A Pilgrimage (1839);[3] Thoughts on the Poets (1846); two volumes of verse, Poems (1851) and A Sheaf of Verse Bound for the Fair (1864); Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer: Found among his Papers (1853); Essays, Biographical and Critical: or, Studies of Character (1857); The Criterion; Or the Test of Talk About Familiar Things.

Articles that Tuckerman wrote for The Knickerbocker magazine include Love in a Lazzaret (1838), a vignette from his travels in Italy, New York Artists (1856), Something About Wine (1858), Newport Out of Season (1858), Italia Libera (1861), Paris: And Life There (1861), Obituary of John W. Francis, M.D., LL.D.

He read and spoke Italian [and] made extended visits to Italy in 1833-34 and 1837-38...."[4] Tuckerman was a close friend of Herman Melville's[5] and was prominent in the literary life of New York City after 1845.

Vecchi did so and also enclosed his own letter suggesting that the United States invite Garibaldi to aid the Union cause.

The suggestion reached President Abraham Lincoln, the offer was made, but no agreement was reached because Garibaldi demanded the power to free the slaves, which Lincoln was not ready to do in 1861, and because, as the result of a misunderstanding, Garibaldi thought that he was being offered the supreme command of the Union army.