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Correspondence; II. Business and Legal Papers; III. Miscellaneous and Genealogical Papers; and IV. Oversize. The material in this collection has been filed chronologically within each series. Correspondence is filed by correspondent.","This collection consists of 278 items, ca. 1829-1923, chiefly pertaining to the activities of members of the \nRives, Sears, and Rhinelanderfamilies of Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York, respectively. The papers include correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical papers, a diary, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia. The correspondence chiefly is between members of the Rives family, especially William Cabell Rives(1793-1868), Judith Page Walker Rives(1802-1882), William Cabell Rives, Jr.(1825-1889), Grace Winthrop Sears Rives (1828-), and William Cabell Rives (1850-1938), and, to a lesser extent, Sears and Rhinelander family members. Other correspondents include Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863), Edward Everett (1794-1865), Joseph Grinnell (1788-1885), William Mahone (1826-1895), Thomas Walker Page (1866-1937), Sir Lyon Playfair (1818-1898), and the Rev. Cornelius Walker (1819-1907).","Topics of interest in the correspondence include: politics; life at the University of Virginia; life in Paris, France ; travelling through Germany; William Cabell Rives, Jr.'s farm in Cobham; and the Civil War. A March 22, 1845, letter from New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Rhinelander correspondence, tells of being pulled along the Baratania Canal by slaves, and visiting the bachelor establishment on the nearby plantation. Political activities are discussed in Alexander Rives' December 3, 1834, letter to William Cabell Rives pertaining to the latter's senatorial race and the principle of instruction, and in  William Cabell Rives' letters to his wife, Judith, concerning politics in Washington during 1844.","In a letter dated January 17, 1846, Lewis Minor Coleman writes William Cabell Rives, Jr., from the University of Virginia about the Jefferson Society and living on the East Range, then known as \"Rowdy Row.\" Letters written to William Cabell Rives and William Cabell Rives, Jr., 1863-1868, are often concerned with the Civil War and its effects, especially on Southerners; and, in a letter written to his wife, Grace, on June 19, 1865, William Cabell Rives, Jr., refers to the \"destruction of slavery.\"","In her letters, 1851-1852, to Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, Judith Page Walker Rives reveals much about Paris, France, during the 1851 coup d'etat and establishment of the Second Empire under Louis Napoleon. Also, during 1851, William Cabell Rives, Jr., writes his mother while travelling in Germany, describing several cities.","Various aspects of life in Cobham, Virginia, are revealed in N. B. Layne's 1853 letters to William Cabell Rives, Jr., concerning the management of the latter's estate, and in Judith Page Walker Rives' December 30, 1855, letter to Grace Winthrop Sears Rives describing the family's old fashioned Christmas party, as well as in letters of other members of the Rives family written from their home in Cobham. Correspondence between  E. S. McSparran and William Cabell Rives, Jr., during 1854-1855 concern alterations in the plan of the latter's Albemarle County house, Cobham Park, and includes estimates and contracts.","Items of interest include a diary, 1860-1909, kept by Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, with many references to members of the Amory, Grant, Page, Rhinelander, Rives, and Sears families, and mentioning others, including Rev. F. K. Aglionby, William C. Dabney (1849-1894), Anne Cutler Hinckley (1813-1898), Einle George Money, Sir Lyon Playfair (1818-1898), and Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee (1843-1908). There appears to be much information useful to genealogical research. In addition, there is a letter of commendation from the French Republic, to Philip Newbold Rhinelander (1895-1918), for his service with the American Field-Hospital, accompanied by acommemorative medal presented to him.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander Families, \n         ca.\n         1829-1923"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of the Rives, Sears and Rhinelander Families, \n         ca.\n         1829-1923"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["10596"],"unitid_tesim":["10596"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Laurens H.\n         Rhinelander"],"creator_ssim":["Laurens H.\n         Rhinelander"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was made a gift to the Library by Laurens H. 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The correspondence chiefly is between members of the Rives family, especially William Cabell Rives(1793-1868), Judith Page Walker Rives(1802-1882), William Cabell Rives, Jr.(1825-1889), Grace Winthrop Sears Rives (1828-), and William Cabell Rives (1850-1938), and, to a lesser extent, Sears and Rhinelander family members. Other correspondents include Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863), Edward Everett (1794-1865), Joseph Grinnell (1788-1885), William Mahone (1826-1895), Thomas Walker Page (1866-1937), Sir Lyon Playfair (1818-1898), and the Rev. Cornelius Walker (1819-1907).\n\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\nTopics of interest in the correspondence include: politics; life at the University of Virginia; life in Paris, France ; travelling through Germany; William Cabell Rives, Jr.'s farm in Cobham; and the Civil War. A March 22, 1845, letter from New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Rhinelander correspondence, tells of being pulled along the Baratania Canal by slaves, and visiting the bachelor establishment on the nearby plantation. 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Other correspondents include Lewis Minor Coleman (1827-1863), Edward Everett (1794-1865), Joseph Grinnell (1788-1885), William Mahone (1826-1895), Thomas Walker Page (1866-1937), Sir Lyon Playfair (1818-1898), and the Rev. Cornelius Walker (1819-1907).","Topics of interest in the correspondence include: politics; life at the University of Virginia; life in Paris, France ; travelling through Germany; William Cabell Rives, Jr.'s farm in Cobham; and the Civil War. A March 22, 1845, letter from New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Rhinelander correspondence, tells of being pulled along the Baratania Canal by slaves, and visiting the bachelor establishment on the nearby plantation. Political activities are discussed in Alexander Rives' December 3, 1834, letter to William Cabell Rives pertaining to the latter's senatorial race and the principle of instruction, and in  William Cabell Rives' letters to his wife, Judith, concerning politics in Washington during 1844.","In a letter dated January 17, 1846, Lewis Minor Coleman writes William Cabell Rives, Jr., from the University of Virginia about the Jefferson Society and living on the East Range, then known as \"Rowdy Row.\" Letters written to William Cabell Rives and William Cabell Rives, Jr., 1863-1868, are often concerned with the Civil War and its effects, especially on Southerners; and, in a letter written to his wife, Grace, on June 19, 1865, William Cabell Rives, Jr., refers to the \"destruction of slavery.\"","In her letters, 1851-1852, to Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, Judith Page Walker Rives reveals much about Paris, France, during the 1851 coup d'etat and establishment of the Second Empire under Louis Napoleon. Also, during 1851, William Cabell Rives, Jr., writes his mother while travelling in Germany, describing several cities.","Various aspects of life in Cobham, Virginia, are revealed in N. B. Layne's 1853 letters to William Cabell Rives, Jr., concerning the management of the latter's estate, and in Judith Page Walker Rives' December 30, 1855, letter to Grace Winthrop Sears Rives describing the family's old fashioned Christmas party, as well as in letters of other members of the Rives family written from their home in Cobham. Correspondence between  E. S. McSparran and William Cabell Rives, Jr., during 1854-1855 concern alterations in the plan of the latter's Albemarle County house, Cobham Park, and includes estimates and contracts.","Items of interest include a diary, 1860-1909, kept by Grace Winthrop Sears Rives, with many references to members of the Amory, Grant, Page, Rhinelander, Rives, and Sears families, and mentioning others, including Rev. F. K. Aglionby, William C. 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Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.","A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"collection_ssim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["38-135"],"unitid_tesim":["38-135"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Laura Ingram"],"creator_ssim":["Laura Ingram"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was purchased by the Library in\n            1922."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of ca. 1000\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n          JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eby \n          John Carl Miller \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis is the curious story of how it happened.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eInterest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n        \u003cblockquote\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003c/blockquote\u003e\n      \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePrivate tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOn Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBy 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSuch, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the two bound volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eShortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWord of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eStill another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLetters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOne can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eA number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS","by \n          John Carl Miller","When \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSecond Edition by John E. Reilly\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of John Carl Miller\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship.\u003c/title\u003e Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia.\u003c/title\u003e This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBuilding Poe Biography,\u003c/title\u003e was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's Helen Remembers,\u003c/title\u003e appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eCount Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBaltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiven to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 54.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56-57.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 73-75.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 81-82\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 83-85.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 150-151.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 163-166.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 299-300.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe True Story of Edgar Allan Poe,\u003c/title\u003e p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 315.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 318.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eAutograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors,\u003c/title\u003e 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Literati of New York City.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 349-350.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 350-351.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 391-398.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 409-411.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 413-414.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 441.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWrites of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStill in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 461-462.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRedfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026amp; \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026amp; they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026amp; saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcademy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal;\u003c/title\u003e\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHistory of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCould Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePowell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe did not die drunk, as the world believes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eKey has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMorison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eResponds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAs a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026amp; amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAt Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSince receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026amp; character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOnly the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAll that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAlthough often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLocker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePeterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJudge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026amp;\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Poe family is mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGarnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eI. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 397.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEuget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRoden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopied from the Curio, January-February 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBeecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThat stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eD'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDoes Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNo picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eShe sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eModelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eForwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem has been made into a booklet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNew York Evening Mirror.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn adverse review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEditor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy signed by Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWriter furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSame as Item 560.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eClarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDespite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFunds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eP. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTwo sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMarvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAddressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProgram of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life and work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe and of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSatirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. A biographical-critical essay.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTen parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e See Item 616.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCriticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMessrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortion of an article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical sketch.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRefuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParagraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBriggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTakes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA caustic review of the 4th edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDenies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, favorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn office boy in the offices of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe edition will appear in three volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGeorge denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated heavily by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThough generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExtract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCommendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJoint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePlans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAsks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable comments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEllis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRaises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSuggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAttributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMajor \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePresentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGenerally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDefensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStriking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMinor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMenchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026amp; Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCritical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eControversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eScholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHighly laudatory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReplying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInfers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFeature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCaustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eList of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Centennial article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. On the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWas it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBurton's Gentleman's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraham's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWeekly Mirror,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e\n                  and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eDemocratic Review.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWith two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePolitely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDeclares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1053,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:32:33.870Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00220_c01_c146"}},{"id":"viu_viu00220_c01_c142","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"WILLIAM D. 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What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!"],"_nest_path_":"/components#0/components#141","timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:32:33.870Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00220","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00220","_root_":"viu_viu00220","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00220","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00220.xml","title_ssm":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"title_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"normalized_title_ssm":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"text":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915.","38-135","This collection consists of ca. 1000\n         items.","There are no restrictions.","JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS","by \n          John Carl Miller","When \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.","A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"collection_ssim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["38-135"],"unitid_tesim":["38-135"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Laura Ingram"],"creator_ssim":["Laura Ingram"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was purchased by the Library in\n            1922."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of ca. 1000\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n          JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eby \n          John Carl Miller \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis is the curious story of how it happened.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eInterest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n        \u003cblockquote\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003c/blockquote\u003e\n      \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePrivate tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOn Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBy 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSuch, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the two bound volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eShortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWord of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eStill another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLetters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOne can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eA number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS","by \n          John Carl Miller","When \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSecond Edition by John E. Reilly\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of John Carl Miller\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship.\u003c/title\u003e Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia.\u003c/title\u003e This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBuilding Poe Biography,\u003c/title\u003e was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's Helen Remembers,\u003c/title\u003e appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eCount Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBaltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiven to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 54.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56-57.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 73-75.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 81-82\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 83-85.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 150-151.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 163-166.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 299-300.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe True Story of Edgar Allan Poe,\u003c/title\u003e p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 315.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 318.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eAutograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors,\u003c/title\u003e 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Literati of New York City.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 349-350.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 350-351.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 391-398.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 409-411.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 413-414.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 441.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWrites of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStill in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 461-462.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRedfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026amp; \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026amp; they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026amp; saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcademy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal;\u003c/title\u003e\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHistory of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCould Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePowell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe did not die drunk, as the world believes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eKey has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMorison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eResponds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAs a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026amp; amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAt Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSince receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026amp; character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOnly the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAll that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAlthough often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLocker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePeterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJudge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026amp;\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Poe family is mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGarnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eI. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 397.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEuget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRoden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopied from the Curio, January-February 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBeecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThat stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eD'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDoes Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNo picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eShe sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eModelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eForwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem has been made into a booklet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNew York Evening Mirror.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn adverse review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEditor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy signed by Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWriter furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSame as Item 560.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eClarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDespite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFunds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eP. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTwo sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMarvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAddressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProgram of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life and work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe and of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSatirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. A biographical-critical essay.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTen parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e See Item 616.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCriticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMessrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortion of an article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical sketch.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRefuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParagraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBriggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTakes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA caustic review of the 4th edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDenies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, favorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn office boy in the offices of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe edition will appear in three volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGeorge denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated heavily by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThough generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExtract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCommendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJoint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePlans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAsks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable comments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEllis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRaises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSuggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAttributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMajor \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePresentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGenerally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDefensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStriking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMinor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMenchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026amp; Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCritical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eControversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eScholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHighly laudatory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReplying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInfers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFeature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCaustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eList of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Centennial article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. On the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWas it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBurton's Gentleman's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraham's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWeekly Mirror,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e\n                  and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eDemocratic Review.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWith two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePolitely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDeclares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1053,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:32:33.870Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00220_c01_c142"}},{"id":"viu_viu00036_c02_c28","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"William D. 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Correspondence; II. Family and Personal Papers; III. Egbert Watson Magruder Papers; IV. Miscellaneous; V. Bound Volumes; and Oversize. Folders are arranged alphabetically within each series. Oversize items are arranged chronologically. Included in the miscellaneous series are printed material and photographs.","Egbert Watson Magruder was born on October\n         25, 1868, in \n          Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Anne Evalina (Norris) Magruder . After his\n         early education in public and private schools, he entered \n          Hampden-Sydney College in 1887, and\n         received his B.A. degree in 1891. He completed courses in\n         chemistry at the \n          University of Virginia, and entered \n          Johns Hopkins University in 1892, where he\n         was assistant in the department of chemistry during his last\n         two years. Afterwards, he received an appointment to the \n          Mississippi College of Agriculture . For\n         approximately fifteen years, until his resignation in 1915, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was the Chief\n         Chemist and Pure Food Expert of the \n          State Department of Agriculture . During\n         part of this time, he was also director of the \n          Virginia Test Farm at \n          Saxe, Charlotte County . In 1915, he\n         accepted an offer to become the Chief Chemist of the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia, where his duties\n         included taking charge of all chemical laboratories, and\n         performing analytical and investigation work.","On Novermber 8, 1916, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder married the former \n          Frances Byrd Alvey of \n          Richmond, Virginia . \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was a member of the\n         Board of Visitors of \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute, \n          Blacksburg, Virginia, the \n          American Chemical Society, \n          Association of Official Agricultural\n         Chemists, \n          Virginia Academy of Science, and \n          American Society of Agronomy, as well as\n         being a member of the following clubs: \n          Virginia Chemists' Club, \n          Hampton Roads Chemists' Club (as one of\n         the organizers and first president of each), the \n          Kiwanis Club, \n          Norfolk Country Club, and the \n          Norfolk Town Club . In addition, he wrote\n         numerous articles on agricultural chemistry and agriculture,\n         including such topics as the manufacture and use of commercial\n         fertilizer, the cultivation of wheat and tobacco, and food and\n         food adulterations. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder owned a farm of ca.\n         100 acres at \n          Dry Bridge, Chesterfield County; he\n         remained with the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company until his\n         death in 1945.","Horatio \"Rashe\" Erskine Magruder was born\n         on September 8, 1846 in \n          Albemarle County, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . He was\n         educated in private country neighborhood schools before\n         entering the \n          Confederate Army at age seventeen in 1864.