THE BRONX SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



Mr. Stoughton said : 



" One hundred years ago was born the man whose eminence 

 in letters, as poet, story teller and critic, we celebrate today. 



It is singularly fitting that a memorial of him should face 

 the cottage, the only place which, in his maturity, he could 

 call home; which he held till his death, and through whose 

 'lowly portal' he came and went during the wasting away 

 of his adored Virginia and his own heroic struggle with fate, 

 and in which, often cold and hungry, always burdened in 

 mind, he calmly wrote his later masterpieces. 



Others will today render homage to his genius, and appreci- 

 ation of his work as man of letters; it is my privilege to stand 

 for a brief moment as the mouthpiece of those who delight 

 to honor the former tenant of this cottage, whose spirit haunts 

 this region, and whose name this bark bears, offering to the 

 City of New York this bronze, the sympathetic work of the 

 artist, Edmoncl T. Ouinn. 



On behalf of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences, and 



