“A Literary Man in Distress” (from The New York Daily Tribune, January 14, 1856; p. 1)

A LITERARY MAN IN DISTRESS.—A Gentleman who was once rich, respectable, and possessed of friends in the Old Country, and who has been for some years a contributor to the New-York daily press, having been completely prostrated by recent failure, and the sickness of a delicate and devoted wife, is now driven, in this inclement season, to solicit AID from the Christian, charitable, and generous people of this city, which will save him and his from present suffering and STARVATION, and enable him to procure those papers and periodicals which are indispensable to the successful prosecution of his profession. Any sums left at The Tribune Office for LITERATUS will be thankfully and gratefully received.