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Washington Irving was born in the city of New York, April 3, 1785 ... who saw as clearly as anybody the place of mere literary art in the sum total of life, quoted the dying words of Scott ...

BUT ALSO A PLACE THAT WAS POPULATED WITH LORE AND STORIES THAT REALLY CAPTIVATED HIS YOUNG IMAGINATION. BUT BEFORE AN OLDER IRVING RETURNED TO NEW YORK, HE SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1812, THEN SPENT 17 ...