\n         He served in the \n          Rockbridge Artillery of Stonewall\n         Jackson's old Brigade, and took part in the battles of The \n          Wilderness and \n          Spotsylvania Courthouse. He was captured,\n         and imprisoned at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland; after a lengthy\n         illness in prison, he was exchanged, and returned to General \n          Robert E. Lee 's army in 1865 after his\n         recuperation. He was in the retreat of the \n          Confederate Army to \n          Appomattox .","After the war, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder attended the \n          University of Virginia, studying Latin,\n         Modern Languages, and Mathematics. He returned to \"Glenmore,\" the family home, where he\n         formed a partnership with his father, and eventually took over\n         management of the plantation. He was one of the most prominent\n         farmers in \n          Albemarle County . \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder married his\n         cousin, \n          Julia May Chewning, of \"Island Home,\" \n          Albemarle County, on December 12, 1894.\n         He was a member of the vestry of \n          Grace Episcopal Church in \n          Cismont, the \n          American Clan Gregor Society, and\n         president of the \n          Monticello Wine Company of \n          Charlottesville and the \n          Albemarle Mutual Fire Insurance Company .\n         He died on January 19, 1924 at \"Glenmore.\"","John Bowie Magruder was born on November\n         10, 1839, in \n          Albemarle County, the eldest son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . After\n         graduating from the \n          Albemarle Military Academy, he entered\n         the \n          University of Virginia, where he received\n         his M.A. degree in 1860. In the spring of 1861, he took a\n         special three-month military course at the \n          Virginia Military Institute in \n          Lexington, and raised a company in \n          Albemarle County known as the \n          Rivanna Guards . As captain, he took the\n         company to \n          Richmond in June 1861 where they were\n         mustered in with the \n          57th Regiment under \n          Lewis A. Armistead . He was promoted to\n         Colonel after the Battle of \n          Fredericksburg on December 22, 1862. He\n         was wounded during Pickett's Charge in the battle of \n          Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and carried to a\n         hospital near the battlefield where he died on July 5th.","This collection consists of ca. 2988 items (10 Hollinger\n         boxes and oversize items), ca. 1787-1945, pertaining chiefly\n         to the career of \n          Egbert Watson Magruder as an agricultural\n         chemist for the \n          Department of Agriculture of Virginia and,\n         later, for the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, reports, articles and speeches, laboratory\n         data, architectural drawings and blueprints, printed material,\n         and photographs. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder collected material,\n         18981945, on various subjects related to the different aspects\n         of his work, including agriculture, chemistry, chemists'\n         associations, fertilizer, horticulture, livestock, and\n         mineralogy. Also included are \n          Magruder family papers, consisting of\n         correspondence, legal and business papers, plats and surveys,\n         and related papers. Topics or items of interest include\n         several letters,1861-1863, from \n          John Bowie Magruder during his service in\n         the \n          Confederate Army during the Civil War\n         describing several battles, including \n          Fredericksburg and \n          Suffolk, and camp life at \n          Fort Dillard, \n          Fort Drury (near \n          Fredericksburg), and on White Marsh Road\n         near \n          Suffolk; an 1861 account book kept by \n          John Bowie Magruder for the \n          Rivanna Guards; a letter, October 17,\n         1864, to \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder from his son, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder while a prisoner\n         at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland, during the war;\n         papers pertaining to the purchase of \"Glenmore\"; papers concerning various \n          Virginia estates such as \"Edgehill\" and \"Glenmore\" in \n          Albemarle County, \"Blenheim\" in Caroline County, \"Union Mills\" in \n          Fluvanna County, and \"River Bend\" in \n          Spotsylvania County; an account book from\n         the Charlottesville Grange; and genealogical\n         and biographical information for the Magruder family and allied families.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers of the Magruder Family"],"collection_ssim":["Papers of the Magruder Family"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["2733-b"],"unitid_tesim":["2733-b"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was donated to the Library on February 19, 1985, by: \n             R. Gregory Magruder, Evalina Magruder, Allaville Magruder, and Elizabeth Henshaw , all of Charlottesville, Virginia; Frances Lummis Lloyd of  Longmont, Colorado; Lt. Col. Mason M. Lummis of Alexandria, Virginia; and, Gen. Carter B. Magruder of Arlington, Virginia ."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is divided into six series: I. Correspondence; II. Family and Personal Papers; III. Egbert Watson Magruder Papers; IV. Miscellaneous; V. Bound Volumes; and Oversize. Folders are arranged alphabetically within each series. Oversize items are arranged chronologically. 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He completed courses in\n         chemistry at the \n          University of Virginia, and entered \n          Johns Hopkins University in 1892, where he\n         was assistant in the department of chemistry during his last\n         two years. Afterwards, he received an appointment to the \n          Mississippi College of Agriculture . For\n         approximately fifteen years, until his resignation in 1915, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was the Chief\n         Chemist and Pure Food Expert of the \n          State Department of Agriculture . During\n         part of this time, he was also director of the \n          Virginia Test Farm at \n          Saxe, Charlotte County . In 1915, he\n         accepted an offer to become the Chief Chemist of the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia, where his duties\n         included taking charge of all chemical laboratories, and\n         performing analytical and investigation work.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOn Novermber 8, 1916, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder married the former \n          Frances Byrd Alvey of \n          Richmond, Virginia . \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was a member of the\n         Board of Visitors of \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute, \n          Blacksburg, Virginia, the \n          American Chemical Society, \n          Association of Official Agricultural\n         Chemists, \n          Virginia Academy of Science, and \n          American Society of Agronomy, as well as\n         being a member of the following clubs: \n          Virginia Chemists' Club, \n          Hampton Roads Chemists' Club (as one of\n         the organizers and first president of each), the \n          Kiwanis Club, \n          Norfolk Country Club, and the \n          Norfolk Town Club . In addition, he wrote\n         numerous articles on agricultural chemistry and agriculture,\n         including such topics as the manufacture and use of commercial\n         fertilizer, the cultivation of wheat and tobacco, and food and\n         food adulterations. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder owned a farm of ca.\n         100 acres at \n          Dry Bridge, Chesterfield County; he\n         remained with the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company until his\n         death in 1945.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          Horatio \"Rashe\" Erskine Magruder was born\n         on September 8, 1846 in \n          Albemarle County, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . He was\n         educated in private country neighborhood schools before\n         entering the \n          Confederate Army at age seventeen in 1864.\n         He served in the \n          Rockbridge Artillery of Stonewall\n         Jackson's old Brigade, and took part in the battles of The \n          Wilderness and \n          Spotsylvania Courthouse. He was captured,\n         and imprisoned at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland; after a lengthy\n         illness in prison, he was exchanged, and returned to General \n          Robert E. Lee 's army in 1865 after his\n         recuperation. He was in the retreat of the \n          Confederate Army to \n          Appomattox .\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder attended the \n          University of Virginia, studying Latin,\n         Modern Languages, and Mathematics. He returned to \"Glenmore,\" the family home, where he\n         formed a partnership with his father, and eventually took over\n         management of the plantation. He was one of the most prominent\n         farmers in \n          Albemarle County . \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder married his\n         cousin, \n          Julia May Chewning, of \"Island Home,\" \n          Albemarle County, on December 12, 1894.\n         He was a member of the vestry of \n          Grace Episcopal Church in \n          Cismont, the \n          American Clan Gregor Society, and\n         president of the \n          Monticello Wine Company of \n          Charlottesville and the \n          Albemarle Mutual Fire Insurance Company .\n         He died on January 19, 1924 at \"Glenmore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Bowie Magruder was born on November\n         10, 1839, in \n          Albemarle County, the eldest son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . After\n         graduating from the \n          Albemarle Military Academy, he entered\n         the \n          University of Virginia, where he received\n         his M.A. degree in 1860. In the spring of 1861, he took a\n         special three-month military course at the \n          Virginia Military Institute in \n          Lexington, and raised a company in \n          Albemarle County known as the \n          Rivanna Guards . As captain, he took the\n         company to \n          Richmond in June 1861 where they were\n         mustered in with the \n          57th Regiment under \n          Lewis A. Armistead . He was promoted to\n         Colonel after the Battle of \n          Fredericksburg on December 22, 1862. He\n         was wounded during Pickett's Charge in the battle of \n          Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and carried to a\n         hospital near the battlefield where he died on July 5th.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Egbert Watson Magruder was born on October\n         25, 1868, in \n          Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Anne Evalina (Norris) Magruder . After his\n         early education in public and private schools, he entered \n          Hampden-Sydney College in 1887, and\n         received his B.A. degree in 1891. He completed courses in\n         chemistry at the \n          University of Virginia, and entered \n          Johns Hopkins University in 1892, where he\n         was assistant in the department of chemistry during his last\n         two years. Afterwards, he received an appointment to the \n          Mississippi College of Agriculture . For\n         approximately fifteen years, until his resignation in 1915, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was the Chief\n         Chemist and Pure Food Expert of the \n          State Department of Agriculture . During\n         part of this time, he was also director of the \n          Virginia Test Farm at \n          Saxe, Charlotte County . In 1915, he\n         accepted an offer to become the Chief Chemist of the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia, where his duties\n         included taking charge of all chemical laboratories, and\n         performing analytical and investigation work.","On Novermber 8, 1916, \n          Egbert Watson Magruder married the former \n          Frances Byrd Alvey of \n          Richmond, Virginia . \n          Egbert Watson Magruder was a member of the\n         Board of Visitors of \n          Virginia Polytechnic Institute, \n          Blacksburg, Virginia, the \n          American Chemical Society, \n          Association of Official Agricultural\n         Chemists, \n          Virginia Academy of Science, and \n          American Society of Agronomy, as well as\n         being a member of the following clubs: \n          Virginia Chemists' Club, \n          Hampton Roads Chemists' Club (as one of\n         the organizers and first president of each), the \n          Kiwanis Club, \n          Norfolk Country Club, and the \n          Norfolk Town Club . In addition, he wrote\n         numerous articles on agricultural chemistry and agriculture,\n         including such topics as the manufacture and use of commercial\n         fertilizer, the cultivation of wheat and tobacco, and food and\n         food adulterations. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder owned a farm of ca.\n         100 acres at \n          Dry Bridge, Chesterfield County; he\n         remained with the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company until his\n         death in 1945.","Horatio \"Rashe\" Erskine Magruder was born\n         on September 8, 1846 in \n          Albemarle County, the son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . He was\n         educated in private country neighborhood schools before\n         entering the \n          Confederate Army at age seventeen in 1864.\n         He served in the \n          Rockbridge Artillery of Stonewall\n         Jackson's old Brigade, and took part in the battles of The \n          Wilderness and \n          Spotsylvania Courthouse. He was captured,\n         and imprisoned at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland; after a lengthy\n         illness in prison, he was exchanged, and returned to General \n          Robert E. Lee 's army in 1865 after his\n         recuperation. He was in the retreat of the \n          Confederate Army to \n          Appomattox .","After the war, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder attended the \n          University of Virginia, studying Latin,\n         Modern Languages, and Mathematics. He returned to \"Glenmore,\" the family home, where he\n         formed a partnership with his father, and eventually took over\n         management of the plantation. He was one of the most prominent\n         farmers in \n          Albemarle County . \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder married his\n         cousin, \n          Julia May Chewning, of \"Island Home,\" \n          Albemarle County, on December 12, 1894.\n         He was a member of the vestry of \n          Grace Episcopal Church in \n          Cismont, the \n          American Clan Gregor Society, and\n         president of the \n          Monticello Wine Company of \n          Charlottesville and the \n          Albemarle Mutual Fire Insurance Company .\n         He died on January 19, 1924 at \"Glenmore.\"","John Bowie Magruder was born on November\n         10, 1839, in \n          Albemarle County, the eldest son of \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder and \n          Maria Louisa (Minor) Magruder . After\n         graduating from the \n          Albemarle Military Academy, he entered\n         the \n          University of Virginia, where he received\n         his M.A. degree in 1860. In the spring of 1861, he took a\n         special three-month military course at the \n          Virginia Military Institute in \n          Lexington, and raised a company in \n          Albemarle County known as the \n          Rivanna Guards . As captain, he took the\n         company to \n          Richmond in June 1861 where they were\n         mustered in with the \n          57th Regiment under \n          Lewis A. Armistead . He was promoted to\n         Colonel after the Battle of \n          Fredericksburg on December 22, 1862. He\n         was wounded during Pickett's Charge in the battle of \n          Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and carried to a\n         hospital near the battlefield where he died on July 5th."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of the Magruder Family, Accession #2733-b, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of the Magruder Family, Accession #2733-b, Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of ca. 2988 items (10 Hollinger\n         boxes and oversize items), ca. 1787-1945, pertaining chiefly\n         to the career of \n          Egbert Watson Magruder as an agricultural\n         chemist for the \n          Department of Agriculture of Virginia and,\n         later, for the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, reports, articles and speeches, laboratory\n         data, architectural drawings and blueprints, printed material,\n         and photographs. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder collected material,\n         18981945, on various subjects related to the different aspects\n         of his work, including agriculture, chemistry, chemists'\n         associations, fertilizer, horticulture, livestock, and\n         mineralogy. Also included are \n          Magruder family papers, consisting of\n         correspondence, legal and business papers, plats and surveys,\n         and related papers. Topics or items of interest include\n         several letters,1861-1863, from \n          John Bowie Magruder during his service in\n         the \n          Confederate Army during the Civil War\n         describing several battles, including \n          Fredericksburg and \n          Suffolk, and camp life at \n          Fort Dillard, \n          Fort Drury (near \n          Fredericksburg), and on White Marsh Road\n         near \n          Suffolk; an 1861 account book kept by \n          John Bowie Magruder for the \n          Rivanna Guards; a letter, October 17,\n         1864, to \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder from his son, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder while a prisoner\n         at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland, during the war;\n         papers pertaining to the purchase of \"Glenmore\"; papers concerning various \n          Virginia estates such as \"Edgehill\" and \"Glenmore\" in \n          Albemarle County, \"Blenheim\" in Caroline County, \"Union Mills\" in \n          Fluvanna County, and \"River Bend\" in \n          Spotsylvania County; an account book from\n         the Charlottesville Grange; and genealogical\n         and biographical information for the Magruder family and allied families.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of ca. 2988 items (10 Hollinger\n         boxes and oversize items), ca. 1787-1945, pertaining chiefly\n         to the career of \n          Egbert Watson Magruder as an agricultural\n         chemist for the \n          Department of Agriculture of Virginia and,\n         later, for the \n          F. S. Royster Guano Company of \n          Norfolk, Virginia . Included are\n         correspondence, reports, articles and speeches, laboratory\n         data, architectural drawings and blueprints, printed material,\n         and photographs. \n          Egbert Watson Magruder collected material,\n         18981945, on various subjects related to the different aspects\n         of his work, including agriculture, chemistry, chemists'\n         associations, fertilizer, horticulture, livestock, and\n         mineralogy. Also included are \n          Magruder family papers, consisting of\n         correspondence, legal and business papers, plats and surveys,\n         and related papers. Topics or items of interest include\n         several letters,1861-1863, from \n          John Bowie Magruder during his service in\n         the \n          Confederate Army during the Civil War\n         describing several battles, including \n          Fredericksburg and \n          Suffolk, and camp life at \n          Fort Dillard, \n          Fort Drury (near \n          Fredericksburg), and on White Marsh Road\n         near \n          Suffolk; an 1861 account book kept by \n          John Bowie Magruder for the \n          Rivanna Guards; a letter, October 17,\n         1864, to \n          Benjamin Henry Magruder from his son, \n          Horatio Erskine Magruder while a prisoner\n         at \n          Point Lookout, Maryland, during the war;\n         papers pertaining to the purchase of \"Glenmore\"; papers concerning various \n          Virginia estates such as \"Edgehill\" and \"Glenmore\" in \n          Albemarle County, \"Blenheim\" in Caroline County, \"Union Mills\" in \n          Fluvanna County, and \"River Bend\" in \n          Spotsylvania County; an account book from\n         the Charlottesville Grange; and genealogical\n         and biographical information for the Magruder family and allied families."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":118,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:31:42.753Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00036_c02_c28"}},{"id":"viu_viu00220_c01_c132","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"WILLIAM F. 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Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.","A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"collection_ssim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["38-135"],"unitid_tesim":["38-135"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Laura Ingram"],"creator_ssim":["Laura Ingram"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was purchased by the Library in\n            1922."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of ca. 1000\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n          JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eby \n          John Carl Miller \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis is the curious story of how it happened.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eInterest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n        \u003cblockquote\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003c/blockquote\u003e\n      \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePrivate tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOn Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBy 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSuch, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the two bound volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eShortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWord of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eStill another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLetters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOne can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eA number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS","by \n          John Carl Miller","When \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSecond Edition by John E. Reilly\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of John Carl Miller\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship.\u003c/title\u003e Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia.\u003c/title\u003e This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBuilding Poe Biography,\u003c/title\u003e was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's Helen Remembers,\u003c/title\u003e appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eCount Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBaltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiven to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 54.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56-57.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 73-75.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 81-82\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 83-85.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 150-151.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 163-166.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 299-300.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe True Story of Edgar Allan Poe,\u003c/title\u003e p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 315.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 318.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eAutograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors,\u003c/title\u003e 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Literati of New York City.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 349-350.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 350-351.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 391-398.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 409-411.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 413-414.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 441.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWrites of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStill in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 461-462.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRedfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026amp; \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026amp; they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026amp; saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcademy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal;\u003c/title\u003e\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHistory of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCould Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePowell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe did not die drunk, as the world believes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eKey has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMorison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eResponds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAs a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026amp; amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAt Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSince receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026amp; character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOnly the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAll that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAlthough often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLocker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePeterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJudge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026amp;\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Poe family is mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGarnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eI. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 397.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEuget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRoden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopied from the Curio, January-February 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBeecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThat stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eD'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDoes Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNo picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eShe sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eModelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eForwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem has been made into a booklet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNew York Evening Mirror.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn adverse review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEditor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy signed by Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWriter furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSame as Item 560.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eClarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDespite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFunds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eP. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTwo sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMarvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAddressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProgram of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life and work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe and of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSatirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. A biographical-critical essay.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTen parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e See Item 616.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCriticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMessrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortion of an article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical sketch.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRefuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParagraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBriggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTakes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA caustic review of the 4th edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDenies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, favorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn office boy in the offices of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe edition will appear in three volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGeorge denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated heavily by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThough generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExtract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCommendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJoint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePlans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAsks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable comments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEllis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRaises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSuggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAttributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMajor \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePresentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGenerally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDefensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStriking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMinor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMenchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026amp; Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCritical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eControversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eScholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHighly laudatory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReplying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInfers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFeature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCaustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eList of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Centennial article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. On the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWas it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBurton's Gentleman's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraham's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWeekly Mirror,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e\n                  and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eDemocratic Review.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWith two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePolitely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDeclares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1053,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:32:33.870Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00220_c01_c132"}},{"id":"viu_viu00089_c01_c01_c23","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"William Fulmer to Samuel\n                     Fulmer, 1874","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00089_c01_c01_c23#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ere family news\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00089_c01_c01_c23#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viu_viu00089_c01_c01_c23","ref_ssm":["viu_viu00089_c01_c01_c23"],"id":"viu_viu00089_c01_c01_c23","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00089","_root_":"viu_viu00089","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00089_c01_c01","parent_ssi":"viu_viu00089_c01_c01","parent_ssim":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941","SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE","A: NINETEENTH CENTURY\n                  CORRESPONDENTS"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viu_viu00089","viu_viu00089_c01","viu_viu00089_c01_c01"],"title_filing_ssi":"William Fulmer to Samuel\n                     Fulmer","title_ssm":["William Fulmer to Samuel\n                     Fulmer"],"title_tesim":["William Fulmer to Samuel\n                     Fulmer"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William Fulmer to Samuel\n                     Fulmer, 1874"],"text":["William Fulmer to Samuel\n                     Fulmer, 1874","Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941","SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE","A: NINETEENTH CENTURY\n                  CORRESPONDENTS","Box Box 1","re family news"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941","SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE","A: NINETEENTH CENTURY\n                  CORRESPONDENTS"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941","SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE","A: NINETEENTH CENTURY\n                  CORRESPONDENTS"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1874"],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1874 Jan 1"],"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"component_level_isim":[3],"sort_isi":25,"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941"],"containers_ssim":["Box Box 1"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"date_range_isim":[1874],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ere family news\u003c/p\u003e\n            "],"scopecontent_tesim":["re family news"],"_nest_path_":"/components#0/components#0/components#22","timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:31:56.027Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00089","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00089","_root_":"viu_viu00089","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00089","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00089.xml","title_ssm":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941"],"title_tesim":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941"],"text":["Henkel Family Papers \n         1805-1941","8653-f","ca. 475 items","Collection is open to research","This collection has been divided into two alphabetical\n         series: 1) Correspondence and 2) Miscellaneous Papers. The\n         nineteenth century correspondence has been arranged\n         alphabetically by name of correspondent. The miscellaneous\n         papers have been arranged according to type of material.