Word: abbotsford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irving had been up to Abbotsford to see Scott; he had gamboled in Paris with Thomas Moore; the fame which he had won by amusing himself (with his Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was at its height. In Madrid he buckled down to his first job of scholarly writing, a life of Columbus. Young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, passing through, noted that Irving was at his desk every morning at six; that in society he "said very pleasant agreeable things in a husky, weak, peculiar voice." He liked everybody, but he especially liked...