Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . futlishei Ten li ISaS hy jamK Cdrftnltr- Old Boni SIretC iv; )siilt had been addedfeel in^ he end of his remen-il- ATa mnn uiracter I heavenl(,)oked at iier iiubuuna Ij. ^b!1TV (r part of the Engraved title for Odes to Nea Tom Moore in Bermuda When, in iSo6, in Epistles, odes, and other poems,^]\Ioore pubhshed thirteen somewhat perfervid Odes to Nea,written at Bermuda,^*^ Hesters husband seems to havefelt that insult had been added ta the former injury to hisfeelings, and to the endof his life he would neverallow the works of theobnoxious bard i
Tom Moore in Bermuda, a bit of literary gossip . futlishei Ten li ISaS hy jamK Cdrftnltr- Old Boni SIretC iv; )siilt had been addedfeel in^ he end of his remen-il- ATa mnn uiracter I heavenl(,)oked at iier iiubuuna Ij. ^b!1TV (r part of the Engraved title for Odes to Nea Tom Moore in Bermuda When, in iSo6, in Epistles, odes, and other poems,^]\Ioore pubhshed thirteen somewhat perfervid Odes to Nea,written at Bermuda,^*^ Hesters husband seems to havefelt that insult had been added ta the former injury to hisfeelings, and to the endof his life he would neverallow the works of theobnoxious bard in hishouse. ]Many still livingremember j\Ir. Tucker asa man of imposing personand of fine traditional re-mark that when he gazedon Nea he thoughtof heaven, but when helooked at her husband hethought of the devil, canbe set down to mutual, andcomprehensible, Tom Moore and Nea Fnvii an cm^^raviiis: hv Riches ^^Jeffreys denunciation of this volume as immoral, in the Edinbiii-ghreview, was the cause of Moores bloodless duel with the great critic,—That ever glorious, almost fatal fray,When Littles leadless pistol met his Bow-street ^Myrmidons stood laughing by.^In ^Moores collected Works two of the Odes to Nea are omitted,one is found in another part of the volume, and others are much altered,notably the pretty Dream of antiquity. In the poem beginning If Iwere yonder wave, for four stanzas of nonsense is substituted,Nor find I in creation aught Of bright, or beautiful, or rare, 41 Tom Moore in Bermuda Hester Tucker died, still young, in 1817, having borne herhusband a large family. The following somewhat formalobituary notice appeared in the Bermuda gazette for 6 Decemberof that year: DIED In St. Georges, after a short illness, on the morning ofthe 2d instant, (aged 31 years), Mrs. HESTHER LOUISATUCKER, Wife of William Tucker, Esq.
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