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Imagining Astoria in the 1800s
American Fur Trading Co. for his uncle and
was paid some of John Jacob Astor’s money.
“It just seemed like some fun to have
Pierre’s ‘All Hallow’s Eve’ vision become
the basis for ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hol-
low,’” McAuley said.
Fiction contest continues
By ALYSSA EVANS
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR
This week marks the second entry in
Coast Weekend’s fi ction writing contest. To
participate, send in a short story, no longer
than 250 words, to aevans@dailyastorian.
com. Entries can be continuations of pub-
lished prompts or new works of fi ction .
The following is Astoria poet Mary Lou
McAuley’s story, “How ‘The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow’ came to be written.”
“This was part of some research I was
doing for a RiverSea Gallery show called
‘Imagined Astoria,’” McAuley said. “I was
working at the library at the time.”
McAuley knew that Washington Irving
hadn’t visited Astoria. A fter some research
she located his nephew, who researched the
”How ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’
came to be written”
A discovery in the basement of the Astoria
Library verifi es how “The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow” by Washington Irving really came
to be written.
Author and friend of John Jacob Astor,
Washington Irving was commissioned to
write about the American Fur Trading Co.
Irving agreed to use Astor’s resources from
the Columbia Basin outposts. But, Irving
insisted on producing his own book rather
than the public relations book that Astor
wanted. So he used Astor’s money and hired
his nephew, timid and bookish Pierre Munro
Irving.
The pages appear to be a rough draft of
lows Eve. And just in my bunk in fever’s
Arms in a fainting swoon I heard shod feet
upon the warf, like a mighty horse,the sails
howling like Death’s own Cape, I looked,
so Startled, Uncle, I saw a one legged sailor
holding aloft a glowing head, HIS HEAD,
which he hurled at my cabin wondow. I
quake begging to forget the ghostly image,
the thuds of his wooden Leg, so like hoof-
beats. God speed me to leave this haunted
shoreline, there is goulish Mischief here, I
fear. Your Nephew Pierre.”
Intended as a footnote in the published
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” 1820, it was
stricken through by Washington Irving’s own
hand: “OMIT.”
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A view of the
Astoria Bridge.
the last pages of his research on Astoria.
Most of the text is obscured due to exposure
and age. But the most intriguing words come
from the personal comments as the young
Pierre was recovering from a fever before
setting sail for San Francisco and thus home
to the Hudson Valley:
IRVING, Pierre Munrosee IRVING,
Washington fragment/ correspondence to
Washington Irving/1819/Fotr Astoria, Ore-
gon Country/Verity Crum/volunteer/Oct.31,
1969.
“Many days of delirium, uNcle, the fever
bends my body and mind. I hear many
sounds at once and the rigging shrieks and
moans. Doktor allowd brandy this All Hal-
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