Text: Anonymous, “[Comment on the Poe's at Fordham],” New York Times (New York, NY), vol. XXXIII, whole no. 10,259, July 22, 1884, p. 4, col. 5

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Some fanciful discoverer connected with a morning newspaper has ascertained that POE wrote “The Raven” in the little cottage in Fordham where the poet lived during his connection with Willis and the Home Journal. This will be news to POE'S biographers as well as the rest of the world. The Raven,” by the request of its author, was republished in the Home Journal during POE'S residence in Fordham, from the magazine in which it originally appeared three years previously. It was written in 1844, while the poet was boarding with Mrs. MARY A. BRENNAN, in Eighty-fourth-street, near the Bloomingdale road, now St. Nicholas-avenue. Nevertheless, a reporter of the journal in question was shown the very chair in the Fordham cottage in which POE sat when he penned the gloomy phantasy which first made him famous. The investigator also ascertained that the tree upon which the bird perched before tapping at the window and utilizing the bust of Pallas had been cut down, and be gleaned many other romantic details connecting the construction of the poem with the locale of the Fordham cottage, all of which would be highly interesting if POE'S latest and most conscientious biographer, WILLIAM F. GILL, had not proved their falsity seven years since.