Autograph Letter Signed ("your affectionate uncle / Washington Irving"), to William Irving Dodge.

Washington, D.C: June 13, 1832.

Price: $650.00


About the item

2 pp. 4to. Bifolium. Neat repairs to address leaf, minor split along fold, faint browning.

Item #309072

Irving writes to his nephew, New York State Senator William Irving Dodge, the son of Irving's sister Ann Sarah: "I thank you for your very kind and affectionate letter. It will give me great pleasure to visit you in the ... summer time and to revisit the old scenes of Johnstown. I have had ... gratifying accounts of your success in life, and of the creditable manner in which you have acquitted yourself in various public situations, especially from Mr [Martin] Van Buren who seems to maintain a high respect for you..."