Title: Washington Irving Letter

Date/Date Range :   1852

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This is a simple correspondence, exchanging Christmas and New Year greetings with George Putnam.

Call number: MS-0218

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection is the property of the Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Washington Irving Letter, MS-0218. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This is a single folder collection.

Irving was born in New York City 1783. He was a writer, best known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in which the schoolmaster Ichabold Crane meets with a headless horseman, and Rip Van Winkle, about a man who falls asleep for 20 years. From 1848 to 1859 he was President of Astor Library, later New York Public Library. Irving died on November 28, 1859.

This is a simple correspondence, exchanging Christmas and New Year greetings with George Putnam.

• Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.