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Page iii Washington Irving History, Tales and Sketches LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE, GENT. SALMAGUNDI or, The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others A HISTORY OF NEW YORK From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty THE SKETCH BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.

Page iv Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright 1983 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced commercially by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without the permission of the publisher. The texts of Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent., Salmagundi, and The Sketch Book are Copyright 1977, 1978 by C. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Books USA Inc and in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-5474 For Cataloging in Publication Data, see end of Notes section. ISBN 0-940450-14-3 Sixth Printing The Library of America16 Manufactured in the United States of America

Page v JAMES W. TUTTLETON WROTE THE NOTES FOR THIS VOLUME

Page vii This volume prints the texts of Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent., Salmagundi, and The Sketch Book from The Complete Works of Washington Irving edited by Bruce I. Granger, Martha Hartzog, Haskell Springer, Henry A. Pochmann, Herbert L. Kleinfield, Richard Dilworth Rust, and Edwin T. Bowden and published by Twayne Publishers.

Page ix CONTENTS Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent 1 Salmagundi 45 A History of New York 363 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent 731 Chronology 1093 Note on the Texts 1121 Notes 1127

Page 1 LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE GENT.

Page 3 Contents Letter I. November 15, 1802 5 Letter II. November 20, 1802 7 Letter III. December 1, 1802 10 Letter IV. December 4, 1802 14 Letter V. December 11, 1802 19 Letter VI. January 17, 1803 23 Letter VII. January 22, 1803 27 Letter VIII. February 8, 1803 33 Letter IX. April 23, 1803 39

Page 5 Letter I Printed in The Morning Chronicle, November 15, 1802. Mr. Editor, If the observations of an odd old fellow are not wholly superfluous, I would thank you to shove them into a spare corner of your paper. It is a matter of amusement to an uninterested spectator like myself, to observe the influence fashion has on the dress and deportment of its votaries, and how very quick they fly from one extreme to the other. A few years since, the rage was; very high crowned hats with very narrow brims, tight neckcloth, tight coat, tight jacket, tight small clothes, and shoes loaded with enormous silver buckles: the hair craped, plaited, queued and powdered:in short, an air of the greatest spruceness and tightness diffused over the whole person. The ladies, with their tresses neatly turned up over an immense cushion; waist a yard long, braced up with stays into the smallest compass, and encircled by an enormous hoop: so that the fashionable belle resembled a walking bottle. Thus dressed, the lady was seen, with the most bewitching languor, reclining on the arm of an extremely attentive beau, who, with a long cane, decorated with an enormous tassel, was carefully employed in removing every stone, stick or straw that might impede the progress of his tottering companion, whose high-heel'd shoes just brought the points of her toes to the ground. What an alteration has a few years produced!We now behold our gentleman, with the most studied carelessness, and almost slovenliness of dress; large hat, large coat, large neckcloth, large pantaloons, large boots, and hair scratch'd into every careless direction, lounging along the streets in the most apparent listlessness and vacuity of thought; staring with an unmeaning countenance at every passenger, or leaning upon the arm of some kind fair one for support, with the other hand cramm'd into his breeches pocket. Such is the picture of a modern beau: in his dress stuffing himself up to the

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