strong coffee, again

Update!  First posted here last year, now re-posting to add another parallel from Melville's writings, one that explicitly links strong coffee and nerves:

"But he [Harry Bolton] could not be induced to try it over again; the fact was, his nerves could not stand it; in the course of his courtly career, he had drunk too much strong Mocha coffee and gunpowder tea, and had smoked altogether too many Havannas." --Redburn: His First Voyage

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)...

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?"

--"Scenes Beyond the Western Border" in Southern Literary Messenger 19 - March 1853, 157

References to nerves and strong coffee were deleted in revision of this passage for the 1857 book, Scenes and Adventures in the Army. In the 1857 book version, the narrator's imaginary traveling companion (formerly named "Frank") is called "Friend."