cited in Edgar Allan Poe's "A Chapter on Autography"
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THOMAS, Frederick W. 1811-1866 - A lawyer, minister, professor, writer and editor. His poem “The Emigrant” (1832) once was widely published in periodicals and school books. He wrote the popular novel Clinton Bradshaw (1835), as well as the less successful East and West (1836) and Howard Pinckney (1837). His numerous poems and sketches are included in John Randolph of Roanoke, and other Public Characters (1853). He met Poe in 1840 and they corresponded frequently after that. In the Poets of America, Rufus Wilmot Griswold said: "He has a nice discrimination of the peculiarities of character, which give light and shade to the surface of society, and a hearty relish for that peculiar humor which abounds in that portion of our country which undoubtedly embraces most that is original and striking in manners and unrestrained in conduct. He must rank with the first illustrators of manners in the Valley of the Mississippi.”
THOMSON, Charles West 1798-1879 - A poet and Episcopalian minister, he wrote The Limner (1822), a book of prose sketches, The Phantom Barge, and other Poems (1822) and a number of other poems, as well as articles for periodicals.
TUCKER, Judge Nathaniel Beverly 1784-1851 - A Virginian lawyer and later professor of law at William and Mary, he wrote several political novels. He published his first novel, George Balcombe, anonymously, though it received favorable reviews, Poe’s among them. His prediction of Dickens’ success may have been one of the most memorable points of his career. He corresponded with Poe when he was editor of the Southern Literary Messenger.
TUCKERMAN, Henry T. 1813-1871 - An art historian, critic and literary figure from a wealthy Massachusetts family, he was a friend of Herman Melville’s and a founding member of the Century Association, one of the oldest Fifth Avenue clubs. He wrote numerous pieces for Putnam’s Monthly, Harper’s New Monthly, Scribner’s Monthly and other periodicals.
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