Bryant And His Friends Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Writers
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They are, I presume, the penalties of popu larity. In the grand old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, on the heights of Granada, our guide in 1883, known as " The Gipsy King, " who pretended to remember Irving, and may possibly have done so, showed us the vacant place where some villain had pried out the piece of marble mosaic work on which the gifted author had written his name on the occasion of his last visit. The other instance is the shameful mutilation of the simple marble slab which marks ...his grave in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. When I last saw it, the stone was much injured, and I was informed . [that it was the second one placed there, the first having been i entirely destroyed by relir-hunters ! 178 BRYANT AND HIS FRIENDS. occurred at Tarrytovvn on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, at which pleasant occa sion Chief Justice Davis of New York presided, and an oration full of feeling and sympathy was delivered by one of Geoffrey Crayon s gifted disciples, Donald G. Mitchell.
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