* The Abencerrages – Part 17 of Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra

This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

The Revolutionary War-era " American Gothic " story of the Headless Horseman, immortalized in Washington Irving's story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( published in 1820 ), marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic story-telling.

In Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.

* 1819 – Washington Irving's " Rip Van Winkle "

More recently, Washington Irving's famous 1819 story " Rip Van Winkle " tells of a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up 20 years in the future, when he has been forgotten, his wife dead, and his daughter grown up.

The forces that impelled Dickens to create a powerful, impressive, and enduring tale were the profoundly humiliating experiences of his childhood, the plight of the poor and their children during the boom decades of the 1830s and 1840s, Washington Irving's essays on Christmas published in his Sketch Book ( 1820 ) describing the traditional old English Christmas, fairy tales and nursery stories, as well as satirical essays and religious tracts.

Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, written over twenty years previously and depicting the harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities of earlier times that he had experienced while staying at Aston Hall, attracted Dickens, and the two authors shared the belief that the staging of a nostalgic English Christmas might restore a social harmony and well-being lost in the modern world.

" Washington Irving's reference to " doughnuts " in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term.

* Sleepy Hollow ( radio ), a 1998 adaptation of Washington Irving's short story

Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.

* Washington Irving's humorous essay " The Angler " comments on Walton's popularity ; the work can be found in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon available via Project Gutenberg.

The libretto is an adaptation by H. B. Farnie of Washington Irving's famous tale.

The Orkney Rangers believe this may be one source for Washington Irving's tale, because his father was an Orcadian from the island of Shapinsay and would almost certainly have known the tale.

He appears in several works of Alexandre Dumas, including The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon, not published until 2007 and in Washington Irving's short story " The Inn at Terracina ".

The Golden Legend may have been the source for retellings of the Seven Sleepers in Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in a poem by Goethe, Washington Irving's " Rip van Winkle ", H. G.

* Washington Irving's collection The Sketch Book ( 1819 ) included the story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ", which contained a figure now known as the " Headless Horseman ".

It is also frequently used as an auditory symbol of rural America, as in Washington Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, or as a plot device.

Major André's capture is mentioned in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which takes place in and around Tarrytown.

The Life by his son Henry Roscoe ( 2 vols., London, 1906 ) contains full details of Roscoe's career, and there are references to him in the Autobiographical Sketches of De Quincey, and in Washington Irving's Sketch Book.

The name is an allusion to the locale mentioned in Washington Irving's " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( which also gave its name to Sleepy Hollow, New York ).

Jefferson as the old Rip Van Winkle, 1896In 1859, Jefferson made a dramatic version of Washington Irving's story of " Rip Van Winkle " on the basis of older plays, and acted it with success in

Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820.

In the case of Washington Irving's Sketch Book, which contains " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " and " Rip Van Winkle " among others, the conceit is that the author of the book is not Irving, but a certain gentleman named Crayon.

: " Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President ( 1837 – 1841 )", Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789 – 1993 ( PDF ), Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1997: pp. 121 – 131.

In 1837 most of the area of present-day Brazos County was included in Washington County.

From January 8, 1836 to December 13, 1837, the Municipality and County of Mina consisted of parts of present day Mason, Kimble, Llano, Burnet, Williamson, Gillespie, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Travis, Caldwell, Bastrop, Lee, Gonzales, Fayette, Washington, and Lavaca counties.

In the fall of 1837, Dolley Madison returned to Washington, charging Todd with the care of the plantation.

" Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter wrote to Washington, D. C., that Beauregard, who had been his student at West Point in 1837, would guarantee that South Carolina's actions be exercised with " skill and sound judgment.

St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy, a co-educational, Episcopal college-preparatory school, was founded as St. Mary's Hall, a boarding school for girls, by George Washington Doane in 1837.

* son: Washington A. Roebling ( b. 1837, d. 1926 )

* USRC Washington ( 1833 ), was a revenue cutter launched in 1833 and sold in June 1837

* USRC Washington ( 1837 ), was a revenue cutter named after Peter G. Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837, during the seventh and eighth years of Andrew Jackson's presidency.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1839, during the first two years of Martin Van Buren's presidency.

In the mid-1830s, Brownlow anonymously wrote several articles attacking nullification for the Washington Republican and Farmer's Journal, a Jonesborough-based paper published by retired state supreme court justice Thomas Emmerson ( 1773 – 1837 ).

Coast Survey Report submitted February 18, 1871, published 1873 by the U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Reports 1837 – 1965.

Other notable treaties were Governor Hull's treaty of 1808, the Treaty of Saginaw in 1819, the two Treaties of Chicago ( 1821, 1833 ), the Carey Mission in 1828 and the Treaty of Washington in 1836 and a later treaty of January 4, 1837.

Washington County was created by the legislature of the Republic of Texas in 1836 and organized in 1837 and Washington-on-the-Brazos became the county seat.

Other notable Union alumni include: Dr. Baruch Samuel Blumberg ( 1946 ), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ; Henry Wager Halleck ( 1837 ), chief of staff for the Union Armies during the Civil War ; William F. Fox ( 1869 ) Superintendent of Forests at the Adirondack Park in New York State ; Howard Simons ( 1951 ), managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era ; Nikki Stone ( 1995 ), winner of a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics for aerial skiing ; and Armand V. Feigenbaum ( 1942 ), American businessman and developer of the concept of Total Quality Management ( TQM ).

Edward Miner Gallaudet ( February 5, 1837 – September 26, 1917 ), son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, was a famous early educator of the deaf in Washington, DC.

Also in 1836 and then in 1837 he helped to draft a petition for the establishment of a territorial government, and in 1838 he journeyed east to present the petition in Washington, D. C., stopping at the Whitman Mission near Fort Walla Walla to visit Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.

He died in Washington on April 17, 1837, and was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.

After extensive researches at home and ( 1828 – 1829 ) in London and Paris, he published the Life and Writings of George Washington ( 12 vols., 1834 – 1837 ; redated 1842 ), his most important work ; and in 1839 he published separately the Life of George Washington ( abridged, 2 vols., 1842 ).

Knox College was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale.

* Washington Roebling ( 1837 – 1926 ), civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge.