Literary New York . over to stranger hands, still lingermemories of Paulding and Halleck,Bancroft and Drake, and a host ofothers. It was while working on Astoriathat Irving began the building ofWolferts Roost, theVan Tassel houseof the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, onthat delightful spot on the Hudson Literary New York which in the first days of Irvingsresidence there was called after time the name was changedto Irvington, in his honor, and Wol-ft:rts Roost, in honor of the gloriouscountry, became Sunnyside. It isSunnyside to this day, altered by ad-ditions made in the intervening years,
Literary New York . over to stranger hands, still lingermemories of Paulding and Halleck,Bancroft and Drake, and a host ofothers. It was while working on Astoriathat Irving began the building ofWolferts Roost, theVan Tassel houseof the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, onthat delightful spot on the Hudson Literary New York which in the first days of Irvingsresidence there was called after time the name was changedto Irvington, in his honor, and Wol-ft:rts Roost, in honor of the gloriouscountry, became Sunnyside. It isSunnyside to this day, altered by ad-ditions made in the intervening years,but still the house of Irving ; and theivy clinging to its walls has sprungfrom a root taken from the ruins ofScotts fair Melrose and plantedwhere it now grows by the friendlyhand of Jane Ren wick. On the corner of SeventeenthStreet and Irving Place (a thorough-fare to which his memory gave aname), late inlife, Irvinglived wasonce thehome of JohnT. Irving, a Where Jry/ng ?f#ek - /fret, and /rr»y Pteee. The City that Irving Knew nephew of the author. It is a sturdyhouse still, and looks as youthful as itsneighbors that were built many a dayafter it. Then it stood quite alone ina stretch of country. F rom the win-dows of the large room on theground floor, Irving could see thewaters of the East River. In thisroom he wrote portions of OtherGoldsmith, parts, too, of the Life ofMahomet, and arranged the notes ofwhat was to be his last book — theLife of Washington. But his real home was Sunny side,and there, in the year 1859, when hewas seventy-six years old, he died. Chapter VI With Paulding, Drake, andHalleck IN the summer of 1797, a tall, well-built lad with a face showing justa suggestion of melancholy, landedfrom the weekly market sloop andwalked along the streets of NewYork for the first time. He was acountry boy, well versed in trees andbrooks and used to pathless hills andrough country roads, and his first im-pression of New York was that thedwellers there were
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