There are two good-sized rooms, a bed-room and a kitchen on the lower floor. In the front room Virginia, Poe's invalid wife, lay through her sickness, and died. On the upper floor there are three rooms, one of them quite large. The old-fashioned chimney passes through it, aftbrding an old-time fireplace, which in winter, when filled with crackling wood, would be a cheerful place. It was a favorite room with the poet, and here he wrote " Ulalume " and " Eureka."

"Poe moved to Fordham from Amity Street. Washington Square was then the centre of the fine

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residences of the city, and his huiise in Amity Street, into which he moved when the " Raven ' had brought him a reputation, was only a short distance from tlie square. He had been engaged on the Evening Mirror at a salary of ten dollars a week, and in a suit against the paper for libel, after resigning his position, he secured a verdict and obtained several hundred dollars. With this money he secured the Fordham cottage, at a rental of one hundred dollars a year, furnished it and removed there with his wife and her mother, Mrs. Clemm, who remained there until Poe's death in 1849. The grounds, comprising about two acres, are as interesting as the house, and have associations reaching back to Revolutionary times, when this neighborhood was a part of the ' neutral ground ' and the field of Cooper's ' Spy.' The lawn slopes into a grassy hollow. A massive ledge of blue-