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Salmagundi, Irving, in connection with his brother Peter, projected the work that was to make him famous. At first nothing more was intended than a satire upon the
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Picture of New York, by Dr. Samuel Mitchell, just then published. It was begun as a mere burlesque upon pedantry and erudition, and was well advanced, when Peter was called by his business to Europe, and its completion was fortunately left to Washington. In his mind the idea expanded into a different conception. He condensed the mass of affected learning, which was their joint work, into five introductory chapters,--subsequently he said it would have been improved if it had been reduced to one, and it seems to me it would have been better if that one had been thrown away, --and finished
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A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker,
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Washington, said Mr. Hoffman, picking it up,