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Sketch-Book was making a great fame for him in England. Jeffrey, in the
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Edinburgh Review, paid it a most flattering tribute, and even the savage
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Quarterly praised it. A rumor attributed it to Scott, who was always masquerading; at least, it was said, he might have revised it, and should have the credit of its exquisite style. This led to a sprightly correspondence between Lady Littleton, the daughter of Earl Spencer, one of the most accomplished and lovely women of England, and Benjamin Rush, Minister to the Court of St. James, in the course of which Mr. Rush suggested the propriety of giving out under his official seal that Irving was the author of
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Waverley.
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Geoffrey Crayon is the most fashionable fellow of the day, wrote the painter Leslie. Lord Byron, in a letter to Murray, underscored his admiration of the author, and subsequently said to an American,
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His Crayon,--I know it by heart; at least, there is not a passage that I cannot refer to immediately. And afterwards he wrote to Moore,
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His writings are my delight. There seemed to be, as some one wrote,