Strong Coffee

Herman Melville, 1849 journal entry:

I impute the nightmare to a cup of prodigiously strong coffee...

 Herman Melville, Letter to Catherine Gansevoort Lansing (12 August 1878):

After two prodigious bumpers of coffee at the depot (from the effect of which I have hardly yet recovered)...

"Scenes Beyond the Western Border," Southern Literary Messenger 19 (March 1853): 157 

F.—"...The day should commence with the morning, and the brighter the better; not with the nightmare of a sleeper, who should have watched." 

C.—"Perhaps a nervous fit—from your strong coffee?"

References to nerves and strong coffee were deleted in revision of this passage for the 1857 book,
Scenes and Adventures in the Army.