Text: Anonymous, “[Poe's Cottage in Fordham Sold Again],” The Critic (New York, NY), July 19, 1884, p. 31, col. 2

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AGAIN Poe's Fordham cottage has been sold; this time to a toy-dealer down-town, who is, fortunately, an admirer of Poe. He proposes to preserve the cottage as ‘an historical heirloom,’ and hopes that it may be so preserved for ‘generations to come.’ I hope so too. Our historical heirlooms are disappearing far too rapidly, owing to the scarcity of such relic-loving men as Mr. P. J. Keary. This picturesque little cottage, situated at the junction of two roads, is one of the numerous places where Poe is said to have written ‘The Raven.’ There is nothing about the place, one would think, to have suggested any such melancholy train of thought as that which runs through this ‘poker-ish’ poem, though it is certain that he wrote ‘Ulalume’ there, which is much more weird and ghostly than the more famous poem.