A letter from Merwin to Irving was endorsed in Irving's handwriting: "From Jesse Merwin, the original of Ichabod Crane." Life and Letters of Washington Irving （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, New York: G.P. Putnam and Son, 1869, vol. 3, pp. 185–186.
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A letter from Merwin to Irving was endorsed in Irving's handwriting: "From Jesse Merwin, the original of Ichabod Crane." Life and Letters of Washington Irving （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, New York: G.P. Putnam and Son, 1869, vol. 3, pp. 185–186.