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities","This addition to the papers of the \n         Henkel familyof \n         New Market, Virginia, consists of ca. 475\n         items (4 Hollinger boxes, ca. 2 linear feet), 1805-1941, and\n         contains correspondence, business and legal papers,\n         genealogical material, account books, photographs, notes,\n         block cuts, subscription lists, minute books, printed\n         material, and manuscripts.","The nineteenth century correspondents of the \n         Henkel familyare listed alphabetically in\n         the folder listing section of this guide beginning on page\n         five with a brief note concerning the content of the letters.\n         Mr. \n         John G. Stewart, retired professor of \n         James Madison University, has supplied\n         notes concerning the content of those letters in German. Most\n         of the correspondence was addressed to Dr. \n         Solomon Henkeland Dr. \n         Samuel G. Henkel.","The correspondence of the \n         Henkel Family Associationcontains the\n         following topics: a discussion about the inscriptions on the \n         Hinkle Fortmonument and the memorial for \n         John Justus Henckelwith notes on the\n         history of \n         Hinkle's Fortand \n         John Justus Henckel(1935 Aug 21); remarks\n         concerning \n         Christina Hinkleand \n         Isaac Harmonupon the unveiling of the\n         monument to \n         John Justus Henckelby \n         J.W. Harmonof \n         Parsons, West Virginia(1937 Jan 25); \n         Jacob Henkel's property in \n         West Virginia(1937 Sep 20); information\n         regarding \n         Angeline Millerand \n         Adam Sheets(1940 Jan 6); and \n         Jacob Hinkle, son of \n         George Rudolphus Hinkle(1940 Jan 11).","Some items in the business and legal papers include a\n         memorandum of type to be secured in \n         Baltimore(1826 Oct 15); the attempt to\n         purchase a \"boalting cloth No. 8\" for use in \n         John Coiner's flour mill (1834 Jun 3); a\n         fine for \n         Samuel G. Henkel's non-attendance at the\n         regimental muster in Captain Neff's Company (1839); plans for \n         Godfred Hinkle's barn (1840 Feb 20); a \n         Land Office TreasuryWarrant # 18063 to \n         Samuel G. Henkelfor 590 acres (1849 Nov\n         26); \n         Solomon Henkel's memorandum book with\n         notes for the settling of his estate (1856 Feb 28); a bill of\n         type to be secured in \n         Baltimoreat Spaldings (1837 Apr 26);\n         typed copies of \n         Henkel familyland patents, surveys, and\n         deeds in \n         Virginiaand \n         West Virginia(n.d.).","Genealogical materials include a \n         Conrad familyand \n         Keyser familynotebook (1917); a \"family\n         record of Henkel Stock\" as copied by Dr. \n         C.C. Henkeland Rev. \n         D.M. Henkel, partially related by Dr. \n         Solomon Henkel(n.d.); and miscellaneous\n         notes and manuscripts concerning the \n         Henkel family.","Miscellaneous papers contains notes about Rev. Reck's\n         sermons taken by [ \n         Samuel G. Henkel] (1825); a phrenological\n         analysis of the head of \n         Samuel G. Henkel(1841 Apr 2); the\n         marriage certificate of \n         Gideon Koinerand \n         Rebecca M. Henkel(1853 Nov 14); a\n         qualitative analysis of a sample of water made by \n         University of VirginiaProfessor \n         J.W. Mallet(1892 Oct 15); the historical\n         address \"One Army of the Living God\" given before the \n         Henkel Memorial Associationin \n         Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, concerning\n         the contributions of the \n         Henkel Family(1917); minutes of the \n         Henkel Memorial Association(n.d.); and an\n         engraving of a printing press patented by \n         Peter Smithand manufactured by \n         Robert Hoe and Company, \n         New York(n.d.).","Also present are three bound volumes of records pertaining\n         to the \n         New Market Academy, including minutes,\n         subscription lists, resignation letters of its professors, and\n         other loose material found in the volumes, 1838-1941. Dr. \n         Solomon Henkelwas one of the original\n         Trustees appointed on February 21, 1817, when the \n         New Market Academywas incorporated. The \n         Henkel familyhas been represented on the \n         Board of Trustees of the New Market\n         Academythroughout its history by such men as \n         Samuel G. Henkeland \n         C.C. Henkel.","Photographs include those of Dr. [ \n         Casper Henkel]; \n         Barbara Teter Henkel; a page from the\n         diary of Rev. \n         H.M. Muhlenbergconcerning Rev. \n         Anthony Jacob Henkel; the \n         Hinkle Fortbuilt by \n         Justus Henckel; two houses built by \n         Abraham Henckel; the memorial monument to\n         John Justus Henckel, Sr.; sons of Dr. \n         Solomon Henkel; Rev. \n         Paul Henkeland his wife, \n         Elizabeth Nagley Henkel; and the sons of\n         Rev. \n         Paul Henkel.","Most of the printed material is described in the folder\n         listing part of this guide.","* indicates some or all documents are in\n                  German","re his absence in Germany and his instructions\n                     that his mail be sent to Solomon Henkel where he\n                     will pick it up on his return to the United\n                     States","re his need of medical supplies as he is a\n                     physician","re financial provision for his aunt, Mrs.\n                     Duff","re his preparations for sailing to\n                     California","re the improvements in his health, rumors of\n                     the death of Solomon Henkel, and a fire engine for\n                     sale","re arrangements for a cataract operation","re Mr. Yeager's misrepresentation of his\n                     statements concerning the Tennessee Synod in The\n                     Observer","re his supply of medical instruments and models\n                     with their cost","his letters include: a list of elders and\n                     officers of the Hebron Church, Madison County\n                     (1809 Jun); his difficulties in attending Special\n                     Conference, books sent for sale, and a discussion\n                     of methods of payment (1809 Sep 14); his trip to\n                     Ohio, and his request to Paul or Phillip Henkel to\n                     preach in his church and also at the Reformed\n                     Church (1810 Aug 22); acknowledgement of the\n                     receipt of some medicine and mention of the good\n                     acceptance of the Song Book by the congregation\n                     (1811 Mar 9); difficulties in obtaining Conference\n                     Reports and description of his sickness (1811 Apr\n                     1); approval of new Catechism, and requests\n                     information re next Special Conference (1812 Feb\n                     3); discussion of the possibility of the Henkel\n                     Press printing Arndt's \"Wahres Christenthum\" in\n                     English (1812 Apr 8); necessity of a personal\n                     meeting with Paul Henkel (1812 Sep 11); and\n                     mention of Solomon Henkel as agent for Johann\n                     Gruber in Hagerstown, and The Evangelical Magazine\n                     printed in Philadelphia (1813 Mar 8).","re money matters and the purchase of a\n                     horse","re the formation of a new Synod, testimonial\n                     for Rev. J. Killian, and the need for attention to\n                     the literary qualifications for aspiring young\n                     ministers","re his order for a Cycl[opedia]","re money sent to the post office and the\n                     failing health of all three of her brothers,\n                     Martin, David, and Simon","difficulties re taxes and land formerly owned\n                     by Johannes Henkel (1812 Sep 20); and questions re\n                     sale of land and request for advice (1816 May\n                     16)","death of two of his sons due to dysentery, wife\n                     and slave both in serious condition (Feb 16) and\n                     the introduction of English Song Books in Madison\n                     County (Jul 22)","request for books and a proposal for\n                     transporting them (1806 Oct 11); his interest in\n                     subscription to a New Market newspaper and\n                     detailed description of a deadly disease on the\n                     rampage in North Carolina (1807 Oct 11); while in\n                     Staunton sends announcement that he wishes to\n                     preach in New Market on June 25 th (1815 Jun\n                     20)","difficulties in recruiting preachers, the need\n                     for outsiders to come to [South Carolina ?], and\n                     business matters","re an order for books about Martin Luther, the\n                     Augsburg Confession, Catechisms, and hymn books in\n                     English and German to be sent to Saluda, S.C.,\n                     inroads made by other denominations in South\n                     Carolina and David Henkel's work there","re expressions of his love","request for books including two dozen\n                     catechisms for teaching purposes","difficulties in attending the Special\n                     Conference in New Market because of distance and\n                     pastoral duties (1807 Sep 12); a list of officers,\n                     Lutheran and Reformed, and the location of\n                     churches in Wythe, Montgomery, and Greenbriar\n                     Counties (1809 Oct 18); receipt of catechisms and\n                     their success as a teaching tool (1809 Oct);\n                     detailed and lengthy manuscript of a Lutheran\n                     Catechism, and its differences with Reformed\n                     beliefs (1810 Dec 22); explanation and commentary\n                     re Catechism (1811 Feb 16); suggestions re the new\n                     Lutheran Catechism (1811 Jul 30); urgent request\n                     for more English Catechisms, saying more than 200\n                     could be sold, if available, and interest in\n                     applying for Pastor Carpenter's job in Madison\n                     County (1814 Apr 14); request for more English\n                     Catechisms (1819 Sep 14); account of books (1820\n                     Feb 5); requests more first edition catechisms,\n                     recommends the bank notes from the Union Bank of\n                     Alexandria or the North Carolina Treasury bills\n                     for paying notes (1820 Apr 1); requests\n                     clarification of his account (1820 Jun 24);\n                     requests for more catechisms, concern with his\n                     book account and mention of the South Carolina\n                     State Bank (1821 Sep 1; 1822 Jun 3 Aug 4; \u0026\n                     Dec 18); warning about a so-called preacher by the\n                     name of Miller, known for his drinking and\n                     carousing, [who ?] will be in New Market soon and\n                     will want to buy a horse to ride back to\n                     Pennsylvania (1823 Jan 24).","money transactions with Henkel's brother-in-law\n                     Miller in Winchester (1819 Jan 19); and requests\n                     for Henkel to mediate between two parties re land\n                     transactions (1822 Dec 23)","re family news","request to expedite the binding of the Song\n                     Books as he will be in New Market on the following\n                     Saturday","difficulties in receiving mail (1812 Jun\n                     18)","transaction involving the trading of 2/6 nails\n                     for Song Books in New Market","lengthy remarks re the new Catechism and his\n                     own personal observations","J.O. Kramer of Maytown, North Carolina, has two\n                     dozen copies of a book which Henkel wants (Jul\n                     30); reference to previous letter and the sale of\n                     books (Sep 4); acknowlegement of the receipt of\n                     books (Nov 14)","requests for German catechisms","request for German Bible (1815 Dec 5); and\n                     business transactions re books (1816 Dec 8)","account of books (1810) and book transactions\n                     and a list of subscribers to a book (1821)","re his refusal to get involved in political\n                     questions, favoring a complete separation of\n                     church and state, as does the Lutheran Church and\n                     the Society for the Promotion of Christian\n                     Union","Request for a subscription for a church\n                     proposal (1805); his acknowledgement of the\n                     influence of Henkel on the writing of a small book\n                     by Helmuth (1817); the cessation of the The\n                     Evangelical Magazine and his recommendation of\n                     Pastor Plitt's new magazine (1820)","arrival in Point Pleasant and his great\n                     difficulty in learning German","re a list of articles that he wants him to get\n                     for him, the isolation of their home from society,\n                     Ambrose's success in selling medicines and books\n                     on commission, the success of other businessmen,\n                     the desire of the German people to educate their\n                     children, his neighbors desire for the Henkel\n                     family to erect a post office, store, and school\n                     located at the crossroads at Wood's Ferry, Green\n                     County, Tennessee; his regret that Samuel will not\n                     visit soon, his hopes of finishing his studies so\n                     he might be a candidate for the position at the\n                     New Market Academy, his \"medical practice,\" the\n                     need of copies of the Concordia and other\n                     books","re his criticism of Professor Samuel\n                     Schmucker's Popular Theology because of its\n                     deviation from the fundamental doctrines of the\n                     Lutheran Church and the General Synod, the birth\n                     of his son Casper Coiner Henkel, and and Rev.\n                     Charles Henkel's translation of the Augustan\n                     Confession (1835); the republication of the works\n                     of David Henkel, and the impracticality of using\n                     agents to sell their books (1836); a strange\n                     medical case (1843); a request that the son of\n                     Hannah Stirewalt be admitted to the University of\n                     Virginia (1848); the translation of the Book of\n                     Concord (1849); the Book of Concord about to be\n                     bound, and his annoyance with the teaching of\n                     Professor Schmucker (1851); and recommendations to\n                     the Tennessee Synod meeting in 1857.","re his medical studies in Philadelphia","re family news","offer of this bookseller to send a catalog of\n                     medical books, his plans to travel to Europe in\n                     eight weeks and his offer to visit friends and\n                     acquaintances of Solomon Henkel","re the salary for a minister at New Market","re a gift from her mother","list of subscribers for Henkel Press Song Book\n                     in Pendleton and Hardy Counties","questions re content of the catechism, symptoms\n                     of his sick wife, praise of Paul Henkel's work in\n                     Ohio, possibility of moving to Brush Creek Church,\n                     Highland County","re request to study medical practice with\n                     him","land transaction in the area of Salisbury,\n                     North Carolina, with the signatures of witnesses\n                     (1805) and questions re payment for land\n                     (1806)","request to engrave the plates for Baron\n                     Steuben's \"Regulations for the Order and\n                     Discipline of the Troops of the United States,\"\n                     with sample plates (formerly) enclosed, and\n                     immediate reply needed","re a letter possibly mailed to New Market,\n                     Virginia by mistake","proposal to sell Henkel Press ABC books in\n                     Philadelphia by means of subscriptions","request for books, especially the new ABC book\n                     (1808 Apr 9); note that the ABC books are selling\n                     well, request's Helmuth's Spelling Book and\n                     medical advice (1809 Apr 23); list of subcribers\n                     for 170 Song Books (1809 Dec 16); two pages of\n                     brief Biblical interpretations, and more\n                     subscribers for Song Books (1810 Feb 10); request\n                     that Paul Henkel come to North Carolina to help\n                     Pastor Schober with difficulties in his\n                     congregation (1810 Sep 5); demand for the Song\n                     Book and ABC books, intention of traveling to\n                     Kentucky and Ohio and visiting New Market on his\n                     return, and his work on a Children's Book (1811\n                     Mar 27); description of trip to Ohio, his travels\n                     through Tennessee and Kentucky, the great influx\n                     of Baptists in Ohio, the need for both German and\n                     English Catechisms, Song Books, and ABC books, and\n                     the need for Paul Henkel in Ohio (1811 Aug 27);\n                     his return from Ohio, translation work on \"Ein\n                     Briefwechsel die Methodisten betreffend\" (1811 Dec\n                     16); need for more books translated into English,\n                     plans another trip with Paul Henkel to Ohio, and\n                     worries re the War and conscription (1812 Jun 13);\n                     and his desire to travel but not teach school\n                     children, difficulties in North Carolina re the\n                     Song Books and Catechism, hints of a split among\n                     congregations (1813 Jan 4)","list of officers and elders in Bottetourt\n                     County (1809); and request for the name and\n                     address of the present secretary of the German\n                     Evangelical Ministry (Ministerium)","report re steam driven printing presses in New\n                     York and Philadelphia","request for English Catechisms, also Conference\n                     Reports (1816); account of books and difficulties\n                     in selling books (1817); good reception of the new\n                     ABC books in Tennessee (1818)","troubles re the survival of the German\n                     [language], and good reception of the new ABC\n                     books","re arrangements to purchase books for the\n                     brethren in North Carolina","synodical difficulties in North and South\n                     Carolina","advice re cancer cure using an arsenic\n                     solution, hydrophobia, recently acquired books for\n                     sale, book store started by Muhlenberg and his\n                     source for books, his interest in medicinal plants\n                     and names of plant dealers, Dr. John Brickel and\n                     Fr. Dahlman (1805); advice concerning herbs, and a\n                     list of eleven books with their prices sent to New\n                     Market (1806); financial accounts concerning Mr.\n                     Etter, Michael Lohr, and Heinrich Busching, and\n                     complaints re bills (1807)","request for medicine for a pastor's wife and a\n                     description of her symptoms","inability to sell books and his desire to\n                     return the 150 small books","reference to previous letters, collection of\n                     bills, and the Bank of Alexandria","report of his position as a teacher in\n                     Franconia Township near Philadelphia, request for\n                     twelve dozen ABC Books and a dozen other books\n                     (1811); and lack of a bill with the books received\n                     from the Henkels (1812)","the health of her son","request for tobacco seeds from Virginia with\n                     instructions for planting, in return for seeds of\n                     European plants recently bought abroad","request for German-English and English-German\n                     dictionaries (1816 Apr 2); thankfulness for the\n                     books and gratitude for Solomon Henkel's work in\n                     the Church (1816 Sep 30); receipt of box of books\n                     in Christiansburg (1818 Sep 17); return of two\n                     damaged books (1818 Sep 28); difficult time to\n                     sell books (1821 Apr 8)","reference to a delivery of a package with\n                     newspapers or pamphlets and the need for\n                     subscribers","re an order of books","the need for Song Books and a misunderstanding\n                     re Special Conference attendance","re his marriage to Susan Koiner (1832) and\n                     other family news","re renting a plantation managed by Henkel and\n                     owned by Casper Koiner","re his financial affairs, the settling of a\n                     debt in Virginia owed to James and Alexander Wray,\n                     the interest due on the bonds made out to Samuel\n                     Henkel, and settling a debt in Philadelphia","Book Society wants to sell Shakespeare's works\n                     (22 volumes) for $ 9.00, the Collected Works of\n                     the King of Prussia (15 volumes) for $ 6.00, and\n                     Stiller's Heimweh for $ 5.00 (180[7] Jul 20);\n                     complaints about lack of correspondence and\n                     uncertainty of whether Henkel received the money\n                     (1808 Oct 17); receipt of newspaper and desire to\n                     receive copies of new pamphlets and books printed\n                     in New Market (1809 Apr 2); misunderstanding re\n                     the political views expressed by the writer and\n                     made public by Henkel, Republicans and Federalists\n                     are friends and calls the Democrats and Torys\n                     enemies of freedom (1809 Apr 15); announcement of\n                     a possible move to York, plans to preach in\n                     Woodstock, Shenandoah County, the first of August\n                     (1809 Jun 9); excerpts of \"Protocols of the\n                     Lutheran Synod,\" Philadelphia, permission for Paul\n                     Henkel to do missionary work in Kentucky,\n                     Tennessee, Ohio, and Virginia, advice to Lutheran\n                     ministers to avoid camp meetings, and request for\n                     Paul Henkel's travel diary (1811 Jun 27); excerpts\n                     of Paul Henkel's missionary activities in South\n                     Carolina to be published by Mr. Helmuth in The\n                     Evangelical Magazine which needs 500 new\n                     subscribers to get started (1811 Aug 27); praises\n                     several Henkel publications (1812 Jan 11); remarks\n                     re The Evangelical Magazine and books ordered\n                     (1812 Apr 1); belief that the printing of the new\n                     Song Book should have been financially aided by\n                     the Synod (1812 Oct 17); business account and\n                     advice to David Henkel to enter the ministry (1812\n                     Dec 18); possibility that Pastor Carpenter may go\n                     to Kentucky, and worries over possible victory by\n                     Napoleon Bonaparte (1813 Dec 3); Synodical\n                     expenses for Paul Henkel (1814 Jun 15); The\n                     Evangelical Magazine will be published yearly, and\n                     rejoicing re Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall (1814\n                     Jul 23); accounts of [The Evangelical Magazine]\n                     taken care of by Pastor Muhlenberg in Reading\n                     (1817 Jun 11); asks if anyone in the area is a\n                     subscriber to the second part of Georg Schmucker's\n                     Prophetic History (1818 Dec 30); enclosure of a\n                     new children's book requested by Dr. Helmuth (1819\n                     Apr 27); and acknowledgement of a letter (1821 Aug\n                     31)","rumors of a Henkel Press business to be\n                     established in Lincolntown, North Carolina, and\n                     non-receipt of Honig Tropfen","re the need for printer's ink","re the birth of a son, William Bentin, to [his\n                     wife ?] Jane, other family news, and the bonds of\n                     Jacob Savage","re his problems with his uncle over the use of\n                     a farm","re Jacob Savage's notes","re his duties as Postmaster at New Market","re collecting on his account","re the payment of some bonds and other business\n                  matters","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","University of Virginia. 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Stewart\u003c/persname\u003e, retired professor of \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eJames Madison University\u003c/corpname\u003e, has supplied\n         notes concerning the content of those letters in German. Most\n         of the correspondence was addressed to Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSolomon Henkel\u003c/persname\u003eand Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel G. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHenkel Family Association\u003c/corpname\u003econtains the\n         following topics: a discussion about the inscriptions on the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eHinkle Fort\u003c/geogname\u003emonument and the memorial for \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Justus Henckel\u003c/persname\u003ewith notes on the\n         history of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eHinkle's Fort\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Justus Henckel\u003c/persname\u003e(1935 Aug 21); remarks\n         concerning \n         \u003cpersname\u003eChristina Hinkle\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eIsaac Harmon\u003c/persname\u003eupon the unveiling of the\n         monument to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Justus Henckel\u003c/persname\u003eby \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJ.W. Harmon\u003c/persname\u003eof \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eParsons, West Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(1937 Jan 25); \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJacob Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e's property in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWest Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(1937 Sep 20); information\n         regarding \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAngeline Miller\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAdam Sheets\u003c/persname\u003e(1940 Jan 6); and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJacob Hinkle\u003c/persname\u003e, son of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Rudolphus Hinkle\u003c/persname\u003e(1940 Jan 11).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSome items in the business and legal papers include a\n         memorandum of type to be secured in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBaltimore\u003c/geogname\u003e(1826 Oct 15); the attempt to\n         purchase a \"boalting cloth No. 8\" for use in \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Coiner\u003c/persname\u003e's flour mill (1834 Jun 3); a\n         fine for \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel G. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e's non-attendance at the\n         regimental muster in Captain Neff's Company (1839); plans for \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGodfred Hinkle\u003c/persname\u003e's barn (1840 Feb 20); a \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eLand Office Treasury\u003c/corpname\u003eWarrant # 18063 to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel G. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003efor 590 acres (1849 Nov\n         26); \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSolomon Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e's memorandum book with\n         notes for the settling of his estate (1856 Feb 28); a bill of\n         type to be secured in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBaltimore\u003c/geogname\u003eat Spaldings (1837 Apr 26);\n         typed copies of \n         \u003cfamname\u003eHenkel family\u003c/famname\u003eland patents, surveys, and\n         deeds in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eWest Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical materials include a \n         \u003cfamname\u003eConrad family\u003c/famname\u003eand \n         \u003cfamname\u003eKeyser family\u003c/famname\u003enotebook (1917); a \"family\n         record of Henkel Stock\" as copied by Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eC.C. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003eand Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eD.M. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e, partially related by Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSolomon Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e(n.d.); and miscellaneous\n         notes and manuscripts concerning the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eHenkel family\u003c/famname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous papers contains notes about Rev. Reck's\n         sermons taken by [ \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel G. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e] (1825); a phrenological\n         analysis of the head of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel G. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e(1841 Apr 2); the\n         marriage certificate of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGideon Koiner\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eRebecca M. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e(1853 Nov 14); a\n         qualitative analysis of a sample of water made by \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eProfessor \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJ.W. Mallet\u003c/persname\u003e(1892 Oct 15); the historical\n         address \"One Army of the Living God\" given before the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHenkel Memorial Association\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n         \u003cgeogname\u003ePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania\u003c/geogname\u003e, concerning\n         the contributions of the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eHenkel Family\u003c/famname\u003e(1917); minutes of the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHenkel Memorial Association\u003c/corpname\u003e(n.d.); and an\n         engraving of a printing press patented by \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Smith\u003c/persname\u003eand manufactured by \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eRobert Hoe and Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eNew York\u003c/geogname\u003e(n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAlso present are three bound volumes of records pertaining\n         to the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eNew Market Academy\u003c/corpname\u003e, including minutes,\n         subscription lists, resignation letters of its professors, and\n         other loose material found in the volumes, 1838-1941. Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSolomon Henkel\u003c/persname\u003ewas one of the original\n         Trustees appointed on February 21, 1817, when the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eNew Market Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ewas incorporated. The \n         \u003cfamname\u003eHenkel family\u003c/famname\u003ehas been represented on the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eBoard of Trustees of the New Market\n         Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ethroughout its history by such men as \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel G. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eC.C. Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs include those of Dr. [ \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCasper Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e]; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eBarbara Teter Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e; a page from the\n         diary of Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eH.M. Muhlenberg\u003c/persname\u003econcerning Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnthony Jacob Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e; the \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eHinkle Fort\u003c/geogname\u003ebuilt by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJustus Henckel\u003c/persname\u003e; two houses built by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Henckel\u003c/persname\u003e; the memorial monument to\n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Justus Henckel, Sr.