He accomplished little literary work of importance, and when the winter of 1847 came on the family was in great destitution. " Mrs. Gove, hearing of this, visited the family, and found the dying wife with only sheets and a coverlet on the bed, wrapped in her husband's coat. She appealed to Mrs. Maria Louise Shaw, who immediately relieved the necessities of the family and raised a subscription of 800." Shortly afterward the plain facts were published in the New York newspapers, and further relief was forthcoming. The poor little lady died on the 30th of January, 1817, and was buried in the churchyard of the old Fordham Dutch Church. There her bones rested until 1878, when they were disinterred by Mr. William Fearing (Jill, for the purpose of depositing them beside Poe's remains in Baltimore. The Fordham cottage continued to be Poe's home for the brief PAULDING. remainder of his life. Mrs. Clemm remained with him, and took loving motherly care of him. His literary ductions assignable to the period of his Fordham abode are mostly of the hack variety, although interspersed among them are such gems as " Annabel Lee," " The Pells," the " Cask of Amontillado," the " Domain of Arnheim," and "Lander's Cottage." Also "Eureka" and " Ulalume " were written at Fordham. lie died at Baltimore on the 7th of October, pr< 1819, aged thirty-eight. The Poe Cottage at Fordham is still preserved. Originally and until a quite recent period a plot of ground, containing perhaps a quarter of an acre, was attached to it. The writer of this History vividly recalls a visit made to the spot fifteen years ago, when the