The Alhambra (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Alhambra Washington irving was born in New York, April 3, 1783, and died at Sunnyside, his country home near Tarrytown, N. Y., N CV. 28, These dates are easily remembered if we. Bear in mind that his life lies, roughly speaking, between the close of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War. Although of no great significance, it is interesting to know that the Irvings traced their ancestry back to one who was Robert Bruce's armor-bearer. Irving's father was born in one of the Orkney Islands. When a young man he went to sea and after a little became a minor officer on a British packet sailing between Falmouth and New York. At Falmouth he met and married Sarah Sanders, and soon after, still a young man, he left the sea and became a merchant in New York. He was a good man, strictly honest, a stern Presbyterian. Mrs. Irving was a warm-hearted woman of fine nature and good intellect. One gains the impression that the children respected their father and loved their mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.