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. At the request of the committee of arrangements the Misses Irving opened " Sunnyside " to the public, and for several days persons from all parts of the country availed themselves of the opportunity to visit" Woolfert's Roost," which remained as it was at Mr. Irving's death. A memorial volume containing an account of the commemoration, with the addresses and poem, was afterwards published by the Irving Association. It is embellished by fine steel portraits of Irving and Matilda Hoflinan and by views of" Sunnyside," Chri.st Church, the old mill in Sleepy Hollow and "Woolfert's Roost."

Among the literati of Westchester County the name of Henry B. Dawson suggests itself, at once, as among the most prominent of those identified with the work of historical research in America. Although not a native of the county, he has been so completely a part of its social and literary life for more than a generation, that he may justly be regarded as one of its representative men.

Henry Barton Dawson wa.sborn atGosberton,in Lincolnshire, about ten miles southwest of Boston, England, on Friday, June S, 1821. His father, Al>raham Dawson, was born in July, 1795, at Wisbeach, in the neighboring county of Cambridge, where his grandfather, originally of LincoliLshire, was then residing. His father'.>5 mother, a Miss Culy, belonged to a family of French Huguenots, who lived on a farm called Guyhirn, near Wisbeach.