\u003c/persname\u003e; sons of Dr. \n         \u003cpersname\u003eSolomon Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e; Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePaul Henkel\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife, \n         \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Nagley Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e; and the sons of\n         Rev. \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePaul Henkel\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMost of the printed material is described in the folder\n         listing part of this guide.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003e* indicates some or all documents are in\n                  German\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ere his absence in Germany and his instructions\n                     that his mail be sent to Solomon Henkel where he\n                     will pick it up on his return to the United\n                     States\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his need of medical supplies as he is a\n                     physician\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere financial provision for his aunt, Mrs.\n                     Duff\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his preparations for sailing to\n                     California\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere the improvements in his health, rumors of\n                     the death of Solomon Henkel, and a fire engine for\n                     sale\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere arrangements for a cataract operation\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere Mr. Yeager's misrepresentation of his\n                     statements concerning the Tennessee Synod in The\n                     Observer\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his supply of medical instruments and models\n                     with their cost\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ehis letters include: a list of elders and\n                     officers of the Hebron Church, Madison County\n                     (1809 Jun); his difficulties in attending Special\n                     Conference, books sent for sale, and a discussion\n                     of methods of payment (1809 Sep 14); his trip to\n                     Ohio, and his request to Paul or Phillip Henkel to\n                     preach in his church and also at the Reformed\n                     Church (1810 Aug 22); acknowledgement of the\n                     receipt of some medicine and mention of the good\n                     acceptance of the Song Book by the congregation\n                     (1811 Mar 9); difficulties in obtaining Conference\n                     Reports and description of his sickness (1811 Apr\n                     1); approval of new Catechism, and requests\n                     information re next Special Conference (1812 Feb\n                     3); discussion of the possibility of the Henkel\n                     Press printing Arndt's \"Wahres Christenthum\" in\n                     English (1812 Apr 8); necessity of a personal\n                     meeting with Paul Henkel (1812 Sep 11); and\n                     mention of Solomon Henkel as agent for Johann\n                     Gruber in Hagerstown, and The Evangelical Magazine\n                     printed in Philadelphia (1813 Mar 8).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere money matters and the purchase of a\n                     horse\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere the formation of a new Synod, testimonial\n                     for Rev. J. Killian, and the need for attention to\n                     the literary qualifications for aspiring young\n                     ministers\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his order for a Cycl[opedia]\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere money sent to the post office and the\n                     failing health of all three of her brothers,\n                     Martin, David, and Simon\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003edifficulties re taxes and land formerly owned\n                     by Johannes Henkel (1812 Sep 20); and questions re\n                     sale of land and request for advice (1816 May\n                     16)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003edeath of two of his sons due to dysentery, wife\n                     and slave both in serious condition (Feb 16) and\n                     the introduction of English Song Books in Madison\n                     County (Jul 22)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for books and a proposal for\n                     transporting them (1806 Oct 11); his interest in\n                     subscription to a New Market newspaper and\n                     detailed description of a deadly disease on the\n                     rampage in North Carolina (1807 Oct 11); while in\n                     Staunton sends announcement that he wishes to\n                     preach in New Market on June 25 th (1815 Jun\n                     20)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003edifficulties in recruiting preachers, the need\n                     for outsiders to come to [South Carolina ?], and\n                     business matters\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere an order for books about Martin Luther, the\n                     Augsburg Confession, Catechisms, and hymn books in\n                     English and German to be sent to Saluda, S.C.,\n                     inroads made by other denominations in South\n                     Carolina and David Henkel's work there\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere expressions of his love\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for books including two dozen\n                     catechisms for teaching purposes\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003edifficulties in attending the Special\n                     Conference in New Market because of distance and\n                     pastoral duties (1807 Sep 12); a list of officers,\n                     Lutheran and Reformed, and the location of\n                     churches in Wythe, Montgomery, and Greenbriar\n                     Counties (1809 Oct 18); receipt of catechisms and\n                     their success as a teaching tool (1809 Oct);\n                     detailed and lengthy manuscript of a Lutheran\n                     Catechism, and its differences with Reformed\n                     beliefs (1810 Dec 22); explanation and commentary\n                     re Catechism (1811 Feb 16); suggestions re the new\n                     Lutheran Catechism (1811 Jul 30); urgent request\n                     for more English Catechisms, saying more than 200\n                     could be sold, if available, and interest in\n                     applying for Pastor Carpenter's job in Madison\n                     County (1814 Apr 14); request for more English\n                     Catechisms (1819 Sep 14); account of books (1820\n                     Feb 5); requests more first edition catechisms,\n                     recommends the bank notes from the Union Bank of\n                     Alexandria or the North Carolina Treasury bills\n                     for paying notes (1820 Apr 1); requests\n                     clarification of his account (1820 Jun 24);\n                     requests for more catechisms, concern with his\n                     book account and mention of the South Carolina\n                     State Bank (1821 Sep 1; 1822 Jun 3 Aug 4; \u0026amp;\n                     Dec 18); warning about a so-called preacher by the\n                     name of Miller, known for his drinking and\n                     carousing, [who ?] will be in New Market soon and\n                     will want to buy a horse to ride back to\n                     Pennsylvania (1823 Jan 24).\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003emoney transactions with Henkel's brother-in-law\n                     Miller in Winchester (1819 Jan 19); and requests\n                     for Henkel to mediate between two parties re land\n                     transactions (1822 Dec 23)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere family news\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest to expedite the binding of the Song\n                     Books as he will be in New Market on the following\n                     Saturday\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003edifficulties in receiving mail (1812 Jun\n                     18)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003etransaction involving the trading of 2/6 nails\n                     for Song Books in New Market\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003elengthy remarks re the new Catechism and his\n                     own personal observations\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eJ.O. Kramer of Maytown, North Carolina, has two\n                     dozen copies of a book which Henkel wants (Jul\n                     30); reference to previous letter and the sale of\n                     books (Sep 4); acknowlegement of the receipt of\n                     books (Nov 14)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequests for German catechisms\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for German Bible (1815 Dec 5); and\n                     business transactions re books (1816 Dec 8)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eaccount of books (1810) and book transactions\n                     and a list of subscribers to a book (1821)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his refusal to get involved in political\n                     questions, favoring a complete separation of\n                     church and state, as does the Lutheran Church and\n                     the Society for the Promotion of Christian\n                     Union\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eRequest for a subscription for a church\n                     proposal (1805); his acknowledgement of the\n                     influence of Henkel on the writing of a small book\n                     by Helmuth (1817); the cessation of the The\n                     Evangelical Magazine and his recommendation of\n                     Pastor Plitt's new magazine (1820)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003earrival in Point Pleasant and his great\n                     difficulty in learning German\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere a list of articles that he wants him to get\n                     for him, the isolation of their home from society,\n                     Ambrose's success in selling medicines and books\n                     on commission, the success of other businessmen,\n                     the desire of the German people to educate their\n                     children, his neighbors desire for the Henkel\n                     family to erect a post office, store, and school\n                     located at the crossroads at Wood's Ferry, Green\n                     County, Tennessee; his regret that Samuel will not\n                     visit soon, his hopes of finishing his studies so\n                     he might be a candidate for the position at the\n                     New Market Academy, his \"medical practice,\" the\n                     need of copies of the Concordia and other\n                     books\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his criticism of Professor Samuel\n                     Schmucker's Popular Theology because of its\n                     deviation from the fundamental doctrines of the\n                     Lutheran Church and the General Synod, the birth\n                     of his son Casper Coiner Henkel, and and Rev.\n                     Charles Henkel's translation of the Augustan\n                     Confession (1835); the republication of the works\n                     of David Henkel, and the impracticality of using\n                     agents to sell their books (1836); a strange\n                     medical case (1843); a request that the son of\n                     Hannah Stirewalt be admitted to the University of\n                     Virginia (1848); the translation of the Book of\n                     Concord (1849); the Book of Concord about to be\n                     bound, and his annoyance with the teaching of\n                     Professor Schmucker (1851); and recommendations to\n                     the Tennessee Synod meeting in 1857.\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his medical studies in Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere family news\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eoffer of this bookseller to send a catalog of\n                     medical books, his plans to travel to Europe in\n                     eight weeks and his offer to visit friends and\n                     acquaintances of Solomon Henkel\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere the salary for a minister at New Market\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere a gift from her mother\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003elist of subscribers for Henkel Press Song Book\n                     in Pendleton and Hardy Counties\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003equestions re content of the catechism, symptoms\n                     of his sick wife, praise of Paul Henkel's work in\n                     Ohio, possibility of moving to Brush Creek Church,\n                     Highland County\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere request to study medical practice with\n                     him\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eland transaction in the area of Salisbury,\n                     North Carolina, with the signatures of witnesses\n                     (1805) and questions re payment for land\n                     (1806)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest to engrave the plates for Baron\n                     Steuben's \"Regulations for the Order and\n                     Discipline of the Troops of the United States,\"\n                     with sample plates (formerly) enclosed, and\n                     immediate reply needed\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere a letter possibly mailed to New Market,\n                     Virginia by mistake\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eproposal to sell Henkel Press ABC books in\n                     Philadelphia by means of subscriptions\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for books, especially the new ABC book\n                     (1808 Apr 9); note that the ABC books are selling\n                     well, request's Helmuth's Spelling Book and\n                     medical advice (1809 Apr 23); list of subcribers\n                     for 170 Song Books (1809 Dec 16); two pages of\n                     brief Biblical interpretations, and more\n                     subscribers for Song Books (1810 Feb 10); request\n                     that Paul Henkel come to North Carolina to help\n                     Pastor Schober with difficulties in his\n                     congregation (1810 Sep 5); demand for the Song\n                     Book and ABC books, intention of traveling to\n                     Kentucky and Ohio and visiting New Market on his\n                     return, and his work on a Children's Book (1811\n                     Mar 27); description of trip to Ohio, his travels\n                     through Tennessee and Kentucky, the great influx\n                     of Baptists in Ohio, the need for both German and\n                     English Catechisms, Song Books, and ABC books, and\n                     the need for Paul Henkel in Ohio (1811 Aug 27);\n                     his return from Ohio, translation work on \"Ein\n                     Briefwechsel die Methodisten betreffend\" (1811 Dec\n                     16); need for more books translated into English,\n                     plans another trip with Paul Henkel to Ohio, and\n                     worries re the War and conscription (1812 Jun 13);\n                     and his desire to travel but not teach school\n                     children, difficulties in North Carolina re the\n                     Song Books and Catechism, hints of a split among\n                     congregations (1813 Jan 4)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003elist of officers and elders in Bottetourt\n                     County (1809); and request for the name and\n                     address of the present secretary of the German\n                     Evangelical Ministry (Ministerium)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ereport re steam driven printing presses in New\n                     York and Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for English Catechisms, also Conference\n                     Reports (1816); account of books and difficulties\n                     in selling books (1817); good reception of the new\n                     ABC books in Tennessee (1818)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003etroubles re the survival of the German\n                     [language], and good reception of the new ABC\n                     books\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere arrangements to purchase books for the\n                     brethren in North Carolina\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003esynodical difficulties in North and South\n                     Carolina\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eadvice re cancer cure using an arsenic\n                     solution, hydrophobia, recently acquired books for\n                     sale, book store started by Muhlenberg and his\n                     source for books, his interest in medicinal plants\n                     and names of plant dealers, Dr. John Brickel and\n                     Fr. Dahlman (1805); advice concerning herbs, and a\n                     list of eleven books with their prices sent to New\n                     Market (1806); financial accounts concerning Mr.\n                     Etter, Michael Lohr, and Heinrich Busching, and\n                     complaints re bills (1807)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for medicine for a pastor's wife and a\n                     description of her symptoms\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003einability to sell books and his desire to\n                     return the 150 small books\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ereference to previous letters, collection of\n                     bills, and the Bank of Alexandria\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ereport of his position as a teacher in\n                     Franconia Township near Philadelphia, request for\n                     twelve dozen ABC Books and a dozen other books\n                     (1811); and lack of a bill with the books received\n                     from the Henkels (1812)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ethe health of her son\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for tobacco seeds from Virginia with\n                     instructions for planting, in return for seeds of\n                     European plants recently bought abroad\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erequest for German-English and English-German\n                     dictionaries (1816 Apr 2); thankfulness for the\n                     books and gratitude for Solomon Henkel's work in\n                     the Church (1816 Sep 30); receipt of box of books\n                     in Christiansburg (1818 Sep 17); return of two\n                     damaged books (1818 Sep 28); difficult time to\n                     sell books (1821 Apr 8)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ereference to a delivery of a package with\n                     newspapers or pamphlets and the need for\n                     subscribers\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere an order of books\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ethe need for Song Books and a misunderstanding\n                     re Special Conference attendance\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his marriage to Susan Koiner (1832) and\n                     other family news\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere renting a plantation managed by Henkel and\n                     owned by Casper Koiner\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his financial affairs, the settling of a\n                     debt in Virginia owed to James and Alexander Wray,\n                     the interest due on the bonds made out to Samuel\n                     Henkel, and settling a debt in Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003eBook Society wants to sell Shakespeare's works\n                     (22 volumes) for $ 9.00, the Collected Works of\n                     the King of Prussia (15 volumes) for $ 6.00, and\n                     Stiller's Heimweh for $ 5.00 (180[7] Jul 20);\n                     complaints about lack of correspondence and\n                     uncertainty of whether Henkel received the money\n                     (1808 Oct 17); receipt of newspaper and desire to\n                     receive copies of new pamphlets and books printed\n                     in New Market (1809 Apr 2); misunderstanding re\n                     the political views expressed by the writer and\n                     made public by Henkel, Republicans and Federalists\n                     are friends and calls the Democrats and Torys\n                     enemies of freedom (1809 Apr 15); announcement of\n                     a possible move to York, plans to preach in\n                     Woodstock, Shenandoah County, the first of August\n                     (1809 Jun 9); excerpts of \"Protocols of the\n                     Lutheran Synod,\" Philadelphia, permission for Paul\n                     Henkel to do missionary work in Kentucky,\n                     Tennessee, Ohio, and Virginia, advice to Lutheran\n                     ministers to avoid camp meetings, and request for\n                     Paul Henkel's travel diary (1811 Jun 27); excerpts\n                     of Paul Henkel's missionary activities in South\n                     Carolina to be published by Mr. Helmuth in The\n                     Evangelical Magazine which needs 500 new\n                     subscribers to get started (1811 Aug 27); praises\n                     several Henkel publications (1812 Jan 11); remarks\n                     re The Evangelical Magazine and books ordered\n                     (1812 Apr 1); belief that the printing of the new\n                     Song Book should have been financially aided by\n                     the Synod (1812 Oct 17); business account and\n                     advice to David Henkel to enter the ministry (1812\n                     Dec 18); possibility that Pastor Carpenter may go\n                     to Kentucky, and worries over possible victory by\n                     Napoleon Bonaparte (1813 Dec 3); Synodical\n                     expenses for Paul Henkel (1814 Jun 15); The\n                     Evangelical Magazine will be published yearly, and\n                     rejoicing re Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall (1814\n                     Jul 23); accounts of [The Evangelical Magazine]\n                     taken care of by Pastor Muhlenberg in Reading\n                     (1817 Jun 11); asks if anyone in the area is a\n                     subscriber to the second part of Georg Schmucker's\n                     Prophetic History (1818 Dec 30); enclosure of a\n                     new children's book requested by Dr. Helmuth (1819\n                     Apr 27); and acknowledgement of a letter (1821 Aug\n                     31)\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003erumors of a Henkel Press business to be\n                     established in Lincolntown, North Carolina, and\n                     non-receipt of Honig Tropfen\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere the need for printer's ink\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere the birth of a son, William Bentin, to [his\n                     wife ?] Jane, other family news, and the bonds of\n                     Jacob Savage\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his problems with his uncle over the use of\n                     a farm\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere Jacob Savage's notes\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere his duties as Postmaster at New Market\u003c/p\u003e\n            ","\u003cp\u003ere collecting on his account\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ere the payment of some bonds and other business\n                  matters\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["SCOPE AND CONTENT"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This addition to the papers of the \n         Henkel familyof \n         New Market, Virginia, consists of ca. 475\n         items (4 Hollinger boxes, ca. 2 linear feet), 1805-1941, and\n         contains correspondence, business and legal papers,\n         genealogical material, account books, photographs, notes,\n         block cuts, subscription lists, minute books, printed\n         material, and manuscripts.","The nineteenth century correspondents of the \n         Henkel familyare listed alphabetically in\n         the folder listing section of this guide beginning on page\n         five with a brief note concerning the content of the letters.\n         Mr. \n         John G. Stewart, retired professor of \n         James Madison University, has supplied\n         notes concerning the content of those letters in German. Most\n         of the correspondence was addressed to Dr. \n         Solomon Henkeland Dr. \n         Samuel G. Henkel.","The correspondence of the \n         Henkel Family Associationcontains the\n         following topics: a discussion about the inscriptions on the \n         Hinkle Fortmonument and the memorial for \n         John Justus Henckelwith notes on the\n         history of \n         Hinkle's Fortand \n         John Justus Henckel(1935 Aug 21); remarks\n         concerning \n         Christina Hinkleand \n         Isaac Harmonupon the unveiling of the\n         monument to \n         John Justus Henckelby \n         J.W. Harmonof \n         Parsons, West Virginia(1937 Jan 25); \n         Jacob Henkel's property in \n         West Virginia(1937 Sep 20); information\n         regarding \n         Angeline Millerand \n         Adam Sheets(1940 Jan 6); and \n         Jacob Hinkle, son of \n         George Rudolphus Hinkle(1940 Jan 11).","Some items in the business and legal papers include a\n         memorandum of type to be secured in \n         Baltimore(1826 Oct 15); the attempt to\n         purchase a \"boalting cloth No. 8\" for use in \n         John Coiner's flour mill (1834 Jun 3); a\n         fine for \n         Samuel G. Henkel's non-attendance at the\n         regimental muster in Captain Neff's Company (1839); plans for \n         Godfred Hinkle's barn (1840 Feb 20); a \n         Land Office TreasuryWarrant # 18063 to \n         Samuel G. Henkelfor 590 acres (1849 Nov\n         26); \n         Solomon Henkel's memorandum book with\n         notes for the settling of his estate (1856 Feb 28); a bill of\n         type to be secured in \n         Baltimoreat Spaldings (1837 Apr 26);\n         typed copies of \n         Henkel familyland patents, surveys, and\n         deeds in \n         Virginiaand \n         West Virginia(n.d.).","Genealogical materials include a \n         Conrad familyand \n         Keyser familynotebook (1917); a \"family\n         record of Henkel Stock\" as copied by Dr. \n         C.C. Henkeland Rev. \n         D.M. Henkel, partially related by Dr. \n         Solomon Henkel(n.d.); and miscellaneous\n         notes and manuscripts concerning the \n         Henkel family.","Miscellaneous papers contains notes about Rev. Reck's\n         sermons taken by [ \n         Samuel G. Henkel] (1825); a phrenological\n         analysis of the head of \n         Samuel G. Henkel(1841 Apr 2); the\n         marriage certificate of \n         Gideon Koinerand \n         Rebecca M. Henkel(1853 Nov 14); a\n         qualitative analysis of a sample of water made by \n         University of VirginiaProfessor \n         J.W. Mallet(1892 Oct 15); the historical\n         address \"One Army of the Living God\" given before the \n         Henkel Memorial Associationin \n         Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, concerning\n         the contributions of the \n         Henkel Family(1917); minutes of the \n         Henkel Memorial Association(n.d.); and an\n         engraving of a printing press patented by \n         Peter Smithand manufactured by \n         Robert Hoe and Company, \n         New York(n.d.).","Also present are three bound volumes of records pertaining\n         to the \n         New Market Academy, including minutes,\n         subscription lists, resignation letters of its professors, and\n         other loose material found in the volumes, 1838-1941. Dr. \n         Solomon Henkelwas one of the original\n         Trustees appointed on February 21, 1817, when the \n         New Market Academywas incorporated. The \n         Henkel familyhas been represented on the \n         Board of Trustees of the New Market\n         Academythroughout its history by such men as \n         Samuel G. Henkeland \n         C.C. Henkel.","Photographs include those of Dr. [ \n         Casper Henkel]; \n         Barbara Teter Henkel; a page from the\n         diary of Rev. \n         H.M. Muhlenbergconcerning Rev. \n         Anthony Jacob Henkel; the \n         Hinkle Fortbuilt by \n         Justus Henckel; two houses built by \n         Abraham Henckel; the memorial monument to\n         John Justus Henckel, Sr.; sons of Dr. \n         Solomon Henkel; Rev. \n         Paul Henkeland his wife, \n         Elizabeth Nagley Henkel; and the sons of\n         Rev. \n         Paul Henkel.","Most of the printed material is described in the folder\n         listing part of this guide.","* indicates some or all documents are in\n                  German","re his absence in Germany and his instructions\n                     that his mail be sent to Solomon Henkel where he\n                     will pick it up on his return to the United\n                     States","re his need of medical supplies as he is a\n                     physician","re financial provision for his aunt, Mrs.\n                     Duff","re his preparations for sailing to\n                     California","re the improvements in his health, rumors of\n                     the death of Solomon Henkel, and a fire engine for\n                     sale","re arrangements for a cataract operation","re Mr. Yeager's misrepresentation of his\n                     statements concerning the Tennessee Synod in The\n                     Observer","re his supply of medical instruments and models\n                     with their cost","his letters include: a list of elders and\n                     officers of the Hebron Church, Madison County\n                     (1809 Jun); his difficulties in attending Special\n                     Conference, books sent for sale, and a discussion\n                     of methods of payment (1809 Sep 14); his trip to\n                     Ohio, and his request to Paul or Phillip Henkel to\n                     preach in his church and also at the Reformed\n                     Church (1810 Aug 22); acknowledgement of the\n                     receipt of some medicine and mention of the good\n                     acceptance of the Song Book by the congregation\n                     (1811 Mar 9); difficulties in obtaining Conference\n                     Reports and description of his sickness (1811 Apr\n                     1); approval of new Catechism, and requests\n                     information re next Special Conference (1812 Feb\n                     3); discussion of the possibility of the Henkel\n                     Press printing Arndt's \"Wahres Christenthum\" in\n                     English (1812 Apr 8); necessity of a personal\n                     meeting with Paul Henkel (1812 Sep 11); and\n                     mention of Solomon Henkel as agent for Johann\n                     Gruber in Hagerstown, and The Evangelical Magazine\n                     printed in Philadelphia (1813 Mar 8).","re money matters and the purchase of a\n                     horse","re the formation of a new Synod, testimonial\n                     for Rev. J. Killian, and the need for attention to\n                     the literary qualifications for aspiring young\n                     ministers","re his order for a Cycl[opedia]","re money sent to the post office and the\n                     failing health of all three of her brothers,\n                     Martin, David, and Simon","difficulties re taxes and land formerly owned\n                     by Johannes Henkel (1812 Sep 20); and questions re\n                     sale of land and request for advice (1816 May\n                     16)","death of two of his sons due to dysentery, wife\n                     and slave both in serious condition (Feb 16) and\n                     the introduction of English Song Books in Madison\n                     County (Jul 22)","request for books and a proposal for\n                     transporting them (1806 Oct 11); his interest in\n                     subscription to a New Market newspaper and\n                     detailed description of a deadly disease on the\n                     rampage in North Carolina (1807 Oct 11); while in\n                     Staunton sends announcement that he wishes to\n                     preach in New Market on June 25 th (1815 Jun\n                     20)","difficulties in recruiting preachers, the need\n                     for outsiders to come to [South Carolina ?], and\n                     business matters","re an order for books about Martin Luther, the\n                     Augsburg Confession, Catechisms, and hymn books in\n                     English and German to be sent to Saluda, S.C.,\n                     inroads made by other denominations in South\n                     Carolina and David Henkel's work there","re expressions of his love","request for books including two dozen\n                     catechisms for teaching purposes","difficulties in attending the Special\n                     Conference in New Market because of distance and\n                     pastoral duties (1807 Sep 12); a list of officers,\n                     Lutheran and Reformed, and the location of\n                     churches in Wythe, Montgomery, and Greenbriar\n                     Counties (1809 Oct 18); receipt of catechisms and\n                     their success as a teaching tool (1809 Oct);\n                     detailed and lengthy manuscript of a Lutheran\n                     Catechism, and its differences with Reformed\n                     beliefs (1810 Dec 22); explanation and commentary\n                     re Catechism (1811 Feb 16); suggestions re the new\n                     Lutheran Catechism (1811 Jul 30); urgent request\n                     for more English Catechisms, saying more than 200\n                     could be sold, if available, and interest in\n                     applying for Pastor Carpenter's job in Madison\n                     County (1814 Apr 14); request for more English\n                     Catechisms (1819 Sep 14); account of books (1820\n                     Feb 5); requests more first edition catechisms,\n                     recommends the bank notes from the Union Bank of\n                     Alexandria or the North Carolina Treasury bills\n                     for paying notes (1820 Apr 1); requests\n                     clarification of his account (1820 Jun 24);\n                     requests for more catechisms, concern with his\n                     book account and mention of the South Carolina\n                     State Bank (1821 Sep 1; 1822 Jun 3 Aug 4; \u0026\n                     Dec 18); warning about a so-called preacher by the\n                     name of Miller, known for his drinking and\n                     carousing, [who ?] will be in New Market soon and\n                     will want to buy a horse to ride back to\n                     Pennsylvania (1823 Jan 24).","money transactions with Henkel's brother-in-law\n                     Miller in Winchester (1819 Jan 19); and requests\n                     for Henkel to mediate between two parties re land\n                     transactions (1822 Dec 23)","re family news","request to expedite the binding of the Song\n                     Books as he will be in New Market on the following\n                     Saturday","difficulties in receiving mail (1812 Jun\n                     18)","transaction involving the trading of 2/6 nails\n                     for Song Books in New Market","lengthy remarks re the new Catechism and his\n                     own personal observations","J.O. Kramer of Maytown, North Carolina, has two\n                     dozen copies of a book which Henkel wants (Jul\n                     30); reference to previous letter and the sale of\n                     books (Sep 4); acknowlegement of the receipt of\n                     books (Nov 14)","requests for German catechisms","request for German Bible (1815 Dec 5); and\n                     business transactions re books (1816 Dec 8)","account of books (1810) and book transactions\n                     and a list of subscribers to a book (1821)","re his refusal to get involved in political\n                     questions, favoring a complete separation of\n                     church and state, as does the Lutheran Church and\n                     the Society for the Promotion of Christian\n                     Union","Request for a subscription for a church\n                     proposal (1805); his acknowledgement of the\n                     influence of Henkel on the writing of a small book\n                     by Helmuth (1817); the cessation of the The\n                     Evangelical Magazine and his recommendation of\n                     Pastor Plitt's new magazine (1820)","arrival in Point Pleasant and his great\n                     difficulty in learning German","re a list of articles that he wants him to get\n                     for him, the isolation of their home from society,\n                     Ambrose's success in selling medicines and books\n                     on commission, the success of other businessmen,\n                     the desire of the German people to educate their\n                     children, his neighbors desire for the Henkel\n                     family to erect a post office, store, and school\n                     located at the crossroads at Wood's Ferry, Green\n                     County, Tennessee; his regret that Samuel will not\n                     visit soon, his hopes of finishing his studies so\n                     he might be a candidate for the position at the\n                     New Market Academy, his \"medical practice,\" the\n                     need of copies of the Concordia and other\n                     books","re his criticism of Professor Samuel\n                     Schmucker's Popular Theology because of its\n                     deviation from the fundamental doctrines of the\n                     Lutheran Church and the General Synod, the birth\n                     of his son Casper Coiner Henkel, and and Rev.