Year: 1875

husband 20 come home In the meantime the house
was attacked by burglars In alarm she rushed up
10 the apartment of her visitor for assistance
Poe rallied promptly az the call ana rushing out the
stairway. stationed himself at window overlooking a
low sloplng roof by which II thought the burglars
would ascend. The dogs however proved more than .
match for them and they took 10 flight after being
discovered; but Poe was disappointed ne was enthu.
siastic for the attack and armed with poker and
old sword resolved 10 meet the foe with stern re-
sstance He accustomed 70 relate this adventure
with good deal OF relish Poe, wife and mother-ln-
law deyotedly attached They lived together in
the one room up stairs during the day. Az night the
mother law retired 70 a small chamber down stairs
Mrs GLENN accustomed 70 address him affection
atey 'Edde,' the wife as Darling, and be called
the latter tDiddyn Mrs Poe of delicate build and
complexion she burst blood vessel al one time but
while able 70 walk about Il was always necessary
To carry her up stairs. To Poe this was
labor Of love They had no Visitors and
thy took their meals all alone in their room. HIS
landlady remembers Poe shy, solitary taciturn
person, fond Of rambling alone through the woods or
OF sitting on fayorte stump Of tree down near the
bank Of the Hudson River. There she has often OBJ
served him gestcuatiug wildly and loudly sohloquz-
ing she concluded he eccentric, but yet very
quiet and gentlemanly in his manners. He was pale
ana delcately featured, and wore small mustache,
which he had habit Of nervously twirng.


THR ROOM RAVEN


The room he occupied had two windows in 'front.' fac
ing the river and two al the back, facing the woods
When not seated by the rivers edge he would place
himself al OF the front windows and with his wife
by his side, watch for hours the dying goros Of the
summer evening skies At this time he contribut
ing TO several magazines but the outlook Of his for
- RSsSAoAS
ford to pay for his board, but for little else.
Yet he worked hard, and the floor Of his only
chamber constantly Uttered with papers and books
Here was he slowly brought forth the finished draft
OF 'rhe Raven The room is little altered since the
time Poe occupied IT, ~ has wooden mantelpece,
painted black and most elahoratey carved Poe's name
may be found cut in tine letters side OF it. His
writing table stood by Of the front windows and
when seated before il he could look down the
rolling Hudson aud at the dark outline of the
Palisades. The landscape between the house and the
river was most picturesque in those days The woods
nd linn had ~ faf
been tortured into straight lines Of streets IL was
suitable dwelling for poet, and though not far from
the city's busy hum the sense OF solitude and remote
ness was as great as II II were In the heart Of the
Rocky Mountains. Between writing in his room and
sitting by the river Poe spent most of the summer and
autumn or 1914 In the winter OF that year he finished
'The Raven, " and in the following summer returned
10 Mrs Brennan's again. His second stay
in Boomngdale brief After two months of the
early summer ne went back TO New York and the only
thing his former andady recolects hearing Of him
subsequently was an escapado OF the kind which
so unhappy characteristic of his life. While in
Bloomlngdale, however he carried himself with
empary correctness. The chamber where Poe
posed his greatest poem not the the fancy
lures up in the reading silk purple curtains, bust
of Paas and cushioned OF velvet violet lining
with the lampligRt gloatng oorn would look out OF
place in the dngy room with the low ceiling where
Poe imagined his Raven There for
the pahd bust OF Palasn above the chamber door,
and silk purple curtains the wretched little windows
would be entirely Inappropriate.


CLOSING YEARS


In January, lS46 the Broddhody Journal ceased to





clcs for the Lddy's Book Philadelphia magazine One
of them, ''rhe Murders of the Rue Morgue - was in
Poe's most sensational vein. His wife, Virginia died
in January, 1S4s, and her inferred in a
cemetery at Fordham. In the year he brought
out work called Eureka: Prose Poem He also
resumed his connection with the Southern Literary
Messenger In lS49 that wonderful piece OF verbal mel
ody, THE Bells, appeared in Sdrtain's Magazine
When he FIRST sent 1t TO the editor IL consisted of only
eighteen ncs few months later he furnished another
copy, altered and enlarged and finally he the poem
as IT is now printed. The stanzas, For Annen and
"Annabcl Lee, afterward published in the hes
senger. Going to Richmond in the summer OF this
year he fell IN with boon companions,
and his health suffered much. Finally he
reached Richmond, renewed acquaintance with a lady
he had known in his youth, and became engaged
TO her. Hc had two things to do before they
ricd One was to so TO Philadelphia and write pre-
face for volume of poetry; the other to 90 to
Fordham and fetch Mrs. GLENN TO the wedding. He
started from Richmond October 3, 1S49 reached Balti-
safely, but there he relapsed into his old habits
In the course Of very brief stay Nd less than week
alter he had bid his intended goodby for temporary
separation he was lying cold in death in Baltimore
hospital, the doctor Of which at the time gave the
thrilling particulars Of his death in yesterdays HERALD
Poe buried in the cemetery OF Westminster church.
Baltimore, and there wenty-sx years after the end
his strange, excited life, a monument was yesterday
erected over his grave.