" By his will, says the same account, " which made ample provision to continue the home at 'Sunnyside' to the brother and nieces bj' whom Mr. Irving had been surrounded, he left his manuscripts to his nephew, Pierre M. Irving, who had been his assistant in some of his more important labors of research, as his literary executor." Mr. Irving afterwards published a memoir of his distinguished uncle. Mr. George P. Putnam, the New York publisher, issued a uniform edition of Washington Irving's works, in 1847, which yielded Mr. Irving and his rejiresentatives more than §150,000.

On the 3d of April, 1883, the centennial anniversary of Irving's birth was commemorated at Tarrytown by " The Washington Irving Association," which had been formed on the 19th of March for t'nc pur()ose of appropriately observing the anniversary. The ex-

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ercises took place on the evening of April 3d, at the Second Reformed Church. Judge Noah Davis presided, and from New York, Brooklyn and many adjacent points many came to swell the assemblage. The church wasbeautifully decorated with flowers and evergreens. As a prelude to the addresses, Miss Hawes played the overture from the opera of " Rij) Van Winkle" on the organ. Addresses were delivered by Judge Davis, Mr. James Wood, president of the Westchester County Historical Society ; Rev. James Selden Spencer, Donald G. Mitchell, Charles Dudley Warner and Professor William C. Wilkinson. A poem by Mr. Stephen H. Thayer, of Tarrytown, was read by Rev. Washington Choate. Letters of regret from a number of invited guests were also read, among them being responses from Governor Cleveland, John G. Whittier, George William Curtis, John Jay and President Porter, of Yale. Miss Sears sang " The Lost Chord,'" and Professor T. S. Doolittle, D.D., jironounced the benediction.