\n                     Charles Henkel's translation of the Augustan\n                     Confession (1835); the republication of the works\n                     of David Henkel, and the impracticality of using\n                     agents to sell their books (1836); a strange\n                     medical case (1843); a request that the son of\n                     Hannah Stirewalt be admitted to the University of\n                     Virginia (1848); the translation of the Book of\n                     Concord (1849); the Book of Concord about to be\n                     bound, and his annoyance with the teaching of\n                     Professor Schmucker (1851); and recommendations to\n                     the Tennessee Synod meeting in 1857.","re his medical studies in Philadelphia","re family news","offer of this bookseller to send a catalog of\n                     medical books, his plans to travel to Europe in\n                     eight weeks and his offer to visit friends and\n                     acquaintances of Solomon Henkel","re the salary for a minister at New Market","re a gift from her mother","list of subscribers for Henkel Press Song Book\n                     in Pendleton and Hardy Counties","questions re content of the catechism, symptoms\n                     of his sick wife, praise of Paul Henkel's work in\n                     Ohio, possibility of moving to Brush Creek Church,\n                     Highland County","re request to study medical practice with\n                     him","land transaction in the area of Salisbury,\n                     North Carolina, with the signatures of witnesses\n                     (1805) and questions re payment for land\n                     (1806)","request to engrave the plates for Baron\n                     Steuben's \"Regulations for the Order and\n                     Discipline of the Troops of the United States,\"\n                     with sample plates (formerly) enclosed, and\n                     immediate reply needed","re a letter possibly mailed to New Market,\n                     Virginia by mistake","proposal to sell Henkel Press ABC books in\n                     Philadelphia by means of subscriptions","request for books, especially the new ABC book\n                     (1808 Apr 9); note that the ABC books are selling\n                     well, request's Helmuth's Spelling Book and\n                     medical advice (1809 Apr 23); list of subcribers\n                     for 170 Song Books (1809 Dec 16); two pages of\n                     brief Biblical interpretations, and more\n                     subscribers for Song Books (1810 Feb 10); request\n                     that Paul Henkel come to North Carolina to help\n                     Pastor Schober with difficulties in his\n                     congregation (1810 Sep 5); demand for the Song\n                     Book and ABC books, intention of traveling to\n                     Kentucky and Ohio and visiting New Market on his\n                     return, and his work on a Children's Book (1811\n                     Mar 27); description of trip to Ohio, his travels\n                     through Tennessee and Kentucky, the great influx\n                     of Baptists in Ohio, the need for both German and\n                     English Catechisms, Song Books, and ABC books, and\n                     the need for Paul Henkel in Ohio (1811 Aug 27);\n                     his return from Ohio, translation work on \"Ein\n                     Briefwechsel die Methodisten betreffend\" (1811 Dec\n                     16); need for more books translated into English,\n                     plans another trip with Paul Henkel to Ohio, and\n                     worries re the War and conscription (1812 Jun 13);\n                     and his desire to travel but not teach school\n                     children, difficulties in North Carolina re the\n                     Song Books and Catechism, hints of a split among\n                     congregations (1813 Jan 4)","list of officers and elders in Bottetourt\n                     County (1809); and request for the name and\n                     address of the present secretary of the German\n                     Evangelical Ministry (Ministerium)","report re steam driven printing presses in New\n                     York and Philadelphia","request for English Catechisms, also Conference\n                     Reports (1816); account of books and difficulties\n                     in selling books (1817); good reception of the new\n                     ABC books in Tennessee (1818)","troubles re the survival of the German\n                     [language], and good reception of the new ABC\n                     books","re arrangements to purchase books for the\n                     brethren in North Carolina","synodical difficulties in North and South\n                     Carolina","advice re cancer cure using an arsenic\n                     solution, hydrophobia, recently acquired books for\n                     sale, book store started by Muhlenberg and his\n                     source for books, his interest in medicinal plants\n                     and names of plant dealers, Dr. John Brickel and\n                     Fr. Dahlman (1805); advice concerning herbs, and a\n                     list of eleven books with their prices sent to New\n                     Market (1806); financial accounts concerning Mr.\n                     Etter, Michael Lohr, and Heinrich Busching, and\n                     complaints re bills (1807)","request for medicine for a pastor's wife and a\n                     description of her symptoms","inability to sell books and his desire to\n                     return the 150 small books","reference to previous letters, collection of\n                     bills, and the Bank of Alexandria","report of his position as a teacher in\n                     Franconia Township near Philadelphia, request for\n                     twelve dozen ABC Books and a dozen other books\n                     (1811); and lack of a bill with the books received\n                     from the Henkels (1812)","the health of her son","request for tobacco seeds from Virginia with\n                     instructions for planting, in return for seeds of\n                     European plants recently bought abroad","request for German-English and English-German\n                     dictionaries (1816 Apr 2); thankfulness for the\n                     books and gratitude for Solomon Henkel's work in\n                     the Church (1816 Sep 30); receipt of box of books\n                     in Christiansburg (1818 Sep 17); return of two\n                     damaged books (1818 Sep 28); difficult time to\n                     sell books (1821 Apr 8)","reference to a delivery of a package with\n                     newspapers or pamphlets and the need for\n                     subscribers","re an order of books","the need for Song Books and a misunderstanding\n                     re Special Conference attendance","re his marriage to Susan Koiner (1832) and\n                     other family news","re renting a plantation managed by Henkel and\n                     owned by Casper Koiner","re his financial affairs, the settling of a\n                     debt in Virginia owed to James and Alexander Wray,\n                     the interest due on the bonds made out to Samuel\n                     Henkel, and settling a debt in Philadelphia","Book Society wants to sell Shakespeare's works\n                     (22 volumes) for $ 9.00, the Collected Works of\n                     the King of Prussia (15 volumes) for $ 6.00, and\n                     Stiller's Heimweh for $ 5.00 (180[7] Jul 20);\n                     complaints about lack of correspondence and\n                     uncertainty of whether Henkel received the money\n                     (1808 Oct 17); receipt of newspaper and desire to\n                     receive copies of new pamphlets and books printed\n                     in New Market (1809 Apr 2); misunderstanding re\n                     the political views expressed by the writer and\n                     made public by Henkel, Republicans and Federalists\n                     are friends and calls the Democrats and Torys\n                     enemies of freedom (1809 Apr 15); announcement of\n                     a possible move to York, plans to preach in\n                     Woodstock, Shenandoah County, the first of August\n                     (1809 Jun 9); excerpts of \"Protocols of the\n                     Lutheran Synod,\" Philadelphia, permission for Paul\n                     Henkel to do missionary work in Kentucky,\n                     Tennessee, Ohio, and Virginia, advice to Lutheran\n                     ministers to avoid camp meetings, and request for\n                     Paul Henkel's travel diary (1811 Jun 27); excerpts\n                     of Paul Henkel's missionary activities in South\n                     Carolina to be published by Mr. Helmuth in The\n                     Evangelical Magazine which needs 500 new\n                     subscribers to get started (1811 Aug 27); praises\n                     several Henkel publications (1812 Jan 11); remarks\n                     re The Evangelical Magazine and books ordered\n                     (1812 Apr 1); belief that the printing of the new\n                     Song Book should have been financially aided by\n                     the Synod (1812 Oct 17); business account and\n                     advice to David Henkel to enter the ministry (1812\n                     Dec 18); possibility that Pastor Carpenter may go\n                     to Kentucky, and worries over possible victory by\n                     Napoleon Bonaparte (1813 Dec 3); Synodical\n                     expenses for Paul Henkel (1814 Jun 15); The\n                     Evangelical Magazine will be published yearly, and\n                     rejoicing re Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall (1814\n                     Jul 23); 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restrictions.","JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS","by \n          John Carl Miller","When \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.","A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"collection_ssim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["38-135"],"unitid_tesim":["38-135"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Laura Ingram"],"creator_ssim":["Laura Ingram"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was purchased by the Library in\n            1922."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of ca. 1000\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n          JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eby \n          John Carl Miller \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis is the curious story of how it happened.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eInterest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n        \u003cblockquote\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003c/blockquote\u003e\n      \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePrivate tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOn Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBy 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSuch, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the two bound volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eShortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWord of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eStill another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLetters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOne can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eA number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS","by \n          John Carl Miller","When \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSecond Edition by John E. Reilly\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of John Carl Miller\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship.\u003c/title\u003e Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia.\u003c/title\u003e This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBuilding Poe Biography,\u003c/title\u003e was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's Helen Remembers,\u003c/title\u003e appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eCount Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBaltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiven to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 54.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56-57.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 73-75.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 81-82\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 83-85.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 150-151.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 163-166.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 299-300.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe True Story of Edgar Allan Poe,\u003c/title\u003e p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 315.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 318.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eAutograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors,\u003c/title\u003e 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Literati of New York City.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 349-350.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 350-351.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 391-398.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 409-411.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 413-414.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 441.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWrites of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStill in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 461-462.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRedfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026amp; \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026amp; they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026amp; saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcademy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal;\u003c/title\u003e\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHistory of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCould Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePowell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe did not die drunk, as the world believes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eKey has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMorison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eResponds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAs a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026amp; amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAt Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSince receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026amp; character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOnly the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAll that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAlthough often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLocker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePeterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJudge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026amp;\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Poe family is mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGarnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eI. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 397.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEuget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRoden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopied from the Curio, January-February 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBeecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThat stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eD'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDoes Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNo picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eShe sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eModelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eForwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem has been made into a booklet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNew York Evening Mirror.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn adverse review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEditor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy signed by Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWriter furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSame as Item 560.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eClarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDespite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFunds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eP. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTwo sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMarvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAddressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProgram of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life and work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe and of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSatirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. A biographical-critical essay.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTen parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e See Item 616.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCriticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMessrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortion of an article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical sketch.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRefuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParagraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBriggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTakes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA caustic review of the 4th edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDenies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, favorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn office boy in the offices of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe edition will appear in three volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGeorge denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated heavily by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThough generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExtract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCommendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJoint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePlans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAsks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable comments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEllis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRaises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSuggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAttributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMajor \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePresentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGenerally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDefensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStriking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMinor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMenchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026amp; Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCritical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eControversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eScholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHighly laudatory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReplying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInfers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFeature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCaustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eList of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Centennial article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. On the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWas it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBurton's Gentleman's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraham's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWeekly Mirror,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e\n                  and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eDemocratic Review.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWith two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePolitely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDeclares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n            \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1053,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:32:33.870Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00220_c01_c169"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1388_c02_c01_c09","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"W[illiam] H. 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Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","The collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Accession 2001.35 addition filed in Box 1.","Joseph Eggleston Johnston was a general in the Confederate Army, CSA. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Any materials produced during the Civil War (Box 1, Folder 4) can only be viewed on microfilm.  Also, boxes 4-6 can only be viewed on microfilm. When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","Processed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1981. Box and folder list compiled by Meredith Ramey, SCRC staff, in March 2012.","Related collections are Robert Morton Hughes Papers, Robert William Hughes Papers and John B. Floyd Papers, College of William and Mary.","Papers of Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. General during the American Civil War, including correspondence which reflect his long military career and interest in his nephews, John Warfield Johnston and John Preston Johnston.","The papers include a diary, 1857, of Johnston's survey of the southern boundary of Kansas and eighteen volumes of Civil War dispatches and telegrams.","The collection also includes a diary, 1 May-31 July 1864, of Thomas B. Mackall; letters received by Louis McLane (including letters from Andrew Jackson and Lafayette) and typescripts of letters by Eliza Johnston Hughes.","Subjects concern Braxton Bragg, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, William Joseph Hardee, George Ben Johnston, and the American Civil War (including the Atlanta Campaign of 1864). Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, Jubal Early, Thomas Tasker Gantt, Josiah Gorgas, Wade Hampton, D.H. Hill, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet and W.T. Sherman (General Order #18 of Johnston surrendering and giving terms to Sherman); as well as members of Johnston's family, Beverly R. Johnston, John Preston Johnston and John Warfield Johnston.","A list of books in the Rare Book Collection which were owned by Joseph E. Johnston is in Box 1. Accession 2001.35 addition filed in Box 1.","The Civil War dispatch and telegram books are available on microfilm for use in Swem Library or the microfilm may be requested via inter-library loan. The Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891, in Swem Library's microforms area is on 6 reels, call number E467.1 .J74 A2.","Discusses his mother's recent death. 2 pp. ALS.","Discusses a recent change [marriage to Ann Bernard] in his father's life which will make it less solitary; must decide by June whether to remain in the Army and choose the Infantry or the Artillery. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning the death of McLane's father, the office made vacant by his death, and the introduction of Mr. F. B. Ogden by this letter. 2 pp. LS.","Discusses the forces gathering for the coming Revolution [of 1830]. 1 p. ALS.","Concerning a strong interest and desire for prosperity for the United States. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerns procedure for the presentation of copies of publications of the Commissioners of Public Records to the United States. 3 pp. ADF and L.","Is not in love, though from time to time feels tenderness towards and interest in the appearance and conversation of a particular woman. 4 pp. ALS.","Is anxious to see \"those who remain\" [after the deaths of his father and brother]; saw John Preston \"at the university\"; comments on the matrimonial propensity of young people; is susceptible to the charms of so many women that they neutralize each other. 3 pp. ALS.","Discusses plans for Louisa's son John [W. Johnston], and the need for John to travel on his own; mentions various relatives he has seen and Jane's plans; missed seeing \"Mama in Richmond.\" 4 pp. ALS.","Had a miserable march through the country and is in quite a bad humor; describes foiled plans to go to Richmond; the weather has been as cold as a Virginia winter; gossip of Harrison [?] traveling to Augusta, [Ga.], to see a lady. 3 pp. ALS.","Is going back to Old Point Comfort, [Va.]; describes the \"delicious moonlight nights\" and the \"very pretty Indian girls.\" 2 pp. ALS.","Discussion of money matters; hopes to make a trip to Florida in the winter; talk of a horserace in which he lost $750.00; needs a horse for fox-hunting; cannot visit due to his [BRJ] \"bachelor\" state. 3 pp. ALS.","Is on his way to assist Gen[era]l Scott in the war against the Seminoles; describes his journey south; waiting for a steamboat to take them down the St. John's River, [Fla.]; describes the Army and gives the number of Indians to be estimated at about 3500, although he thinks that figure is exaggerated; soldiers complaining of having to boil and eat pork; heard from John that all of their Negroes had been sold and that all of the \"affairs\" were still unsettled; is saddened that Sam [a slave] was sold. 2 pp. ALS.","Gives his reasons for resigning; is now employed in the Top[ograophi]c Bureau; news of Edward and Webb separating, and Edward composing literary works - probably on the life of Patrick Henry; has heard of his [BRJ] \"matrimonial intentions\" and warns him not to be rash; wishes for him to meet some of the lovely ladies in Washington. 3 pp. ALS.","Appoints Mr. [John Preson] Johnston to the Military Academy, but cannot appoint Stephen J. Crockett, as regulations allow only one cadet per congressional district. 1 p. ALS.","Philosophical letter giving advice about writing letters, suffering through hard times and looking upon him [JEJ] as a brother, not a uncle. 3 pp. ALS.","Tells of upcoming trips to Elizabeth Town, N.J., to meet General Scott at Head Quarters, then on to Trenton, and then to Washington, [D.C.]. he will not, however, be able to stop to visit him [JPJ] due to troop movements; gives travel instructions and descriptions of a new black trunk for him. 3 pp. ALS.","I sorry, but cannot send any money because he doesn't have any; gives more detailed travel instructions for Pres to follow on his trip from Washington, through Baltimore, and on to Philadelphia and Trenton, including the use of a steamboat. 2 pp, ALS,","Gives instructions as to where and how he will receive some money from a friend of his [JEJ] in Washington. 1 p. ALS","Is glad he is enjoying school so much, and encourages him \"to make a good use of the faculties nature has given...\"; hopes to visit in the latter part of October; discusses a survey of an area east of the St. Regis which will keep him busy outside until the weather turns cool; the President and the Sec. of War have visited, and \"peace and tranquility are restored\"; tell Lizzie to write. 3 pp. ALS. including typescript, 3 pp.","Is happy he has become so \"naturalized\" to school, but cautions him not to rely too heavily on his present knowledge of mathematics; he [JPJ] should feel lucky that his Uncle Bev wrote to him, as he never writes to anyone; will stop by and see him in 10 days, but only for a few hours, as neither have much time; has received accounts of Harvey Michele's \"Texas Scheme\" from cousin John; other family news. 3 pp. ALS.","Was disappointed to find that Lizzie was still at Burke's Garden, and not in school -- hopes that will be taken care of soon; news of visit to Edward's farm and his horse \"Tigertail\"; comments on disposition and application of JPJ. 2 pp, ALS.","Permission for J[ohn] P[reston] Johnstone [sic] to move from one barracks room to another. Signed also by R. Delarfield, Supt. of M.A., and by J. Hayfoot. 1 p. DS.","Is on his way back to Washington from Florida; has had gratifying accounts of Pres in school, and urges him [BRJ] to write him; speaks lovingly of Pres and gives Mrs. Carrington much of the credit for his [JPJ] upbringing; discussion of Eliza and her education, or lack thereof; wants family new. 3 pp. ALS.","Saw Professor Capt. Blis who gave a satisfying account of his progress at school; has just returned from southern Florida where he spent the winter; comments on the state of military affairs in that territory and a bill before Congress to raise additional forces to fight in the Seminole War; gives advice and to read the greats authors and Latin \"in the original\" if there is spare time. 3 pp. ALS.","Gives an explanation of why he could not visit him, and expresses gratification and pride in all of his accomplishments; is located in the country between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, surveying the land for possible fortification; comments on the abundance of trout and whitefish, and how much Uncle Edward would enjoy fishing there. 3 pp. ALS.","Will not be going to Florida for the winter; Edward is considering selling his land and settling in Abingdon, Lynchburg, or Columbia; they had a \"preserving\" snow storm on the 18th, which signaled the beginning of winter; there is a truce in Florida now, and a group of Seminole chiefs, including Sam Jones, wild Cat, and Tiger Tail are traveling to Washington to make the final arrangements; hopes that Lizzie will be sent to Washington instead of Richmond, and comments that he would like her to know that he has not proposed to anyone, just like the song \"I Don't Propose.\" 2 pp. ALS.","1 p. Ms. Including Xcy of Ms. 1 p.","Just returned from an extended visit to the Sabine, and is concerned because he has not heard from him in a while. 1 p. ALS.","Will be spending the summer in Mackinac, instructions to get any clothing needed from Sam[uel] Frost, a merchant tailor in New York, [N.Y.], and to have them charged to his [JEJ] bill. 1 p. ALS.","A school friend of JPJ's, Thompson Mason, will be coming soon, and JEJ wishes him to be welcomed and treated well, and also his mother; is still on his journey to Lake Michigan, and is not sure when he will be back by West Point; hopes he [JPJ] is enjoying his furlough, and wishes for him to stop and see Col. Preston, Mr. Hopkins, and Mrs. Merrick. 