Very truly, your obliged
WASHINGTON IRVING.
EDWARD EVERETT wrote:
I fully concur with the opinions expressed by Mr. Irving on the
subject of a collective edition of your narrative and descriptive
writings. While I am not familiar with all of them, from those which I
have read and from his emphatic and discriminating commendation, I am
confident the series would be welcomed by a large class of readers.
You have explored nooks in our scenery seldom visited, and described
forms of life and manners of which the greater portion of our busy
population are entirely ignorant.