Note 32 — INTRODUCTION.

The story of this undertaking is told in Pierre Irving’s Life of Washington Irving, vol. ii. chaps. xiv., xv., xvi. The book was kindly reviewed by Mr. A. H. Everett in the North American Review, January, 1829 (vol. xxviii). Cf. other citations and references in Allibone’s Dictionary, 942, and Poole’s Index, p. 280. A portion, at least, of the manuscript of the book is in existence (Massachusetts Historical Society’s Proceedings, xx. 201). Longfellow testified to Irving’s devotion to his subject (Proc., iv. 394). See post, p. 68.