The Boston Bard Repels the Editor Buckingham

(BOSTON SLANDER). COFFIN, R.S., the "Boston Bard". Epistle to Joseph T. Buckingham, Esq. Boston: Printed for Public Information, 1826. 1st ed. 8vo. 12 pp. Removed. $200.00

Shoemaker 24144 (two copies). A pungent response from the "Boston Bard," to the famed Boston editor Joseph T. Buckingham, who in the past had praised Coffin's verse, but now attacked attempts made to obtain charitable contributions for his welfare, arguing that as a drunkard Coffin was undeserving. Buckingham often indulged himself in controversy, including one with Poe's father over the acting abilities of Mrs. Poe. (See McCoy B 613 for another legal controversy). Coffin, who would die within the year, here in this rare reply delivers several nice thrusts, including a poem "The Slanderer," "inscribed without permission, to Joseph T. Buckingham, whose detestation of the vice of slander is said to have become proverbial."