3 pp. ALS.","Gives his upcoming itinerary; news of his [JPJ] clothes being sent by the tailor, [Samuel] Frost. 1 p. ALS.","1 p. ANS.","Has heard about an epidemic at West Point and is anxious about his [JPJ] health; mention of a cadet Mason, near death and hopes that it is not his friend [Thompson Mason], has been in Buffalo about 15 days and may remain another month; is interested about news from Va. relatives. 1 p. ALS.","Consoles him [JPJ] about the lack of correspondence from his relatives; gives excuse of being ill for his lack of correspondence; tells of his great love for him and mentions also his love of a sweetheart; Cousin Tom's wedding has been postponed until the Fall; Lizzie is in Columbia and spends her free time at Cousin Margaret's home; gossip of a possible duel between Mr. [Henry A.] Wise and Mr. [Edward] Stanley [sic] Stanly; talk of Affghan [sic] war and the end of the Florida war [Seminole War]. 3 pp. ALS.","Mention of his [JPJ] court martial; praise of Gen[era]l Worth; some old family news. 2 pp. ALS.","Explains the lack of correspondence during the winter; discussion on his [JPJ] future, involving going into industry or remaining in the Army, giving pros and cons of each; had a pleasant trip to New Orleans, [La.]; comment about women being \"pleasant and attractive creatures, beyond denial,\" but only \"when one has nothing else to think of, or to excite him.\" 3 pp. ALS.","Will not be able to come to graduation due to detainment \"by authority\"; gives advice on selection fo a regiment or a corp; is on his way to the Northeast Boundary after Houlton, Maine. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning JEJ's recent marriage; sword is in safe keeping; and questions JEJ on future travel plans. 4 pp ALS.","Mentions many mutual friends in England, and Mrs. McLane's family. 4 pp. ALS. including a TCy of ALS. 1 p.","Asks him [JPJ] to obtain leave to come for a visit as he cannot leave; explains note to Lieut. Knowlton. 2 pp. ALS. Including ANS from J[oseph] E. Johnston, New York, [N.Y.], to [?] Knowlton, [West Point, N.Y.?], 15 November [18]45, asking a favor of lending JPJ some money so he may be able to visit him [JEJ]. 1 p.","Mentions friends, [?] May and Pike Graham, with army in Mexico and speaks of companies raised in Washington Co., Va., and vicinity. 3 pp. ALS.","Orders Lieut. J[ohn] P[reston] Johnston to detatched service and Lieut. R[ichard] H. L. Johnston to duty under him. 1 p. DS.","Letter of introduction for his son John Wickham Leigh. 1 p. ALS.","Mention of the President's [Millard Fillmore] message and the report of the General-in-Chief [of the Army?], and how it will affect the Top[ographica]l Corps; yearns for a promotion, and asks him to put in a good word for him; mentions he has 8 or 10 scars from battles with Indians; also suggests General [Winfield] Scott or General Dawson of Georgia for recommendations; asks for \"little Lissie's\" [Eliza (Johnston) Hughes] new husband's name. 2 pp. Pst. (From an original belonging to W[illia]m Armour, New York City, N.Y.)","7 pp. D.","Opinion confirming Joseph E. Johnston's rank as Brevet Colonel. 10 pp. DS.","Congratulations on Johnston's appointment as Quartermaster General of the Army. 1 p. ALS.","Concerns the Secession Convention held in Richmond. 3 pp. ALS.","1 item. See Oversize File.","Notifies Gorgas of a telegraphed dispatch regarding captured muskets. 1 p. ALS.","Reports that Col. [Nathan George] Evans engaged. most of the day yesterday in battle with the enemy, utilizing twelve regts. and five batteries, near the Potomac River; heavy casualties and 200 prisoners taken, as well as six field pieces. 1 p. ALS.","1 p. DS. See Oversize File.","List of killed, wounded, and missing in the battle of Ball's Bluff, [Va.], fought 21 Oct. 1861. 11 p. D.","1 p. DS. See Oversize File.","One letter written by General Joseph Eggleston Johnston of the Confederate Army to fellow General P. G. T. Beauregard, replying to the latter's proposed troop movement. The letter is dated January 14, 1862, and is sent from the Northern Virginia headquarters of the Confederate Army. A transcript of the letter and biographical information on General Johnston in also included.","1 p. ALS. Urges keeping the York River open to gunboats [two days prior to the Battle of Williamsburg]; Hill not to command his rear guard and to continue the fire after midnight; adds postscript \"I would like to have the vessels sunk.\"","Map. 1 item.","Agrees to send Capt. Mason and Lt. Col. Harvey to him as soon as possible; is pleased that he is \"again able to take the field.\" 1 p. ALS.","1 p. DS.","Acknowledges receipt of Dick's letter to Col. W. Hoffman, Comissary General of Prisoners, Washington, [D.C.], 5 March 1863, regarding sending of 150 citizen prisoners for exchange. [with extensive endorsements]. 4 pp. Cy of DS.","Lists 14 men and 11 women. 1 p. Cy of DC. Including Cy of D from F. A. Dick, Lt. Col. Prov[ost] Mar[shall] Gen[eral], 12 May 1863, listing 14 family members to be passed through the lines with their husbands and fathers. 1 p.","Sends message urging JEJ to report about the fall of Vicksburg at the Court of Enquiry at Montgomery, [Ala.]. 1 p. ALS.","1 p. PD.","1 p. PD.","Discussion of the transfer of Major Barton from Gen[era]l Pol's command to his, and the misuse of Army funds; strategic discussion of upcoming battle in March, the deterioration of their horses, and [U.S.] Grant taking advantage of Longstreet's poor artillery and driving him back into Va.; reminds him to secure all his papers at home as \"they will be very important to me after the war\"; description of transfer of family silver through Nicati [sic] [Nicketti Floyd Johnston?]. 2 pp. ALS.","Regrets losing him because of government orders; had high expectations for his help and from his expedition. 1 p. ALS.","\"Report of Gen[era]l Hood.\" 1 p. Incomplete.","Gen[era]l Cobb is to address the people tonight; gives opinion of how to regroup and states that \"you [JEJ] alone can bring back the old soldiers to their colors or engage other to join\"; describes feeling of bitterness for Mr. [Jefferson] Davis, and that his supporters say \"he had proved himself utterly incapable of conducting the war\"; talk of Lee's popularity waning also if he \"doesn't at once, show independence and pursue a course at least masked by being widely different from Mr. D[avis'], as well as people thinking that he [Lee] did not prevent him [JEJ] from being removed, not to mention not restoring him [JEJ] back.\" 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning statistics of men and supplies; and prefers to have a commader other than Gen. Bragg for he \"has made me a scapegoat.\" 2 pp. ALS.","1 p. DS. See Oversize File.","1 p. DS.","Table of the Return of the Effective Strength of the Army of Tennessee, listing numbers in Lee's Corps, Total Infantry, and Kanapanx's Battery. 1 p. DS.","Discusses President Lincoln's assassination in relation to the South's strength in the Civil War. 3 pp. ALS.","1 p. AMsS.","1 p. AMsS.","Is writing a narrative of the war, but has lost many of his papers, asks Cummings' opinions, especially on the subjects of campaigns in Tennessee in 1863 and Georgia in 1864. 3 pp. ALS.","1 p. PD.","Concerning the campaign in Georgia in 1864. Cy of LS. 23 pp. Including a Cy of Ms. written by J. C. Thompson, ca. 1861, and later published during the [Civil] War, entitled \"Gen. Johnston and Gen. Hood.\" 5 pp.","Instructions to send a trunk from Edward's adopted daughter to Peter at the first opportunity; contents are papers, possibly articles written for the newspaper he [Peter] published. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning the \"inaccuracy of your recollection of my course\" and an account of his recollections of the event [mentioned in an earlier letter]. 3 pp. ALS.","1 p. PD.","Sympathy note about the death of his son, Willie. 2 pp. ALS.","Asks for a letter of recommendation and introduction so he may join the Corps of Cavalry in Egypt; advises him to remain quiet about any disharmony between Mr. Davis and himself because of upsetting the \"thousands who are friendly to both\"; urges him to prepare for publication his reports to \"justify...motives and...actions\" by him [JEJ]. 4 pp. ALS.","Concerning the condition of the 33rd Regiment, Va. Volunteers, immediately after the close of the first battle of Manassas, 21 July 1861. 6 pp ALS.","Concerns an article on \"the flag question\" by Beauregard to be submitted to the April 1872 Baltimore Southern Magazine; also the state of the government in Louisiana -- \"quasi-revolution.\" 3 pp. ALS.","Concerns over brother Peter; question about the Confederate States' archives; had a pleasant visit from Mr. and Mrs. Holmes and their young son. 4 pp. ALS.","Sends the final draft of his statement; report only alludes to \"saving Lee's Army\"; struck out of his attacks on [Jefferson] Davis who \"poor Floyd\" called \"Mr. Jefferson Davidson.\" 4 pp. ALS.","sends check to furnish brother Peter's new room, sends holiday greetings. 1 p. ALS.","Concerning a $500 contribution to the church; the winter weather; \"another tour to raise means for completing our Church here\"; and love to Mr. and Mrs. Johnston and regards to friends in Atlanta. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerns flag of the \"Johnston Light Infantry\" to be presented by Mrs. Johnston. 2 pp. ALS.","Her letter was his first news of her grandmother, his sister's [Louisa Smith Bowen] illness; expressions of family love; has had acute rheumatism since January. 3 pp. ALS.","Talk of funding the repairs needed for the family burial grounds; \"Lily\" will be traveling to the Springs soon for her annual stay, as prescribed by her physician. 2 pp. ALS.","Wife \"Lily\" suffering from Neauralgia; grief over death of brother [Beverly]; also settlement of Beverly's estate; financial matters concerned with brother Peter. 1 p. ALS.","Instructions to buy Beverly's silver tableware at the auction of his personal effects on the 10th if no other close relative wants it; anxious over brother Peter being alone - would like to hire someone to stay with him. 1 p. ALS.","Discussion of sale of family proprety, the storing of books, and the distributing of clothes to the poor; in agreement about brother Peter living in a hotel and will send money accordingly. 4 pp. ALS.","Since the Army of fifteen years past has changed considerably, he doesn't really recommend that Ben [Goerge Ben Johnston] become commissioned; feels that the Army has lowered its standards, and that there is some prejuice agaisnt Southerners; suggests law studies instead. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning events at first [Battle of] Manassas during Civil War. 3 pp. ALS.","Receipt for dues paid for June. 1 p. DS.","Concerning the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta and the recollection of events. 3 pp. ALS.","Relates recollections of JEJ's Cavalry leaving nothing behind to fall into enemy hands during his movement from Dalton to Atlanta. 3 pp. LS.","Concerning the loss of arms of Polk's Corps after it united with the Army of Tennessee in 1864. 2 pp. LS.","Discusses losses of men under his command in the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning Pettus' participation in the Dalton and Atlanta campaigns in Stephenson's Division of Hood's Corp. 2 pp. ALS.","Reminisces about his command in the CSA, and his memories of the Army of Tenessee. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning the loss of arms in the Georgia campaign, recollections of events and compliments about the campaign. 4 pp. ALS.","Concerning the loss of muskets, positions, panics...in the retreat from Dalton to Atlanta in 1864 and his recollection of events. 8 pp. ALS.","Concerning Hood's article published in the New Orleans papers and the statement of the loss of small arms; greatest loss was in 27 June 1864 when Gen. McPherson's army made an assault on the position at Kenesaw Mountain. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning the statement by Col. Oladowski [?] as to the \"Georgia campaign\" in 1864 and Lowrey's recollections. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning controversy between Gen. Hood and Johnston and Govan's recollections of events of Johnston's campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. 4 pp. ALS.","Concerning loss of arms in Georgia in [18]64 campaign and the reporting of surrounding events. 7 pp. ALS.","Discusses communication with General A. H. Colquitt. 2 pp. ALS.","Encloses a history for Johnston's use \"without any restrictions.\" 1 p. ALS. Including an AMsS by Ja[me]s M. Kennard, n.d., n.p. relating to a supposed message from Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress on Joseph E. Johnston's reinstatement. 25 pp.","Mr. Fields to re-enclose grave yard; lodging and financial arrangements for brother Peter. 2 pp. ALS.","Encloses his reply to Gen. George W. Mindil's pamphlet \"The Battle of Fair Oaks,\" as copied for the Court of Paris. 1 p. Cy of LS. Including Cy of Ms by Joseph E. Johnston. 20 pp.","Concerning Col. Marshall's address as not being an attack against JEJ, but rather a criticism of some statements of JEJ's in regard to the army around Richmond [during the war]. Comments on Marshall's address and includes points of controversy with his recollections with statistical information; corrects JEJ on points regarding himself and statements made about him and his command in JEJ's book; apologizes for mentioning these matters and does not do so to complain; mentions the courtesy and kindness which JEJ always treated him. \"You know that when any one undertakes to write a historical account of events, there is a right in the part of those who disagree with the writer, to criticize and analyze his statements.\" 6 pp. ALS.","Concerning the Georgia Brigade Lawton took to Virginia in June 1862 and the details surrounding the situation. 3 pp. ALS.","Has enclosed an extract from a letter of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston \"in the hope that it may be of some service to you and history.\" 1 p. ALS. Inclusing a Cy of LS from Jos[eph] E. Johnston, Savannah, [Ga.], to Colonel [John P. Nicholson], n.p., 14 April 1875, defending what he had written about a battle fought at Fair Oaks. 1 p.","Explanation of a delay in payment of a $1000 note. 2 pp. ALS.","Detailed comments on the Count of Paris' letters concerning the Battle of Seven Pines, defending what himself, Longstreet, [D. H.] Hill, and Smith had reported; also extensive defense of himself and descriptions of his and others' actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks; asks if he received an autograph note of Gen[era]l [Robert E.] Lee. 3 pp. ALS.","Invitation to attend and act as Chief Marshall at the unveiling of the Foley Statue of [\"Stonewall\"] Jackson on the 26th of October. 1 p. ALS.","Concerning the recent publication by the press of \"our late correspondence\"; the desire for you to accept the position of Marshall in chief on the 16th, and Mr. Valentine is interested in executing a bust of you. 1 p. ALS.","Economic discussion of the Hawaiian Treaty which will remove the rice tariff, and how it will affect the rice farmers in South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana; concern over land losing its value and people being forced out of work; alludes to North/South disputes over the problem, stating that the planter will be \"unable to stand up under the burden imposed upon him for the benefit of Northern manufacturers\"; asks him to vote against the treaty and to relay the same messages to Col. [Robert W.] Withers. 1 p. ALS.","Discusses Southern political systems, the Democratic nomination convention in St. Louis, and Northern attitudes toward the South. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 3 pp.","Thanks him for the \"handsome testimonial\" and tribute sent to him from such a \"noble chieftain.\" 2 pp. ALS.","Has learned through Judge [Robert W.] Hughes that he [JWJ] will support President Hayes' administration; expresses wish for him to withold support until he knows more fully the President's \"Southern policy\"; discussion of JWJ's son applying to West Point or just joining the Army. 2 pp. ALS.","Cancellation of plans due to wife's illness; discussion of his friend Haine [?], who was dissapointed because the P.O. Dept. appointment was not filled; he is now trying for the office of Marshall, which will be vacant on the expiration of the term of the incumbent, according to [Judge Robert W.] Hughes; hopes he [JWJ] will lend his support to Haine [?]. 3 pp. ALS.","Expression of friendship; gives correction of Pickett's strength of 4500 instead of 5500 as previously reported. 2 pp. ALS.","Ben has decided to settle in Richmond; [Robert W.] Hughes does not think that it is a wise move since it was flooded with medical men after the war and recommends Norfolk instead; also the comment that there is a strong Catholic influence [in Norfolk] which would also help Ben professionally. 4 pp. ALS.","Has sent application for Joe's [Johnston] benefit; feels that [Robert W.] Hughes has excellent sense and judgement [referring to his opinions of where Ben should set up a medical practice]. 1 p. ALS.","More discussions of Ben setting up medical practice in Richmond. 2 pp. ALS.","Requests that he be sent the Texas-Pacific R.R. Bill so that he may read it, as it is so unlike the Bill passed at the St. Louis Convention of 1975, he feels it will aid the South, and not the North; his friend, John C. Brown, is V[ice] Pres[iden]t of the Institution [governing the railroad?]. 1 p. ALS.","Discusses economy of the South and resulting problems; anti-military sentiments of the South; and character of Tilden and Hayes. 4 pp. ALS. including typescript. 3 pp.","Discussing the Greenbacker philosophy, the Electoral Commission, and the election; his views of the insurance profession; and his impressions of Tilden. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Again requests a copy of the Texas-Pacific R.R. Bill for his friend Robert Gourdin; would have asked Bev[erly] Tucker to send it, but he is in New Orleans, [La.], directing a convention; discussion of the reduction of the tobacco tax on Southern farmers. 1 p. ALS.","Gives glowing recommendation of Col. [Robert E.] Withers for a Democratic middle class office in the Senate; is glad to hear of his improved health; Gov. Randolph sent a copy of the new Army Bill; asks that he [JWJ] and Col. Withers read his comments on it. 1 p. ALS.","Writes on behalf of their kinsman James Southall who would like to be appointed to the new Geology professorship at the \"Va. University.\" 1p. ALS.","Will be happy to give Mr. McCloskey a recommendation on his application for an office; is pleased he sent out a circular; Lily still suffering from rheumatism. 3 pp. ALS.","Comments on a note on the F. J. Porter case and [Theodore Fitz] Randolph's speech; Lee and Jackson's operations against Pope [at 2nd Bull Run]; and the next Presidential election. 4 pp. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Comments on apparent Southern antipathy to politics; the approaching election, and the Democratic Party; will not be a candidate. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Is recovering from a bad sprain; believes a Democrat will win the Presidency, but a thorough civil service reform is not likely. 2 pp. ALS. including typerscript. 1 p.","Compares public morals and their effects on elections with those of 30 years ago, and discusses Hayes' use of the veto; and the ideal beauty of Pattsfield. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.","Discussion of quarrels amongst members of the Westmoreland Club and Capt. John S. Wise, and the rule of secrecy and voting; will be attending his [GBK] wedding. 2 pp. ALS.","Has written to Dr. Curry who is a member of the Board of Visitors [of the Medical College of Virginia?] about a professorship; also mention of Ben's bride. 1 p. ALS.","Send picture of his mother, who was a good friend of her [Mrs. Johnston] mother [Catherine May (Milligan) McLane] 2 pp. ALS.","Invitation to attend the reuinion of the First Kentucky Brigade of Infantry \"in the late war.\" 1 p. LS.","Criticism of Lincoln and Garfield; his views of the effect of a Southern victory, and comparisons of resources of North and South in 1861. 1 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Praises Frank Blair [Frances Preston Blair, Jr.]; finds the only well-founded sectional prejudice is that of favoring Virginia hams; slavery caused no inferiority of the people; continues a discussion of how the South could have won -- including more arms, a different Confederate President, and a strong move against Grant in late 1862; expresses opinion that Hardee or Stewart would have prevented Sherman's \"March to the Sea.\" 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Concerning the approaching dedication of the Washington monument and Rice's desire to have Johnston write a letter \"which would embody your estimate of Washington in his military capacity\" and would be bound in a sheaf for the celebration. 4 pp. ALS.","Gives background of a certain picture of General [Robert E.] Lee [and JEJ taken in Savannah after the Civil War], and the photographer's name, D.J. Ryan; sees her father often and describes his [John W. Johnston] new interest in military equipment and habits of ancient and medieval people; her cousin Sue Talliaferro has been staying with them. 2 pp. ALS.","Sends desired picture and apologies for it being faded [referring to a picture of Johnston and Lee taken together in Savannah,Ga. after the war]; is going to New York, [N.Y.], to the funeral \"of a valued old friend.\" 1 p. ALS.","Copy of official report submitted by Major General James Longstreet, 10 June 1862, on the Battle of Seven Pines.1 pp. Cy of DS.","News of events since JEJ's departure from St. Louis. 1 p. ALS.","Has sent photograph of his \"lovely darling\" [wife, Lydia (McLane) Johnston], and grieves over her death. 1 p. ALS.","Discusses his proposed trip to St. Louis, and points west to inspect \"roads\"; hopes [Don Carlos] Buell will be named superintendant of the Coast Survey; discusses condition of [Henry Jackson] Hunt. 4 pp. Including typescript. 1 pp.","Complains of extremely hot weather; explains that he has no foreign correspondents from which he could acquire psotage stamps [in reference to WFL's stamp collection]. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerns republication of articles on the war which appeared in the North American Review. 1 p. ALS.","Tells of his office being in his home and that his hours are 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; invites him to use his home if he [GBJ] attends the medical convention in Washington, [D.C.]. 2 pp. ALS.","Requests that she show to Eliza [(Johnston) Hughes] the letters she has of Judge (Thomas T.) Bouldin announcing Charles' [Clement Johnston] death, and his [JEJ] fathers' [Peter Johnston] death. 2 pp. ALS.","Acknowledges receipt of a St. Louis paper. 1 p. ALS.","Was impressed by his conduct at Yorktown and 7 Pines; applied for his appointment to a vacancy in 1864; the recommendation may have been held up in the office of Gen. [Braxton] Bragg. 2 pp. ALS. Including p.s., from J. E. Johnston, to Gen. D. H. Hill, explaining that his questions pertained to what sort of paper he should write -- not because of \"the fear of entangling myself.\" 1 p.","Acknowledges receipt of a St. Louis paper. 1 p. ALS.","Can't hope to see Johnston until the weather warms; discusses financial difficulties related to civil and political rights. 2 pp. ALS.","Reminisces about family ties with his [SSL] grandparents [Anna Marie (Mason) Lee and Sydney Smith Lee]; is very proud of him and always happy to hear from him. 1 p. ALS.","Wishes Gantt would move to Washington and leave his \"unfashionable\" location; discusses reasons for [Benjamin Stoddard] Ewell being refused a professorship at William and Mary after using at least $15,000 of his own money to save it; his tour of inspection will be delayed until Congress appropriates the money. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.","Comments on fashions in St. Louis; opinions of slavery; and a defense of [Richard S.] Ewell against attacks by [P.G.T.] Beauregard. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Details Confederate blunders in the areas of buying up cotton to sell for arms, and not moving against McClellan in force in 1862, or putting Lee in command on May 31, [1862?]; also Bragg not capturing Union troops in West Tennessee; troops in Arkansas not being transferred to Mississippi, and Hood being put opposite Sherman instead of Hardee or Stewart. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Gives account of his recent trip through the Rocky Mountains and on to the Pacific Ocean, and of all the land's beauty. 3 pp. ALS.","Had no idea of the disaster to the Democratic party; describes a situation in Williamsburg as being the consequence of a large number of Negroes brought there by the military occupation; Gettysburg will not be as bad as the effect of Negro supremacy; Henry A. Wise turned Democrat to run for Governor; doesn't understand why Gantt's St. Louis house won't sell; as a child, heard much discussion of the authorship of the \"Junius\" letters, and feels Lord Lyttelton is a good possibility; death of a niece. 3 pp. ALS. including typescript. 2 pp.","Sends news of death of General [Henry] Hunt -- an old friend. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.","Is concerned about her father's [John W. Johnston] relapses, but cannot come to visit yet due to preparing his office for its next occupant; tells of preparation of the court of the great \"pension building\" for the inauguration ballroom. 2 pp. ALS.","Discusses use of contributed funds to buy a house for Mrs. [Henry] Hunt and her other funds; and strategies for Congressional aid for her. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Requests Johnston's presence at an Inter-State Drill to be held in Nashville. 1 p. TLS.","Concerning Johnston's election to the honorary vice presidency of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. 1 p. LS.","Conveys suggestion of a dinner for the Comte de Paris; suggests dinner be in private, including only Mr. [Robert M.] McLane and a nephew to entertain the Comte's son. 2 pp. ALS.","Asks for his expression of approval toward the plans of Grand Reunion of the \"Blue and Gray\" to be held at Chicago, [Ill.], during the Exposition in 1893; gives ideas about a parade, and a pavillion being erected to exhibit relics of the [Civil] War from both sides. 2 pp. ALS.","Is sorry to hear he has been ill, and hopes that he is recovering \"for there are few men whom the old Confederates need as much as...yourself.\" 1 p. LS.","Expressions of hope for a speedy recovery. 2 pp. ALS.","Regrets that he will not be able to attend the funeral service of [McLane s brother-in-law] JEJ; expressions of sorry and sympathy. 2 pp. ALS.","3 pp. Cy of DS.","Concerning \"the prejudices of a single non-combatant\" in opposition to \"the preference of so many thousand fighting men.\" 1 p. ALS.","1 p. ACS.","Accepts invitation to call; invites Mrs. McLane to join Mr. and Mrs. Milman and her breakfast. 2 pp. ANS.","5 pp. TMs.","44 p. DF of D.","Incomplete. 10 pp. Ms.","40 pp. Ams.","1 p. Ph.","Printed by D. Appleton \u0026 Co. 1 item.","Reports on the great improvements in the school; is pleased her aunt has a good gardener and describes their gardens at school; did not practice her music enough at home so Mr. Bozzaotra criticizes her time; lists the gloves, corsets, shoes, and handkerchiefs she needs, and asks for Corinne in French. 2 pp. TCy.","Comments on various aunts and uncles, including \"Uncle Joe\" [Joseph E. Johnston]; unhappy that she will not see Preston for 2 years; mentions that the school has 25 or 26 students - mainly ones who were at \"Liberty.\" 1 p. TCy.","Comments on the lack of letters from Preston and on activities of Uncle Peter [Johnston] and Aunt Jane. Enclosed is a lengthy postscript from Ed[ward] W[illia]m Johnston teasing him on his new position and describing the fate of the school at Liberty and his at Botetourt Springs; mentions pleasant neighborhoods. 2 pp TCy.","Chastises him for not writing. 1 p. TCy.","Imagines that Preston's letters to her have gone to the Springs, where she plans to go to attend at least one more session of Uncle E[dward William Johnston]'s school; would be there now except neither Uncle Ben nor Uncle John can take her; inquires about Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston]. 1 p. TCy.","Wanted to join Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] at the Springs but it meant Aunt Sally would be alone too long; lengthy news of various aunts and uncles and the possibility that some of them may move to Texas. 2 pp. TCy.","Asks his preference on being called \"brother\" or \"Preston,\" for Aunt Sally says \"Pres\" is disrespectful; lengthy news of various uncles and aunts and her fear that she will miss seeing Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] at the Springs; describes Cherie's [Mrs. Edward W. Johnston] drinking problem. 2 pp. TCy.","Asks for more frequent letters; only time for writing letters is one hour at night; has no news of relatives. 2 pp. TCy. Including TCy of N from Ed[ward] W[illia]m Johnston, [Botetourt Springs, Va.], to [John] Pres[ton Johnston, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.], Feb[ruar]y 22, 1840, sending news of Jo[seph E. Johnston] who is at Cape Florida but will probably go to Washington late in the month, and from there be sent to the Northern frontier. 2 pp. TCy;","Sends Eliza M. Johnston's school report for February 1840. 1 p. TCy.","Sends news of various relatives including report that Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] is expected to return to Washington this monh. 2 pp. TCy.","Mentions Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston]'s plan to return to Florida, and the poor condition of Uncle Edward [W. Johnston's] school, including the deaths of 3 former students. 1 p. TCy.","Describes a recent picnic given by Mrs. General Watts with mint julip lacking in water; mentions various aunts and uncles; and inquires about a missing portrait of Uncle Benjamin. 2 pp. TCy.","Sends her report for June with an explanation of a few bad marks; describes Mr. Goodsicki of Richmond, the new dancing master; inquires about Uncle John [B. Floyd]. 2 pp. TCy.","Writes before leaving for Richmond where she looks forward to spending the winter; inquires about \"Cousin Eliza\" Carrington and \"the General\"; knows Uncle Edward [W. Johnston] is hurt that she is going to Mr. Perieo's school instead of returning to his. 2 pp. TCy.","Informs of her recent confirmation by Bishop [William] Meade; reports Aunt Jane's move to Tuscaloosa and Cousin Maria's death. 1 p. TCy.","Writes of many friends and relatives who are ill or dead. 1 p. TCy.","Must work hard the rest of the session for she found herself behind upon her return; needs corsets, handkerchiefs and a white dress. 1 p. TCy.","Regrets her Aunt's uneasiness but feels it is groundless and that \"Uncle\" will return home soon; has little time because of the concert and review lessons; needs shoes for she has \"nearly danced out\" those she has. 1 p. TCy.","88 pp. MsV.","42 pp. MsV.","Edited by Richard M. McMurry. 46 pp. Typescript.","Edited by Richard M. McMurry. 59 pp. Typescript.","Edited by Richard M. McMurry. 54 pp. Typescript.","19 pp. PM.","Most entries are headed Meridian, [Miss.], or Dalton, [Ga.]. 183 pp. MsV. Including: a memo, Jan[uar]y 30, 1862 of Thomas Jordan, A[ssistant] Adj[utant] Gen[era]l Head Quarters, 18th Comp[an]y, [?], on $694.50 spent in keeping open communications with Washington, D.C. 2 pp.; newspaper clipping, n.d., about a seech of [CSA] Senator Semmes attacking Johnston. 1 p.","52 pp. MsV. including Cys of Ls relating to the Kansas expedition. November 1, 1858 - June 22, 1859. 15 pp. Also including miscellaneous financial notes. 7 pp. MsV. 1. Not filmed.","MsV. 2. Not filmed.","68 p. MsV. Including a Cy of LS from L[eonidas] Polk, Demapolis, [Alabama?], to Gen[era]l J. E. Johnston, n.p., May 4, 1864. 1 p. Also including \"Directions given by Gen[era]l Johnston for the evacuation of the line at Yorktown,\" n.d. 2 pp. Also including a memorandum of agreement, April 18, 1865, between General Johnston and Sherman for the surrender of the Confederate troops, with associated letters and notes by B. S. Ewell. 10 pp. [Portions of this volume were copied for the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.] MsV 3.","237 pp. MsV. Including index to the first 52 pp. Also including a Telegram Book for 1 February 1862-3 March 1862. 9 pp. MsV. 4. Filmed.","21 pp. MsV. Including NCls, 1863-1864, collected by B.S. Ewell about J.E. Johnston. 44 pp. Also including loose NCls, mainly 1891, on Johnston's death and funeral. 12 pp. The General Orders were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" MsV. 5. Filmed.","270 pp. MsV. This volume was copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" MsV. 6. Filmed.","6 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Including his dispatches during the siege of Jackson, Mississippi. 64 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Most dispatches are from Morton on Meridian, Mississippi. Parts of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" 72 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Most letters are from Meridian, Mississippi, or Dalton, Georgia, and some are lengthy reports of Johnston's command. 103 pp. MsV. Filmed.","131 pp. MsV. Including a report of Benjamin S. Ewell's visit to Richmond, 8-20 APril 1864. 16 pp. Also including B.S. Ewell's comparison of the campaigns in Virginia and Georgia in the spring and summer of 1864. 10 pp. Also including tabulations of strengths and losses, 7 December 1863-9 July 1864. 3 pp. Also including a narrative by B.S. Ewell, 5 August 1864, on Johnston's removal from command. 2 pp. Copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.","54 pp. MsV. Including Cys of Ls, 29 April 1862-28 June 1863, from J.E. Johnston, to Lydian McLane Johnston. 10 pp. Also including telegrams, 4 May 1864-20 May 1864. 4 pp. Also including a report, 15 February 1865, of General Hood while commanding the Army of Tennessee, 18 July 1864-23 January 1865. 17 pp. Also including statistics on the Manassas Army, 31 December 1861. 1 pp. Also including Df. of Ls by Benjamin S. Ewell, n.d. 2 pp. Portions of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the Army of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.","121 pp. MsV. Filmed.","6 pp. MsV. Including Joseph E. Johnston's notes on General W.T. Sherman's Memoirs. 3 pp. Also including note of General T.G. Rhett's address. 1 p. Filmed.","48 pp. MsV. Including Returns of Troops, 17 March 1865-24 April 1865. 5 pp. Also including a memo on wounded Confederate and Federal troops. 1 p. Also including NCls regarding Johnston, 1864, 37 pp., and loose clippings, 2 pp. Portions of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.","188 pp. MsV. Filmed.","204 pp. MsV. Filmed.","204 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Principle accounts are with Major A.D. Banks and D. Appleton \u0026 Co. MsV. 125 pp. Not filmed.","150 pp. MsV. Including copies of correspondence regarding his insurance business in Richmond, Va., 20 February 1875-5 June 1878. 