With the best wishes for your further success, I am
Very truly, your obliged
Washington Irving.
Edward Everett wrote:
I fully concur with the opinions expressed by Mr. Irving on the subject of a collective edition of your narrative and descriptive writings. While I am not familiar with all of them, from those which I have read and from his emphatic and discriminating commendation, I am confident the series would be welcomed by a large class of readers. You have explored nooks in our scenery seldom visited, and described forms of life and manners of which the greater portion of our busy population are entirely ignorant.
Wishing you every success, I am
Very truly yours,
Edward Everett.
A selection of a few of Mr. Lanman’s chapters will give a slight idea of the variety of his book:
Legends of the Illinois—Lake Winnipeg—Fish of the Upper Mississippi—Down the St. Lawrence—The Saguenay River—The Hermit of Aroostook—The Falls of Tallulah—The Valley of Virginia—The Cheat River Country—Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers—Accomac—A Week in a Fishing Smack—A Virgina Barbecue—Esquimaux of Labrador—The Western Pioneer.