An exact reproduction of a manuscript Journal kept by Washington Irving during about thirteen months of his life in Germany, Holland, France, and England. Forty and forty-one years old, Irving is seen through his own detailed record in the society of Paris, with English men of letters such as Samuel Rogers and Thomas Moore. He describes his literary projects in the period just following the successes of The Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hally and reveals his sources methods in writing his next book, Tales of a Traveller. The Journal is of peculiar value to the student of American literature in that it gives a minute account of Irving’s life during this important period.