Autograph Manuscript titled Babylon, an unused fragment intended for Mahomet and His Successors, enclosed in an ALS to Rev. Frederick G. Clark
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8vo. Old folds, fine. Item #305842 A manuscript leaf of material Irving meant to––but did not––use for his Mahomet and His Successors 1850 . Headed Babylon, and citing the German historian Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, it reads in part: In the earliest records of the human race, says the learned Heeren, the name of Babylon appears as the primeval seat of political society and the cradle of civilization; and this name
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