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1829. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada.
1830. The Royal Society of Literature bestowed upon him one of the two fifty-guinea gold medals, awarded annually.
1831. The University of Oxford conferred on him the degree of LL. D.
1831. Voyages of the Companions of Columbus.
1832. Returned to New York after seventeen years' absence. Public dinner in New York to "our illustrious guest, thrice welcome to his native land."
1832. The Alhambra. Irving lived in the old Moorish palace between two and three months "in a kind of Oriental dream," he says. Many of his letters written at the time are dated, "Alhambra, Granada."
1834. Travelled in the West, in company with commissioners appointed by the United States Government to treat with the Indians.
1835. A Tour on the Prairies. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (Crayon Miscellany).
1835. Legends of the Conquest of Spain (Crayon Miscellany). Included in Spanish Papers, edited by Pierre M. Irving, after the author's death.
1835. Purchased a tract of land on the Hudson, on which was a small Dutch cottage, the Van Tassel house of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, afterwards known as Wolfert's Roost, and rechristened Sunnyside. The railroad station near it is now called Irvington, some twenty-five miles from New York.
1836. Astoria: an account of John Jacob Astor's settlement on the Columbia River, scenes beyond the Rocky Mountains, the fur trade, etc.
1837. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
1842–46. Minister of Spain. Notified of his appointment by Daniel Webster.
1849. Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography.
1850. Mahomet and his Successors.
1855. Wolfert's Roost.
1855–59. The Life of George Washington (five volumes).
1859. November 28, Irving died at Sunnyside.