CHAPTER I.
Preliminary.
It is over twenty years since the death of Washington
Irving removed that personal presence which is always
a powerful, and sometimes the sole, stimulus to the
sale of an autho...
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Washington Irving, the first biography published
in the American Men of Letters Series, came out in
December, 1881. It was an expansion of a biographical
and critical sketch ...
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In the Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern (1902), Charles Dudley Warner is described as "an American man of letters and novelist." Something of his personality and litera...
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Washington Irving
Charles Dudley Warner