The complete online text of The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving.

"I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle & frenchhorn," Washington Irving said in an 1819 letter. While his flute music for a time was a dominant strain, it still remains discernible in t...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with The Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with the Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

My daughter cheated on a test the other day, a 7-year-old's mistake that was born not out of maliciousness, but out of her efforts to please. At her age, she doesn't see the world entirely in terms of right and wrong. Her...

It doesn't seem like much - some loose-leaf paper, a few crayons, pencils, stickers, envelopes and postage stamps - but these items can strengthen the parent and child relationship. Boxed and wrapped, the items become a Communication Box. The boxes are delivered to...