Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Tom Moore in Virginia. [ARTICLE]

Tom Moore in Virginia.

A correspondent who has been rambling through Eastern Virginia recalls a description given by an old lady at Norfolk of Tom Moore, the po#t, who passed some time in his amorous youth in a quaint old .mansion near Norfolk and found nothing there except the ladies to please him. “I was to dinner in Richmond,” said" the old lady, as she took a pinch of snuff, “and at the other end of the table sat a littie red-beaded Irishman named Moore. We didn’t exactly know how he got there, for most of us had never heard of him, and he didn’t look the gentleman. But after a while he got to talking so comically and delightfully that we roared with laughing. Then in the drawing-room he went to the piano and sang some of his own songs, and we found out that he was Tom Moore. But he did not look Id the least like a poet "