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                  The Riverside Biographical Series

                              NUMBER 11


                  [Illustration: Washington Irving]



                          WASHINGTON IRVING


                                  BY

                           HENRY W. BOYNTON




                         BOSTON AND NEW YORK

                    HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

                    The Riverside Press, Cambridge

                                 1901



                 COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HENRY W. BOYNTON

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CONTENTS


CHAP.                                    PAGE

  I.  EARLY YEARS AND SURROUNDINGS         1

 II.  MAN ABOUT TOWN                      16

III.  MAN OF LETTERS--FIRST PERIOD        35

 IV.  MAN OF L