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"They arrived late in the evening and were busied with Allston until midnight, when he became easier, and Morse and Coleridge left him for the night. "Upon repairing to the sitting-room of the hotel Morse opened Knickerbocker's 'History of New York, which he had thrown into the carriage before leaving town. Coleridge asked him what work he had. "'Oh, replied he, 'it is only an American book.
In politics and public affairs he took no part, although office was often urged upon him, as when the friends of General Jackson wished him to go as representative to Congress, or President Van Buren offered him the secretaryship of the navy, or Tammany Hall, in New York, unanimously and vociferously nominated him for mayor, an incident in the later annals of the city which transcends the most humorous touch in Knickerbocker's History.
LITERATURE IN AMERICA: POEMS AND TALES. The period which we are now considering witnessed a gratifying development of belles-lettres and historical literature in the United States. At the outset, two writers appeared who acquired a transatlantic fame. It had been preceded by Knickerbocker's History of New York and other humorous publications.
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