[Knickerbocker’s History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving]@TWC D-Link bookKnickerbocker’s History of New York, Complete INTRODUCTION 11/33
Price three dollars. Containing an account of its discovery and settlement, with its internal policies, manners, customs, wars, &c.
&c., under the Dutch government, furnishing many curious and interesting particulars never before published, and which are gathered from various manuscript and other authenticated sources, the whole being interspersed with philosophical speculations and moral precepts. This work was found in the chamber of Mr.Diedrich Knickerbocker, the old gentleman whose sudden and mysterious disappearance has been noticed.
It is published in order to discharge certain debts he has left behind. * * * * * _From the "American Citizen" December_ 6, 1809. Is this day published, By INSKEEP and BRADFORD, No.
128, Broadway, A History of New York, &c.
&c. (Containing same as above.) ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR It was some time, if I recollect right, in the early part of the fall of 1808, that a stranger applied for lodgings at the Independent Columbian Hotel in Mulberry Street, of which I am landlord.
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