to the public with the most unfeigned mdence, has been mainly compiled from papers committed to me by Mr. Irving, with the understanding that I was to construct a biography from them, should it be my fate to survive him. Somebody will be writing my life when I am gone, said he to me some years beforephis death, and after having resisted repeated applications for an autobiography, and I wish you to do it. You must promise me that you will. Though deeply sensible of the confidence implied in such a request, my first impulse was to decline an office so responsible, and for which I felt myself so little qualified but the request was repeated with an earnestness which showed the subject had seriously engaged his thoughts, and with the assurance that he would be able to place in my keeping materials which he would ody confide to a relative, and which would of themselves go 7 far to furnish a, picture of his life from his fist launch in the world I yielded my scruples to this assurance and not long after, he placed in my possession a mass of material, consisting of journals, note-books, diaries at scattared intervals, and B large collection of family letters, with files of others from various correspondents, which, as he said, he had neither time nor spirit to examine or mange. He afterwards procured for me his numerous letters to his friend, HenryBrevoort, which were fur nished through the kindness of his son, J. Carson Brevoort, Esq. and shortly before his death indicated to me others, both in this country and in Europe, which, if still in existence, might be of interest in a narrative of the shifting scenes of his life. Of these I have been able to obtain, since his death, the originals or copies of such as had been preserved and to them have been added numerous letters, both of his early and later life, which have been contributed by various friends, to whom I here offer my acknowledgments. In the delicate office of sifting, selecting, and arranging these different materials, extending through a period of nearly sixty years, it has been my aim to make the author, in every stage of his career, as far as possible, his own biographer, conscious that I s h d in this way best fulfil1 the duty devolved upon me, and give to the world the truest picture of his life and character. CHAPTER I. PAGB Birth, Parentage, and Ancestry.-William De 1rwin.-Curious l rac ing of the Descent.--Settlement in New York.-Flight to Rah way.-A Prisoners Certificate.-Home of the Authors Boyhood. - His Domestic Training.-His Baptism.-to his Namesake. ............... B .. a . p . t . is . m .. .-. E . a . r . ly .. ... I . n . tr . o . d .. u . c . ti . o . n . 21 CHAPTER Benjamin Romaine. - Passion for Reading. - Longing to see the World.-Commences the Study of the Law.-His Eirst Voyage up the Hudson, as related by himself.. ....................... 81 CHAPTER 111. Enters the Office of Josiah Ogden Hoffmm-The Hoffman Fardy. - First Letters.-First Essays in Print.-Expedition to Ogdemburg.-Extracts from Journal.-Plunge in the Black River.-Capture of aDeer.-Hardships of the Wilderness.-A Jealoqs. Savage.-Indian Ceremonial. - An Exchange of Names.-Ogdensbug Revisited ............................................. 40 9 10 CONTENTB. CHAPTER IV...Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen, Taschenbuch.

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