Excerpt from Early Poets of Vermont Read at Brattleboro, Oct; 18, 1860: Before the Vermont Historical Society

Extensive as was the assortment Of literary wares Offered in this unique advertisement, it was hardly more extensive than the variety of articles which Tyler actually produced. His mind was rich and fertile and his facility in composition truly remarkable. Prose in every style and on all possible subjects and verse in all sorts of metres flowed almost spontaneous from his rapid pen. His knowledge was at instant command, and his wit was absolutely impromptu. He was always ready not only to furnish all that was re quired for the department assigned to him, but to supply the lack of service on the part of other contributors. This lack was not infrequently occasioned by the excessive con Viviality, to use no stronger expression, of the writers for the Museum, who were accustomed to meet often at the Village tavern, and with cards, wine, and jollity spend the night together. Dennie, who was very dilatory in his habits of composition, sometimes found himself disabled from writing just at the time when he had most need to be in full pos session of his faculties. Tyler was an unfailing helper at such times. Buckingham, formerly the veteran editor of the Boston Courier, was an apprentice in the Museum office at this time, and mentions that on one occasion, when Den nie, who was contributing a series Of lay sermons, left one of them in an unfinished state, Tyler took it up, wrote a conclusion to it, and dispatched it to the printer. Dennie did not see the sermon till after it had gone to press, but it proved to be one Of the very best sermons in the series. In fact, Tyler might have answered for the model from whom Sir Francis H. Doyle drew his picture Of the editor.

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