113 pp. Also including correspondence with the Home Insurance COmpany, headed Washington, D.C., 19 January 1883-19 February 1883. 4 pp. Not filmed.","Gives accounts for travel in North Carolina and Virginia, as well as population counts of cities in those states; also account of Joseph E. Johnston with Pan Electric Association. 11 pp. MsV. Not filmed.","A one page letter sent from General Joseph E. Johnston to Brigadier General John H. Kelly regarding the transport and exchange of unfit cavalry horses. The letter is accompanied by two different transcriptions, one of which is labeled as having been done by Jeff Toalson on August 14, 2020.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 1807-1891","Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893","Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876","Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894","Gantt, Thomas T. (Thomas Tasker), 1814-1889","Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883","Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902","Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889","Johnston, George Ben, 1853-1916","Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870","Longstreet, James, 1821-1904","Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825/1891"],"collection_ssim":["Joseph E. 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(Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889","Johnston, George Ben, 1853-1916","Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870","Longstreet, James, 1821-1904","Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1820-1891","Special Collections Research Center"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Materials were presented by Mrs. Robert M. Crawford (1924-1930), Robert M. Hughes (1939), Mrs. G. L. Batchelder, Jr. (1958), and Anne Mason Lee (1960). Gift of Richard M. McMurry (1975). 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"accruals_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAccession 2001.35 addition filed in Box 1.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accruals_heading_ssm":["Accruals:"],"accruals_tesim":["Accession 2001.35 addition filed in Box 1."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJoseph Eggleston Johnston was a general in the Confederate Army, CSA. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Joseph_Eggleston_Johnston\" title=\"Joseph Eggleston Johnston\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Joseph Eggleston Johnston was a general in the Confederate Army, CSA. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: ."],"phystech_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAny materials produced during the Civil War (Box 1, Folder 4) can only be viewed on microfilm.  Also, boxes 4-6 can only be viewed on microfilm. When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"phystech_heading_ssm":["Physical Characteristics or Technical Requirements:"],"phystech_tesim":["Any materials produced during the Civil War (Box 1, Folder 4) can only be viewed on microfilm.  Also, boxes 4-6 can only be viewed on microfilm. When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJoseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Joseph E. Johnston Letter, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","General Joseph E. Johnston Letter, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1981. Box and folder list compiled by Meredith Ramey, SCRC staff, in March 2012.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information:"],"processinfo_tesim":["Processed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1981. Box and folder list compiled by Meredith Ramey, SCRC staff, in March 2012."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRelated collections are Robert Morton Hughes Papers, Robert William Hughes Papers and John B. 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Mackall; letters received by Louis McLane (including letters from Andrew Jackson and Lafayette) and typescripts of letters by Eliza Johnston Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Subjects concern Braxton Bragg, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, William Joseph Hardee, George Ben Johnston, and the American Civil War (including the Atlanta Campaign of 1864). Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, Jubal Early, Thomas Tasker Gantt, Josiah Gorgas, Wade Hampton, D.H. Hill, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet and W.T. Sherman (General Order #18 of Johnston surrendering and giving terms to Sherman); as well as members of Johnston's family, Beverly R. Johnston, John Preston Johnston and John Warfield Johnston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e A list of books in the Rare Book Collection which were owned by Joseph E. Johnston is in Box 1. Accession 2001.35 addition filed in Box 1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The Civil War dispatch and telegram books are available on microfilm for use in Swem Library or the microfilm may be requested via inter-library loan. The Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891, in Swem Library's microforms area is on 6 reels, call number E467.1 .J74 A2.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his mother's recent death. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a recent change [marriage to Ann Bernard] in his father's life which will make it less solitary; must decide by June whether to remain in the Army and choose the Infantry or the Artillery. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the death of McLane's father, the office made vacant by his death, and the introduction of Mr. F. B. Ogden by this letter. 2 pp. LS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the forces gathering for the coming Revolution [of 1830]. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a strong interest and desire for prosperity for the United States. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns procedure for the presentation of copies of publications of the Commissioners of Public Records to the United States. 3 pp. ADF and L.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs not in love, though from time to time feels tenderness towards and interest in the appearance and conversation of a particular woman. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs anxious to see \"those who remain\" [after the deaths of his father and brother]; saw John Preston \"at the university\"; comments on the matrimonial propensity of young people; is susceptible to the charms of so many women that they neutralize each other. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses plans for Louisa's son John [W. Johnston], and the need for John to travel on his own; mentions various relatives he has seen and Jane's plans; missed seeing \"Mama in Richmond.\" 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad a miserable march through the country and is in quite a bad humor; describes foiled plans to go to Richmond; the weather has been as cold as a Virginia winter; gossip of Harrison [?] traveling to Augusta, [Ga.], to see a lady. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs going back to Old Point Comfort, [Va.]; describes the \"delicious moonlight nights\" and the \"very pretty Indian girls.\" 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of money matters; hopes to make a trip to Florida in the winter; talk of a horserace in which he lost $750.00; needs a horse for fox-hunting; cannot visit due to his [BRJ] \"bachelor\" state. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs on his way to assist Gen[era]l Scott in the war against the Seminoles; describes his journey south; waiting for a steamboat to take them down the St. John's River, [Fla.]; describes the Army and gives the number of Indians to be estimated at about 3500, although he thinks that figure is exaggerated; soldiers complaining of having to boil and eat pork; heard from John that all of their Negroes had been sold and that all of the \"affairs\" were still unsettled; is saddened that Sam [a slave] was sold. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his reasons for resigning; is now employed in the Top[ograophi]c Bureau; news of Edward and Webb separating, and Edward composing literary works - probably on the life of Patrick Henry; has heard of his [BRJ] \"matrimonial intentions\" and warns him not to be rash; wishes for him to meet some of the lovely ladies in Washington. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppoints Mr. [John Preson] Johnston to the Military Academy, but cannot appoint Stephen J. Crockett, as regulations allow only one cadet per congressional district. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhilosophical letter giving advice about writing letters, suffering through hard times and looking upon him [JEJ] as a brother, not a uncle. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of upcoming trips to Elizabeth Town, N.J., to meet General Scott at Head Quarters, then on to Trenton, and then to Washington, [D.C.]. he will not, however, be able to stop to visit him [JPJ] due to troop movements; gives travel instructions and descriptions of a new black trunk for him. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI sorry, but cannot send any money because he doesn't have any; gives more detailed travel instructions for Pres to follow on his trip from Washington, through Baltimore, and on to Philadelphia and Trenton, including the use of a steamboat. 2 pp, ALS,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives instructions as to where and how he will receive some money from a friend of his [JEJ] in Washington. 1 p. ALS\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs glad he is enjoying school so much, and encourages him \"to make a good use of the faculties nature has given...\"; hopes to visit in the latter part of October; discusses a survey of an area east of the St. Regis which will keep him busy outside until the weather turns cool; the President and the Sec. of War have visited, and \"peace and tranquility are restored\"; tell Lizzie to write. 3 pp. ALS. including typescript, 3 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs happy he has become so \"naturalized\" to school, but cautions him not to rely too heavily on his present knowledge of mathematics; he [JPJ] should feel lucky that his Uncle Bev wrote to him, as he never writes to anyone; will stop by and see him in 10 days, but only for a few hours, as neither have much time; has received accounts of Harvey Michele's \"Texas Scheme\" from cousin John; other family news. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas disappointed to find that Lizzie was still at Burke's Garden, and not in school -- hopes that will be taken care of soon; news of visit to Edward's farm and his horse \"Tigertail\"; comments on disposition and application of JPJ. 2 pp, ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePermission for J[ohn] P[reston] Johnstone [sic] to move from one barracks room to another. Signed also by R. Delarfield, Supt. of M.A., and by J. Hayfoot. 1 p. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs on his way back to Washington from Florida; has had gratifying accounts of Pres in school, and urges him [BRJ] to write him; speaks lovingly of Pres and gives Mrs. Carrington much of the credit for his [JPJ] upbringing; discussion of Eliza and her education, or lack thereof; wants family new. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSaw Professor Capt. Blis who gave a satisfying account of his progress at school; has just returned from southern Florida where he spent the winter; comments on the state of military affairs in that territory and a bill before Congress to raise additional forces to fight in the Seminole War; gives advice and to read the greats authors and Latin \"in the original\" if there is spare time. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives an explanation of why he could not visit him, and expresses gratification and pride in all of his accomplishments; is located in the country between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, surveying the land for possible fortification; comments on the abundance of trout and whitefish, and how much Uncle Edward would enjoy fishing there. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not be going to Florida for the winter; Edward is considering selling his land and settling in Abingdon, Lynchburg, or Columbia; they had a \"preserving\" snow storm on the 18th, which signaled the beginning of winter; there is a truce in Florida now, and a group of Seminole chiefs, including Sam Jones, wild Cat, and Tiger Tail are traveling to Washington to make the final arrangements; hopes that Lizzie will be sent to Washington instead of Richmond, and comments that he would like her to know that he has not proposed to anyone, just like the song \"I Don't Propose.\" 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. Ms. Including Xcy of Ms. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJust returned from an extended visit to the Sabine, and is concerned because he has not heard from him in a while. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be spending the summer in Mackinac, instructions to get any clothing needed from Sam[uel] Frost, a merchant tailor in New York, [N.Y.], and to have them charged to his [JEJ] bill. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA school friend of JPJ's, Thompson Mason, will be coming soon, and JEJ wishes him to be welcomed and treated well, and also his mother; is still on his journey to Lake Michigan, and is not sure when he will be back by West Point; hopes he [JPJ] is enjoying his furlough, and wishes for him to stop and see Col. Preston, Mr. Hopkins, and Mrs. Merrick. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his upcoming itinerary; news of his [JPJ] clothes being sent by the tailor, [Samuel] Frost. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. ANS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas heard about an epidemic at West Point and is anxious about his [JPJ] health; mention of a cadet Mason, near death and hopes that it is not his friend [Thompson Mason], has been in Buffalo about 15 days and may remain another month; is interested about news from Va. relatives. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsoles him [JPJ] about the lack of correspondence from his relatives; gives excuse of being ill for his lack of correspondence; tells of his great love for him and mentions also his love of a sweetheart; Cousin Tom's wedding has been postponed until the Fall; Lizzie is in Columbia and spends her free time at Cousin Margaret's home; gossip of a possible duel between Mr. [Henry A.] Wise and Mr. [Edward] Stanley [sic] Stanly; talk of Affghan [sic] war and the end of the Florida war [Seminole War]. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of his [JPJ] court martial; praise of Gen[era]l Worth; some old family news. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplains the lack of correspondence during the winter; discussion on his [JPJ] future, involving going into industry or remaining in the Army, giving pros and cons of each; had a pleasant trip to New Orleans, [La.]; comment about women being \"pleasant and attractive creatures, beyond denial,\" but only \"when one has nothing else to think of, or to excite him.\" 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not be able to come to graduation due to detainment \"by authority\"; gives advice on selection fo a regiment or a corp; is on his way to the Northeast Boundary after Houlton, Maine. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning JEJ's recent marriage; sword is in safe keeping; and questions JEJ on future travel plans. 4 pp ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions many mutual friends in England, and Mrs. McLane's family. 4 pp. ALS. including a TCy of ALS. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks him [JPJ] to obtain leave to come for a visit as he cannot leave; explains note to Lieut. Knowlton. 2 pp. ALS. Including ANS from J[oseph] E. Johnston, New York, [N.Y.], to [?] Knowlton, [West Point, N.Y.?], 15 November [18]45, asking a favor of lending JPJ some money so he may be able to visit him [JEJ]. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions friends, [?] May and Pike Graham, with army in Mexico and speaks of companies raised in Washington Co., Va., and vicinity. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders Lieut. J[ohn] P[reston] Johnston to detatched service and Lieut. R[ichard] H. L. Johnston to duty under him. 1 p. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of introduction for his son John Wickham Leigh. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of the President's [Millard Fillmore] message and the report of the General-in-Chief [of the Army?], and how it will affect the Top[ographica]l Corps; yearns for a promotion, and asks him to put in a good word for him; mentions he has 8 or 10 scars from battles with Indians; also suggests General [Winfield] Scott or General Dawson of Georgia for recommendations; asks for \"little Lissie's\" [Eliza (Johnston) Hughes] new husband's name. 2 pp. Pst. (From an original belonging to W[illia]m Armour, New York City, N.Y.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 pp. D.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion confirming Joseph E. Johnston's rank as Brevet Colonel. 10 pp. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on Johnston's appointment as Quartermaster General of the Army. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the Secession Convention held in Richmond. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. See Oversize File.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifies Gorgas of a telegraphed dispatch regarding captured muskets. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Col. [Nathan George] Evans engaged. most of the day yesterday in battle with the enemy, utilizing twelve regts. and five batteries, near the Potomac River; heavy casualties and 200 prisoners taken, as well as six field pieces. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. DS. See Oversize File.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of killed, wounded, and missing in the battle of Ball's Bluff, [Va.], fought 21 Oct. 1861. 11 p. D.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. DS. See Oversize File.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter written by General Joseph Eggleston Johnston of the Confederate Army to fellow General P. G. T. Beauregard, replying to the latter's proposed troop movement. The letter is dated January 14, 1862, and is sent from the Northern Virginia headquarters of the Confederate Army. A transcript of the letter and biographical information on General Johnston in also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. ALS. Urges keeping the York River open to gunboats [two days prior to the Battle of Williamsburg]; Hill not to command his rear guard and to continue the fire after midnight; adds postscript \"I would like to have the vessels sunk.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMap. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgrees to send Capt. Mason and Lt. Col. Harvey to him as soon as possible; is pleased that he is \"again able to take the field.\" 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of Dick's letter to Col. W. Hoffman, Comissary General of Prisoners, Washington, [D.C.], 5 March 1863, regarding sending of 150 citizen prisoners for exchange. [with extensive endorsements]. 4 pp. Cy of DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists 14 men and 11 women. 1 p. Cy of DC. Including Cy of D from F. A. Dick, Lt. Col. Prov[ost] Mar[shall] Gen[eral], 12 May 1863, listing 14 family members to be passed through the lines with their husbands and fathers. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends message urging JEJ to report about the fall of Vicksburg at the Court of Enquiry at Montgomery, [Ala.]. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. PD.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. PD.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of the transfer of Major Barton from Gen[era]l Pol's command to his, and the misuse of Army funds; strategic discussion of upcoming battle in March, the deterioration of their horses, and [U.S.] Grant taking advantage of Longstreet's poor artillery and driving him back into Va.; reminds him to secure all his papers at home as \"they will be very important to me after the war\"; description of transfer of family silver through Nicati [sic] [Nicketti Floyd Johnston?]. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets losing him because of government orders; had high expectations for his help and from his expedition. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Report of Gen[era]l Hood.\" 1 p. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGen[era]l Cobb is to address the people tonight; gives opinion of how to regroup and states that \"you [JEJ] alone can bring back the old soldiers to their colors or engage other to join\"; describes feeling of bitterness for Mr. [Jefferson] Davis, and that his supporters say \"he had proved himself utterly incapable of conducting the war\"; talk of Lee's popularity waning also if he \"doesn't at once, show independence and pursue a course at least masked by being widely different from Mr. D[avis'], as well as people thinking that he [Lee] did not prevent him [JEJ] from being removed, not to mention not restoring him [JEJ] back.\" 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning statistics of men and supplies; and prefers to have a commader other than Gen. Bragg for he \"has made me a scapegoat.\" 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. DS. See Oversize File.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTable of the Return of the Effective Strength of the Army of Tennessee, listing numbers in Lee's Corps, Total Infantry, and Kanapanx's Battery. 1 p. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses President Lincoln's assassination in relation to the South's strength in the Civil War. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. AMsS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. AMsS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs writing a narrative of the war, but has lost many of his papers, asks Cummings' opinions, especially on the subjects of campaigns in Tennessee in 1863 and Georgia in 1864. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. PD.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the campaign in Georgia in 1864. Cy of LS. 23 pp. Including a Cy of Ms. written by J. C. Thompson, ca. 1861, and later published during the [Civil] War, entitled \"Gen. Johnston and Gen. Hood.\" 5 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to send a trunk from Edward's adopted daughter to Peter at the first opportunity; contents are papers, possibly articles written for the newspaper he [Peter] published. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the \"inaccuracy of your recollection of my course\" and an account of his recollections of the event [mentioned in an earlier letter]. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. PD.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSympathy note about the death of his son, Willie. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for a letter of recommendation and introduction so he may join the Corps of Cavalry in Egypt; advises him to remain quiet about any disharmony between Mr. Davis and himself because of upsetting the \"thousands who are friendly to both\"; urges him to prepare for publication his reports to \"justify...motives and...actions\" by him [JEJ]. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the condition of the 33rd Regiment, Va. Volunteers, immediately after the close of the first battle of Manassas, 21 July 1861. 6 pp ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns an article on \"the flag question\" by Beauregard to be submitted to the April 1872 Baltimore Southern Magazine; also the state of the government in Louisiana -- \"quasi-revolution.\" 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns over brother Peter; question about the Confederate States' archives; had a pleasant visit from Mr. and Mrs. Holmes and their young son. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends the final draft of his statement; report only alludes to \"saving Lee's Army\"; struck out of his attacks on [Jefferson] Davis who \"poor Floyd\" called \"Mr. Jefferson Davidson.\" 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esends check to furnish brother Peter's new room, sends holiday greetings. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a $500 contribution to the church; the winter weather; \"another tour to raise means for completing our Church here\"; and love to Mr. and Mrs. Johnston and regards to friends in Atlanta. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns flag of the \"Johnston Light Infantry\" to be presented by Mrs. Johnston. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer letter was his first news of her grandmother, his sister's [Louisa Smith Bowen] illness; expressions of family love; has had acute rheumatism since January. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalk of funding the repairs needed for the family burial grounds; \"Lily\" will be traveling to the Springs soon for her annual stay, as prescribed by her physician. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWife \"Lily\" suffering from Neauralgia; grief over death of brother [Beverly]; also settlement of Beverly's estate; financial matters concerned with brother Peter. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInstructions to buy Beverly's silver tableware at the auction of his personal effects on the 10th if no other close relative wants it; anxious over brother Peter being alone - would like to hire someone to stay with him. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of sale of family proprety, the storing of books, and the distributing of clothes to the poor; in agreement about brother Peter living in a hotel and will send money accordingly. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince the Army of fifteen years past has changed considerably, he doesn't really recommend that Ben [Goerge Ben Johnston] become commissioned; feels that the Army has lowered its standards, and that there is some prejuice agaisnt Southerners; suggests law studies instead. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning events at first [Battle of] Manassas during Civil War. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for dues paid for June. 1 p. DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta and the recollection of events. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelates recollections of JEJ's Cavalry leaving nothing behind to fall into enemy hands during his movement from Dalton to Atlanta. 3 pp. LS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the loss of arms of Polk's Corps after it united with the Army of Tennessee in 1864. 2 pp. LS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses losses of men under his command in the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Pettus' participation in the Dalton and Atlanta campaigns in Stephenson's Division of Hood's Corp. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReminisces about his command in the CSA, and his memories of the Army of Tenessee. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the loss of arms in the Georgia campaign, recollections of events and compliments about the campaign. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the loss of muskets, positions, panics...in the retreat from Dalton to Atlanta in 1864 and his recollection of events. 8 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Hood's article published in the New Orleans papers and the statement of the loss of small arms; greatest loss was in 27 June 1864 when Gen. McPherson's army made an assault on the position at Kenesaw Mountain. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the statement by Col. Oladowski [?] as to the \"Georgia campaign\" in 1864 and Lowrey's recollections. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning controversy between Gen. Hood and Johnston and Govan's recollections of events of Johnston's campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning loss of arms in Georgia in [18]64 campaign and the reporting of surrounding events. 7 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses communication with General A. H. Colquitt. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a history for Johnston's use \"without any restrictions.\" 1 p. ALS. Including an AMsS by Ja[me]s M. Kennard, n.d., n.p. relating to a supposed message from Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress on Joseph E. Johnston's reinstatement. 25 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Fields to re-enclose grave yard; lodging and financial arrangements for brother Peter. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses his reply to Gen. George W. Mindil's pamphlet \"The Battle of Fair Oaks,\" as copied for the Court of Paris. 1 p. Cy of LS. Including Cy of Ms by Joseph E. Johnston. 20 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Col. Marshall's address as not being an attack against JEJ, but rather a criticism of some statements of JEJ's in regard to the army around Richmond [during the war]. Comments on Marshall's address and includes points of controversy with his recollections with statistical information; corrects JEJ on points regarding himself and statements made about him and his command in JEJ's book; apologizes for mentioning these matters and does not do so to complain; mentions the courtesy and kindness which JEJ always treated him. \"You know that when any one undertakes to write a historical account of events, there is a right in the part of those who disagree with the writer, to criticize and analyze his statements.\" 6 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the Georgia Brigade Lawton took to Virginia in June 1862 and the details surrounding the situation. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas enclosed an extract from a letter of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston \"in the hope that it may be of some service to you and history.\" 1 p. ALS. Inclusing a Cy of LS from Jos[eph] E. Johnston, Savannah, [Ga.], to Colonel [John P. Nicholson], n.p., 14 April 1875, defending what he had written about a battle fought at Fair Oaks. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplanation of a delay in payment of a $1000 note. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed comments on the Count of Paris' letters concerning the Battle of Seven Pines, defending what himself, Longstreet, [D. H.] Hill, and Smith had reported; also extensive defense of himself and descriptions of his and others' actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks; asks if he received an autograph note of Gen[era]l [Robert E.] Lee. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to attend and act as Chief Marshall at the unveiling of the Foley Statue of [\"Stonewall\"] Jackson on the 26th of October. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the recent publication by the press of \"our late correspondence\"; the desire for you to accept the position of Marshall in chief on the 16th, and Mr. Valentine is interested in executing a bust of you. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEconomic discussion of the Hawaiian Treaty which will remove the rice tariff, and how it will affect the rice farmers in South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana; concern over land losing its value and people being forced out of work; alludes to North/South disputes over the problem, stating that the planter will be \"unable to stand up under the burden imposed upon him for the benefit of Northern manufacturers\"; asks him to vote against the treaty and to relay the same messages to Col. [Robert W.] Withers. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Southern political systems, the Democratic nomination convention in St. Louis, and Northern attitudes toward the South. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 3 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the \"handsome testimonial\" and tribute sent to him from such a \"noble chieftain.\" 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas learned through Judge [Robert W.] Hughes that he [JWJ] will support President Hayes' administration; expresses wish for him to withold support until he knows more fully the President's \"Southern policy\"; discussion of JWJ's son applying to West Point or just joining the Army. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCancellation of plans due to wife's illness; discussion of his friend Haine [?], who was dissapointed because the P.O. Dept. appointment was not filled; he is now trying for the office of Marshall, which will be vacant on the expiration of the term of the incumbent, according to [Judge Robert W.] Hughes; hopes he [JWJ] will lend his support to Haine [?]. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpression of friendship; gives correction of Pickett's strength of 4500 instead of 5500 as previously reported. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBen has decided to settle in Richmond; [Robert W.] Hughes does not think that it is a wise move since it was flooded with medical men after the war and recommends Norfolk instead; also the comment that there is a strong Catholic influence [in Norfolk] which would also help Ben professionally. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sent application for Joe's [Johnston] benefit; feels that [Robert W.] Hughes has excellent sense and judgement [referring to his opinions of where Ben should set up a medical practice]. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMore discussions of Ben setting up medical practice in Richmond. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests that he be sent the Texas-Pacific R.R. Bill so that he may read it, as it is so unlike the Bill passed at the St. Louis Convention of 1975, he feels it will aid the South, and not the North; his friend, John C. Brown, is V[ice] Pres[iden]t of the Institution [governing the railroad?]. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses economy of the South and resulting problems; anti-military sentiments of the South; and character of Tilden and Hayes. 4 pp. ALS. including typescript. 3 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing the Greenbacker philosophy, the Electoral Commission, and the election; his views of the insurance profession; and his impressions of Tilden. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgain requests a copy of the Texas-Pacific R.R. Bill for his friend Robert Gourdin; would have asked Bev[erly] Tucker to send it, but he is in New Orleans, [La.], directing a convention; discussion of the reduction of the tobacco tax on Southern farmers. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives glowing recommendation of Col. [Robert E.] Withers for a Democratic middle class office in the Senate; is glad to hear of his improved health; Gov. Randolph sent a copy of the new Army Bill; asks that he [JWJ] and Col. Withers read his comments on it. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites on behalf of their kinsman James Southall who would like to be appointed to the new Geology professorship at the \"Va. University.