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HK.II BRIDGE— A HAUNT OF THE POET 

 The Speedway in the foreground is modern 



From a Photograph by Ceo. E. Stonebridge 



Throughout the immemorial year of 1847 that followed, 

 Mrs. Shew remained, to use Poe's phrase. " his good spirit, his 

 loyal heart, and an angel to his forlorn and darkened nature." 

 In view of the fact that our Poe celebration enjoys the 

 hospitality of the New York University, it is interesting to 

 remember that Mrs. Shew took Poe's case for diagnosis to 

 Dr. Valentine Mott, professor in the New York University 

 Medical College and one of the greatest physicians of his time. 

 Their decision was that in his best health Toe suffered from 

 lesion of one side of the brain. Night and day. sharing 

 the watch with Mrs. Clemm this devoted woman brought the 

 poet up from his prostration. Her reward was the undying 

 gratitude of the poet, and three poems addressed to her. In 

 one of these Poe numbers himself as one 



