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en-wikipedia-org-5266		Washington Irving - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9545	1180	73	Irving was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and he encouraged other American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. He was also admired by some British writers, including Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Francis Jeffrey and Walter Scott. Irving traveled regularly to Mount Vernon and Washington, D.C. for his research, and struck up friendships with Presidents Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce.[88] He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855.[90] He was hired as an executor of John Jacob Astor's estate in 1848 and appointed by Astor's will as first chairman of the Astor Library, a forerunner to the New York Public Library.[91]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5266.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5266.txt