Text: Hopper Striker Mott, “Poe and Mount Tom,” New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 332, July 28, 1922, p. 26, col. 5

[page 26, col. 5, continued:]

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: My memory of Mount Tom harks back some sixty years. It certainly was not as conspicuous in Poe's time as now, for it was hidden by a dense growth of forest trees and only when these were removed did its outline appear.

Poe's connection with it is indefinite. He is reputed to have wandered along the river, resting at certain spots which appealed to his poetic nature. It is doubtful if he would select an elevation which in his time was hardly noticeable from the surrounding terrain.

As to the Harsen house, had J. T. Lee given closer attention to “The New York of Yesterday” he would have been enlightened as to its location. It stood a short distance west of the present Amsterdam avenue, between Seventieth and Seventy-first streets, as stated on page 84. The eastern section of the Sherman Square Hotel nearly occupies its site.

HOPPER STRIKER MOTT.

NEWBURTPORT, Mass., July 26.