JAMES KIRKE PAULDING (2 August 1778-6 April 1860), who was born in Great Nine Partners, Putnam County, New York, and died in Hyde Park, New York, is remembered today for his collaboration with Washing...
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"A fashionable book is apt to be as dull as a fashionable party," James Kirke Paulding wrote in 1823, "simply because neither of them have any approximation to nature." This declaration in Paulding's ...
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James Kirke Paulding, born in Great Nine Partners, New York, to William and Catherine Ogden Paulding, took great pride in his Dutch ancestry; and the English subjection of the Dutch was partial cause ...
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James Kirke Paulding is best remembered today as a collaborator with the youthful Washington Irving in the Salmagundi papers, collected as Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Lang...
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