Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-07-01
From the oswogo Palladium.
WASHINGTON IRVING.
OswEGo, june 8, 1881

OswEGo, juno s, 1881
To the Editor of The Richmond Hing:
SIR-On my passage tn ough this place TO the Falls
was inhntely grsiihed in perusing the Ii,eraIv mo
RAJ ana political character OF Washin gon living a
AZ. oy you IN late paper II is clear that
OF century, AID in all that time has soD,rived 10
cheat The world into foolish admiration of BIZ, ia
ien's and lalse estimate of his character and prluei
pies. p'''''
when the pr9frsSion Of republicsnism in our sense
me ,eo'd and in this country, was likely TO get more
h,eHs man eoPpers, Mr.. Irving mere professor
NOV, mat la Fog gland reform |, appfoxma,ing IL, in
su'uiions 10 our own, Wash. as we ussd 10 call him.
ms turned aristocrat and courter. NV old aeou,nt
anee formerly was pulled of man of temper ,hou
WOO 'nd conci'tiog, ye, firm and tue. He now ap.
pears 10 be sycephaDt aud toad. eater; Cad nc old
Dsnns wa. won't To say OF Addison aud Pope i, is no,
unlkeiy-i always thought 20. Some amongst n, ON
ms SIDE oil the Atlantic Affected TO be tcklsd very early
WIN hnekorbocksfs humor, others went 80 far as 10
say that In America there might be found evep
oil dieion; class OF literary masons secTetv teyer-
enced knek in stock book, until emtoIdeped by il.
European success, they openly approved H. In the in
teiim in contempt Of rSIs and criticism the book ran
the round Of ihi' continent il the Devil had been
barking at i's heels. recolleci being at Long
Respectable ma'ron TO ask for Knickerhotksr Long
worth, you NUT know, lived then in 3fosdw,v near
the theatre and opposite the Park. By aud by in same
a'hfee-eornered Dutch hat 10 inquire Tor
r,-.. ."o1m quiz g, jcksIoI,
NJ roa'iem 'os,tom smokem tolkssss,
nov no ue'H bOuk', eyS 4, 10 II they ask for -
why, book written by ZONE one at ri, place bu,
don't think much OF IL, though lbore has been run
Tor ~ lie, mo look at IT, says L. There il is, says
he, throwing II down the counter very csrelessiy
~ will never succeed, says I, after a slight slspee
NO., says he, 1T has not so'iGi In -noihnE abou,
Burke, or Pat or Bony, Euripp, ,r ieiherAiism or
democracy or Jtfer'en, or Adams, H,tnilton and
sueh IKE. Oh says L. taking smother look al IL cad
SUIT an attempt at humor, with a slight elevation OIL
the eye brows. Stop, says again bsre is something
soou' an indian bursting out from The woois in full
dfess'wrh the war whooP, and startling old Hudson
ne he sails down the river for the fret time mo- raw,
This will not succesdit IL an attempt at fine wit,
lng-ioolish fellow. That sapls esnnoi be yo ksd or
TO account in our sountfy' Well now ssgs Io. q
~ tell whose its II you WON peach 'Not /, ssyi
L. go Long, whiPers -------.' You dot', "a,
so lniSh, have guessed Jack, or either Of The o.
h,r brother, but that thing is TOO rGo good fellow
allow, but pity bin, Long wortb;' spd turning or
my heel walked of to read Burke and Aris,ides nd
the FederaiiIt.
vel, about two ontbs after, meeting my old friend
Longwotth--E GU have decent literary nose for some
Kind OF things, said he 'but that there book IL out Of
your lines Why looks nan, have had orders for suo-
mer edinoD, and another, and another Well SAYS T.
feeling deyslIsh mad and some what annoyed we shall