Excerpt from Legends of the Alhambra

"The Alliambra" was published in Philadelphia, in 1832, in one of the most fortunate years in Irving's life. He had returned from his second absence in Europe, which had extended to seventeen years, to find himself welcomed with an affection that surprised and touched him deeply. At a dinner given in his honor in the old City Hotel in New York Chancellor Kent, who presided, addressed him as our illustrious guest, thrice welcome to his native land; and Charles King, president of Columbia College, was struck by the spontaneity of both the homage and the hilarity of the festivity.

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