\" 1p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill be happy to give Mr. McCloskey a recommendation on his application for an office; is pleased he sent out a circular; Lily still suffering from rheumatism. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on a note on the F. J. Porter case and [Theodore Fitz] Randolph's speech; Lee and Jackson's operations against Pope [at 2nd Bull Run]; and the next Presidential election. 4 pp. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on apparent Southern antipathy to politics; the approaching election, and the Democratic Party; will not be a candidate. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs recovering from a bad sprain; believes a Democrat will win the Presidency, but a thorough civil service reform is not likely. 2 pp. ALS. including typerscript. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompares public morals and their effects on elections with those of 30 years ago, and discusses Hayes' use of the veto; and the ideal beauty of Pattsfield. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of quarrels amongst members of the Westmoreland Club and Capt. John S. Wise, and the rule of secrecy and voting; will be attending his [GBK] wedding. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas written to Dr. Curry who is a member of the Board of Visitors [of the Medical College of Virginia?] about a professorship; also mention of Ben's bride. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend picture of his mother, who was a good friend of her [Mrs. Johnston] mother [Catherine May (Milligan) McLane] 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to attend the reuinion of the First Kentucky Brigade of Infantry \"in the late war.\" 1 p. LS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCriticism of Lincoln and Garfield; his views of the effect of a Southern victory, and comparisons of resources of North and South in 1861. 1 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePraises Frank Blair [Frances Preston Blair, Jr.]; finds the only well-founded sectional prejudice is that of favoring Virginia hams; slavery caused no inferiority of the people; continues a discussion of how the South could have won -- including more arms, a different Confederate President, and a strong move against Grant in late 1862; expresses opinion that Hardee or Stewart would have prevented Sherman's \"March to the Sea.\" 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the approaching dedication of the Washington monument and Rice's desire to have Johnston write a letter \"which would embody your estimate of Washington in his military capacity\" and would be bound in a sheaf for the celebration. 4 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives background of a certain picture of General [Robert E.] Lee [and JEJ taken in Savannah after the Civil War], and the photographer's name, D.J. Ryan; sees her father often and describes his [John W. Johnston] new interest in military equipment and habits of ancient and medieval people; her cousin Sue Talliaferro has been staying with them. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends desired picture and apologies for it being faded [referring to a picture of Johnston and Lee taken together in Savannah,Ga. after the war]; is going to New York, [N.Y.], to the funeral \"of a valued old friend.\" 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of official report submitted by Major General James Longstreet, 10 June 1862, on the Battle of Seven Pines.1 pp. Cy of DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of events since JEJ's departure from St. Louis. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sent photograph of his \"lovely darling\" [wife, Lydia (McLane) Johnston], and grieves over her death. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his proposed trip to St. Louis, and points west to inspect \"roads\"; hopes [Don Carlos] Buell will be named superintendant of the Coast Survey; discusses condition of [Henry Jackson] Hunt. 4 pp. Including typescript. 1 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains of extremely hot weather; explains that he has no foreign correspondents from which he could acquire psotage stamps [in reference to WFL's stamp collection]. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns republication of articles on the war which appeared in the North American Review. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of his office being in his home and that his hours are 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; invites him to use his home if he [GBJ] attends the medical convention in Washington, [D.C.]. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests that she show to Eliza [(Johnston) Hughes] the letters she has of Judge (Thomas T.) Bouldin announcing Charles' [Clement Johnston] death, and his [JEJ] fathers' [Peter Johnston] death. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of a St. Louis paper. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWas impressed by his conduct at Yorktown and 7 Pines; applied for his appointment to a vacancy in 1864; the recommendation may have been held up in the office of Gen. [Braxton] Bragg. 2 pp. ALS. Including p.s., from J. E. Johnston, to Gen. D. H. Hill, explaining that his questions pertained to what sort of paper he should write -- not because of \"the fear of entangling myself.\" 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges receipt of a St. Louis paper. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't hope to see Johnston until the weather warms; discusses financial difficulties related to civil and political rights. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReminisces about family ties with his [SSL] grandparents [Anna Marie (Mason) Lee and Sydney Smith Lee]; is very proud of him and always happy to hear from him. 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Gantt would move to Washington and leave his \"unfashionable\" location; discusses reasons for [Benjamin Stoddard] Ewell being refused a professorship at William and Mary after using at least $15,000 of his own money to save it; his tour of inspection will be delayed until Congress appropriates the money. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on fashions in St. Louis; opinions of slavery; and a defense of [Richard S.] Ewell against attacks by [P.G.T.] Beauregard. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails Confederate blunders in the areas of buying up cotton to sell for arms, and not moving against McClellan in force in 1862, or putting Lee in command on May 31, [1862?]; also Bragg not capturing Union troops in West Tennessee; troops in Arkansas not being transferred to Mississippi, and Hood being put opposite Sherman instead of Hardee or Stewart. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives account of his recent trip through the Rocky Mountains and on to the Pacific Ocean, and of all the land's beauty. 3 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad no idea of the disaster to the Democratic party; describes a situation in Williamsburg as being the consequence of a large number of Negroes brought there by the military occupation; Gettysburg will not be as bad as the effect of Negro supremacy; Henry A. Wise turned Democrat to run for Governor; doesn't understand why Gantt's St. Louis house won't sell; as a child, heard much discussion of the authorship of the \"Junius\" letters, and feels Lord Lyttelton is a good possibility; death of a niece. 3 pp. ALS. including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends news of death of General [Henry] Hunt -- an old friend. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs concerned about her father's [John W. Johnston] relapses, but cannot come to visit yet due to preparing his office for its next occupant; tells of preparation of the court of the great \"pension building\" for the inauguration ballroom. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses use of contributed funds to buy a house for Mrs. [Henry] Hunt and her other funds; and strategies for Congressional aid for her. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Johnston's presence at an Inter-State Drill to be held in Nashville. 1 p. TLS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Johnston's election to the honorary vice presidency of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. 1 p. LS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConveys suggestion of a dinner for the Comte de Paris; suggests dinner be in private, including only Mr. [Robert M.] McLane and a nephew to entertain the Comte's son. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for his expression of approval toward the plans of Grand Reunion of the \"Blue and Gray\" to be held at Chicago, [Ill.], during the Exposition in 1893; gives ideas about a parade, and a pavillion being erected to exhibit relics of the [Civil] War from both sides. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sorry to hear he has been ill, and hopes that he is recovering \"for there are few men whom the old Confederates need as much as...yourself.\" 1 p. LS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpressions of hope for a speedy recovery. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he will not be able to attend the funeral service of [McLane s brother-in-law] JEJ; expressions of sorry and sympathy. 2 pp. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pp. Cy of DS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the prejudices of a single non-combatant\" in opposition to \"the preference of so many thousand fighting men.\" 1 p. ALS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. ACS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts invitation to call; invites Mrs. McLane to join Mr. and Mrs. Milman and her breakfast. 2 pp. ANS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pp. TMs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e44 p. DF of D.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete. 10 pp. Ms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 pp. Ams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 p. Ph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted by D. Appleton \u0026amp; Co. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on the great improvements in the school; is pleased her aunt has a good gardener and describes their gardens at school; did not practice her music enough at home so Mr. Bozzaotra criticizes her time; lists the gloves, corsets, shoes, and handkerchiefs she needs, and asks for Corinne in French. 2 pp. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on various aunts and uncles, including \"Uncle Joe\" [Joseph E. Johnston]; unhappy that she will not see Preston for 2 years; mentions that the school has 25 or 26 students - mainly ones who were at \"Liberty.\" 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on the lack of letters from Preston and on activities of Uncle Peter [Johnston] and Aunt Jane. Enclosed is a lengthy postscript from Ed[ward] W[illia]m Johnston teasing him on his new position and describing the fate of the school at Liberty and his at Botetourt Springs; mentions pleasant neighborhoods. 2 pp TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChastises him for not writing. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImagines that Preston's letters to her have gone to the Springs, where she plans to go to attend at least one more session of Uncle E[dward William Johnston]'s school; would be there now except neither Uncle Ben nor Uncle John can take her; inquires about Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston]. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWanted to join Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] at the Springs but it meant Aunt Sally would be alone too long; lengthy news of various aunts and uncles and the possibility that some of them may move to Texas. 2 pp. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks his preference on being called \"brother\" or \"Preston,\" for Aunt Sally says \"Pres\" is disrespectful; lengthy news of various uncles and aunts and her fear that she will miss seeing Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] at the Springs; describes Cherie's [Mrs. Edward W. Johnston] drinking problem. 2 pp. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for more frequent letters; only time for writing letters is one hour at night; has no news of relatives. 2 pp. TCy. Including TCy of N from Ed[ward] W[illia]m Johnston, [Botetourt Springs, Va.], to [John] Pres[ton Johnston, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.], Feb[ruar]y 22, 1840, sending news of Jo[seph E. Johnston] who is at Cape Florida but will probably go to Washington late in the month, and from there be sent to the Northern frontier. 2 pp. TCy;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends Eliza M. Johnston's school report for February 1840. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends news of various relatives including report that Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] is expected to return to Washington this monh. 2 pp. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston]'s plan to return to Florida, and the poor condition of Uncle Edward [W. Johnston's] school, including the deaths of 3 former students. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a recent picnic given by Mrs. General Watts with mint julip lacking in water; mentions various aunts and uncles; and inquires about a missing portrait of Uncle Benjamin. 2 pp. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends her report for June with an explanation of a few bad marks; describes Mr. Goodsicki of Richmond, the new dancing master; inquires about Uncle John [B. Floyd]. 2 pp. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites before leaving for Richmond where she looks forward to spending the winter; inquires about \"Cousin Eliza\" Carrington and \"the General\"; knows Uncle Edward [W. Johnston] is hurt that she is going to Mr. Perieo's school instead of returning to his. 2 pp. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms of her recent confirmation by Bishop [William] Meade; reports Aunt Jane's move to Tuscaloosa and Cousin Maria's death. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of many friends and relatives who are ill or dead. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMust work hard the rest of the session for she found herself behind upon her return; needs corsets, handkerchiefs and a white dress. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets her Aunt's uneasiness but feels it is groundless and that \"Uncle\" will return home soon; has little time because of the concert and review lessons; needs shoes for she has \"nearly danced out\" those she has. 1 p. TCy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e88 pp. MsV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e42 pp. MsV.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited by Richard M. McMurry. 46 pp. Typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited by Richard M. McMurry. 59 pp. Typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdited by Richard M. McMurry. 54 pp. Typescript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 pp. PM.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost entries are headed Meridian, [Miss.], or Dalton, [Ga.]. 183 pp. MsV. Including: a memo, Jan[uar]y 30, 1862 of Thomas Jordan, A[ssistant] Adj[utant] Gen[era]l Head Quarters, 18th Comp[an]y, [?], on $694.50 spent in keeping open communications with Washington, D.C. 2 pp.; newspaper clipping, n.d., about a seech of [CSA] Senator Semmes attacking Johnston. 1 p.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e52 pp. MsV. including Cys of Ls relating to the Kansas expedition. November 1, 1858 - June 22, 1859. 15 pp. Also including miscellaneous financial notes. 7 pp. MsV. 1. Not filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMsV. 2. Not filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e68 p. MsV. Including a Cy of LS from L[eonidas] Polk, Demapolis, [Alabama?], to Gen[era]l J. E. Johnston, n.p., May 4, 1864. 1 p. Also including \"Directions given by Gen[era]l Johnston for the evacuation of the line at Yorktown,\" n.d. 2 pp. Also including a memorandum of agreement, April 18, 1865, between General Johnston and Sherman for the surrender of the Confederate troops, with associated letters and notes by B. S. Ewell. 10 pp. [Portions of this volume were copied for the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.] MsV 3.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e237 pp. MsV. Including index to the first 52 pp. Also including a Telegram Book for 1 February 1862-3 March 1862. 9 pp. MsV. 4. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 pp. MsV. Including NCls, 1863-1864, collected by B.S. Ewell about J.E. Johnston. 44 pp. Also including loose NCls, mainly 1891, on Johnston's death and funeral. 12 pp. The General Orders were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" MsV. 5. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e270 pp. MsV. This volume was copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" MsV. 6. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding his dispatches during the siege of Jackson, Mississippi. 64 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost dispatches are from Morton on Meridian, Mississippi. Parts of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" 72 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost letters are from Meridian, Mississippi, or Dalton, Georgia, and some are lengthy reports of Johnston's command. 103 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e131 pp. MsV. Including a report of Benjamin S. Ewell's visit to Richmond, 8-20 APril 1864. 16 pp. Also including B.S. Ewell's comparison of the campaigns in Virginia and Georgia in the spring and summer of 1864. 10 pp. Also including tabulations of strengths and losses, 7 December 1863-9 July 1864. 3 pp. Also including a narrative by B.S. Ewell, 5 August 1864, on Johnston's removal from command. 2 pp. Copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 pp. MsV. Including Cys of Ls, 29 April 1862-28 June 1863, from J.E. Johnston, to Lydian McLane Johnston. 10 pp. Also including telegrams, 4 May 1864-20 May 1864. 4 pp. Also including a report, 15 February 1865, of General Hood while commanding the Army of Tennessee, 18 July 1864-23 January 1865. 17 pp. Also including statistics on the Manassas Army, 31 December 1861. 1 pp. Also including Df. of Ls by Benjamin S. Ewell, n.d. 2 pp. Portions of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the Army of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e121 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pp. MsV. Including Joseph E. Johnston's notes on General W.T. Sherman's Memoirs. 3 pp. Also including note of General T.G. Rhett's address. 1 p. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e48 pp. MsV. Including Returns of Troops, 17 March 1865-24 April 1865. 5 pp. Also including a memo on wounded Confederate and Federal troops. 1 p. Also including NCls regarding Johnston, 1864, 37 pp., and loose clippings, 2 pp. Portions of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e188 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e204 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e204 pp. MsV. Filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinciple accounts are with Major A.D. Banks and D. Appleton \u0026amp; Co. MsV. 125 pp. Not filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e150 pp. MsV. Including copies of correspondence regarding his insurance business in Richmond, Va., 20 February 1875-5 June 1878. 113 pp. Also including correspondence with the Home Insurance COmpany, headed Washington, D.C., 19 January 1883-19 February 1883. 4 pp. Not filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives accounts for travel in North Carolina and Virginia, as well as population counts of cities in those states; also account of Joseph E. Johnston with Pan Electric Association. 11 pp. MsV. Not filmed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA one page letter sent from General Joseph E. Johnston to Brigadier General John H. Kelly regarding the transport and exchange of unfit cavalry horses. 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Johnston, C.S.A. General during the American Civil War, including correspondence which reflect his long military career and interest in his nephews, John Warfield Johnston and John Preston Johnston.","The papers include a diary, 1857, of Johnston's survey of the southern boundary of Kansas and eighteen volumes of Civil War dispatches and telegrams.","The collection also includes a diary, 1 May-31 July 1864, of Thomas B. Mackall; letters received by Louis McLane (including letters from Andrew Jackson and Lafayette) and typescripts of letters by Eliza Johnston Hughes.","Subjects concern Braxton Bragg, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, William Joseph Hardee, George Ben Johnston, and the American Civil War (including the Atlanta Campaign of 1864). Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, Jubal Early, Thomas Tasker Gantt, Josiah Gorgas, Wade Hampton, D.H. Hill, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet and W.T. Sherman (General Order #18 of Johnston surrendering and giving terms to Sherman); as well as members of Johnston's family, Beverly R. Johnston, John Preston Johnston and John Warfield Johnston.","A list of books in the Rare Book Collection which were owned by Joseph E. Johnston is in Box 1. Accession 2001.35 addition filed in Box 1.","The Civil War dispatch and telegram books are available on microfilm for use in Swem Library or the microfilm may be requested via inter-library loan. The Joseph E. Johnston Papers, 1825-1891, in Swem Library's microforms area is on 6 reels, call number E467.1 .J74 A2.","Discusses his mother's recent death. 2 pp. ALS.","Discusses a recent change [marriage to Ann Bernard] in his father's life which will make it less solitary; must decide by June whether to remain in the Army and choose the Infantry or the Artillery. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning the death of McLane's father, the office made vacant by his death, and the introduction of Mr. F. B. Ogden by this letter. 2 pp. LS.","Discusses the forces gathering for the coming Revolution [of 1830]. 1 p. ALS.","Concerning a strong interest and desire for prosperity for the United States. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerns procedure for the presentation of copies of publications of the Commissioners of Public Records to the United States. 3 pp. ADF and L.","Is not in love, though from time to time feels tenderness towards and interest in the appearance and conversation of a particular woman. 4 pp. ALS.","Is anxious to see \"those who remain\" [after the deaths of his father and brother]; saw John Preston \"at the university\"; comments on the matrimonial propensity of young people; is susceptible to the charms of so many women that they neutralize each other. 3 pp. ALS.","Discusses plans for Louisa's son John [W. Johnston], and the need for John to travel on his own; mentions various relatives he has seen and Jane's plans; missed seeing \"Mama in Richmond.\" 4 pp. ALS.","Had a miserable march through the country and is in quite a bad humor; describes foiled plans to go to Richmond; the weather has been as cold as a Virginia winter; gossip of Harrison [?] traveling to Augusta, [Ga.], to see a lady. 3 pp. ALS.","Is going back to Old Point Comfort, [Va.]; describes the \"delicious moonlight nights\" and the \"very pretty Indian girls.\" 2 pp. ALS.","Discussion of money matters; hopes to make a trip to Florida in the winter; talk of a horserace in which he lost $750.00; needs a horse for fox-hunting; cannot visit due to his [BRJ] \"bachelor\" state. 3 pp. ALS.","Is on his way to assist Gen[era]l Scott in the war against the Seminoles; describes his journey south; waiting for a steamboat to take them down the St. John's River, [Fla.]; describes the Army and gives the number of Indians to be estimated at about 3500, although he thinks that figure is exaggerated; soldiers complaining of having to boil and eat pork; heard from John that all of their Negroes had been sold and that all of the \"affairs\" were still unsettled; is saddened that Sam [a slave] was sold. 2 pp. ALS.","Gives his reasons for resigning; is now employed in the Top[ograophi]c Bureau; news of Edward and Webb separating, and Edward composing literary works - probably on the life of Patrick Henry; has heard of his [BRJ] \"matrimonial intentions\" and warns him not to be rash; wishes for him to meet some of the lovely ladies in Washington. 3 pp. ALS.","Appoints Mr. [John Preson] Johnston to the Military Academy, but cannot appoint Stephen J. Crockett, as regulations allow only one cadet per congressional district. 1 p. ALS.","Philosophical letter giving advice about writing letters, suffering through hard times and looking upon him [JEJ] as a brother, not a uncle. 3 pp. ALS.","Tells of upcoming trips to Elizabeth Town, N.J., to meet General Scott at Head Quarters, then on to Trenton, and then to Washington, [D.C.]. he will not, however, be able to stop to visit him [JPJ] due to troop movements; gives travel instructions and descriptions of a new black trunk for him. 3 pp. ALS.","I sorry, but cannot send any money because he doesn't have any; gives more detailed travel instructions for Pres to follow on his trip from Washington, through Baltimore, and on to Philadelphia and Trenton, including the use of a steamboat. 2 pp, ALS,","Gives instructions as to where and how he will receive some money from a friend of his [JEJ] in Washington. 1 p. ALS","Is glad he is enjoying school so much, and encourages him \"to make a good use of the faculties nature has given...\"; hopes to visit in the latter part of October; discusses a survey of an area east of the St. Regis which will keep him busy outside until the weather turns cool; the President and the Sec. of War have visited, and \"peace and tranquility are restored\"; tell Lizzie to write. 3 pp. ALS. including typescript, 3 pp.","Is happy he has become so \"naturalized\" to school, but cautions him not to rely too heavily on his present knowledge of mathematics; he [JPJ] should feel lucky that his Uncle Bev wrote to him, as he never writes to anyone; will stop by and see him in 10 days, but only for a few hours, as neither have much time; has received accounts of Harvey Michele's \"Texas Scheme\" from cousin John; other family news. 3 pp. ALS.","Was disappointed to find that Lizzie was still at Burke's Garden, and not in school -- hopes that will be taken care of soon; news of visit to Edward's farm and his horse \"Tigertail\"; comments on disposition and application of JPJ. 2 pp, ALS.","Permission for J[ohn] P[reston] Johnstone [sic] to move from one barracks room to another. Signed also by R. Delarfield, Supt. of M.A., and by J. Hayfoot. 1 p. DS.","Is on his way back to Washington from Florida; has had gratifying accounts of Pres in school, and urges him [BRJ] to write him; speaks lovingly of Pres and gives Mrs. Carrington much of the credit for his [JPJ] upbringing; discussion of Eliza and her education, or lack thereof; wants family new. 3 pp. ALS.","Saw Professor Capt. Blis who gave a satisfying account of his progress at school; has just returned from southern Florida where he spent the winter; comments on the state of military affairs in that territory and a bill before Congress to raise additional forces to fight in the Seminole War; gives advice and to read the greats authors and Latin \"in the original\" if there is spare time. 3 pp. ALS.","Gives an explanation of why he could not visit him, and expresses gratification and pride in all of his accomplishments; is located in the country between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, surveying the land for possible fortification; comments on the abundance of trout and whitefish, and how much Uncle Edward would enjoy fishing there. 3 pp. ALS.","Will not be going to Florida for the winter; Edward is considering selling his land and settling in Abingdon, Lynchburg, or Columbia; they had a \"preserving\" snow storm on the 18th, which signaled the beginning of winter; there is a truce in Florida now, and a group of Seminole chiefs, including Sam Jones, wild Cat, and Tiger Tail are traveling to Washington to make the final arrangements; hopes that Lizzie will be sent to Washington instead of Richmond, and comments that he would like her to know that he has not proposed to anyone, just like the song \"I Don't Propose.\" 2 pp. ALS.","1 p. Ms. Including Xcy of Ms. 1 p.","Just returned from an extended visit to the Sabine, and is concerned because he has not heard from him in a while. 1 p. ALS.","Will be spending the summer in Mackinac, instructions to get any clothing needed from Sam[uel] Frost, a merchant tailor in New York, [N.Y.], and to have them charged to his [JEJ] bill. 1 p. ALS.","A school friend of JPJ's, Thompson Mason, will be coming soon, and JEJ wishes him to be welcomed and treated well, and also his mother; is still on his journey to Lake Michigan, and is not sure when he will be back by West Point; hopes he [JPJ] is enjoying his furlough, and wishes for him to stop and see Col. Preston, Mr. Hopkins, and Mrs. Merrick. 3 pp. ALS.","Gives his upcoming itinerary; news of his [JPJ] clothes being sent by the tailor, [Samuel] Frost. 1 p. ALS.","1 p. ANS.","Has heard about an epidemic at West Point and is anxious about his [JPJ] health; mention of a cadet Mason, near death and hopes that it is not his friend [Thompson Mason], has been in Buffalo about 15 days and may remain another month; is interested about news from Va. relatives. 1 p. ALS.","Consoles him [JPJ] about the lack of correspondence from his relatives; gives excuse of being ill for his lack of correspondence; tells of his great love for him and mentions also his love of a sweetheart; Cousin Tom's wedding has been postponed until the Fall; Lizzie is in Columbia and spends her free time at Cousin Margaret's home; gossip of a possible duel between Mr. [Henry A.] Wise and Mr. [Edward] Stanley [sic] Stanly; talk of Affghan [sic] war and the end of the Florida war [Seminole War]. 3 pp. ALS.","Mention of his [JPJ] court martial; praise of Gen[era]l Worth; some old family news. 2 pp. ALS.","Explains the lack of correspondence during the winter; discussion on his [JPJ] future, involving going into industry or remaining in the Army, giving pros and cons of each; had a pleasant trip to New Orleans, [La.]; comment about women being \"pleasant and attractive creatures, beyond denial,\" but only \"when one has nothing else to think of, or to excite him.\" 3 pp. ALS.","Will not be able to come to graduation due to detainment \"by authority\"; gives advice on selection fo a regiment or a corp; is on his way to the Northeast Boundary after Houlton, Maine. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning JEJ's recent marriage; sword is in safe keeping; and questions JEJ on future travel plans. 4 pp ALS.","Mentions many mutual friends in England, and Mrs. McLane's family. 4 pp. ALS. including a TCy of ALS. 1 p.","Asks him [JPJ] to obtain leave to come for a visit as he cannot leave; explains note to Lieut. Knowlton. 2 pp. ALS. Including ANS from J[oseph] E. Johnston, New York, [N.Y.], to [?] Knowlton, [West Point, N.Y.?], 15 November [18]45, asking a favor of lending JPJ some money so he may be able to visit him [JEJ]. 1 p.","Mentions friends, [?] May and Pike Graham, with army in Mexico and speaks of companies raised in Washington Co., Va., and vicinity. 3 pp. ALS.","Orders Lieut. J[ohn] P[reston] Johnston to detatched service and Lieut. R[ichard] H. L. Johnston to duty under him. 1 p. DS.","Letter of introduction for his son John Wickham Leigh. 1 p. ALS.","Mention of the President's [Millard Fillmore] message and the report of the General-in-Chief [of the Army?], and how it will affect the Top[ographica]l Corps; yearns for a promotion, and asks him to put in a good word for him; mentions he has 8 or 10 scars from battles with Indians; also suggests General [Winfield] Scott or General Dawson of Georgia for recommendations; asks for \"little Lissie's\" [Eliza (Johnston) Hughes] new husband's name. 2 pp. Pst. (From an original belonging to W[illia]m Armour, New York City, N.Y.)","7 pp. D.","Opinion confirming Joseph E. Johnston's rank as Brevet Colonel. 10 pp. DS.","Congratulations on Johnston's appointment as Quartermaster General of the Army. 1 p. ALS.","Concerns the Secession Convention held in Richmond. 3 pp. ALS.","1 item. See Oversize File.","Notifies Gorgas of a telegraphed dispatch regarding captured muskets. 1 p. ALS.","Reports that Col. [Nathan George] Evans engaged. most of the day yesterday in battle with the enemy, utilizing twelve regts. and five batteries, near the Potomac River; heavy casualties and 200 prisoners taken, as well as six field pieces. 1 p. ALS.","1 p. DS. See Oversize File.","List of killed, wounded, and missing in the battle of Ball's Bluff, [Va.], fought 21 Oct. 1861. 11 p. D.","1 p. DS. See Oversize File.","One letter written by General Joseph Eggleston Johnston of the Confederate Army to fellow General P. G. T. Beauregard, replying to the latter's proposed troop movement. The letter is dated January 14, 1862, and is sent from the Northern Virginia headquarters of the Confederate Army. A transcript of the letter and biographical information on General Johnston in also included.","1 p. ALS. Urges keeping the York River open to gunboats [two days prior to the Battle of Williamsburg]; Hill not to command his rear guard and to continue the fire after midnight; adds postscript \"I would like to have the vessels sunk.\"","Map. 1 item.","Agrees to send Capt. Mason and Lt. Col. Harvey to him as soon as possible; is pleased that he is \"again able to take the field.\" 1 p. ALS.","1 p. DS.","Acknowledges receipt of Dick's letter to Col. W. Hoffman, Comissary General of Prisoners, Washington, [D.C.], 5 March 1863, regarding sending of 150 citizen prisoners for exchange. [with extensive endorsements]. 4 pp. Cy of DS.","Lists 14 men and 11 women. 1 p. Cy of DC. Including Cy of D from F. A. Dick, Lt. Col. Prov[ost] Mar[shall] Gen[eral], 12 May 1863, listing 14 family members to be passed through the lines with their husbands and fathers. 1 p.","Sends message urging JEJ to report about the fall of Vicksburg at the Court of Enquiry at Montgomery, [Ala.]. 1 p. ALS.","1 p. PD.","1 p. PD.","Discussion of the transfer of Major Barton from Gen[era]l Pol's command to his, and the misuse of Army funds; strategic discussion of upcoming battle in March, the deterioration of their horses, and [U.S.] Grant taking advantage of Longstreet's poor artillery and driving him back into Va.; reminds him to secure all his papers at home as \"they will be very important to me after the war\"; description of transfer of family silver through Nicati [sic] [Nicketti Floyd Johnston?]. 2 pp. ALS.","Regrets losing him because of government orders; had high expectations for his help and from his expedition. 1 p. ALS.","\"Report of Gen[era]l Hood.\" 1 p. Incomplete.","Gen[era]l Cobb is to address the people tonight; gives opinion of how to regroup and states that \"you [JEJ] alone can bring back the old soldiers to their colors or engage other to join\"; describes feeling of bitterness for Mr. [Jefferson] Davis, and that his supporters say \"he had proved himself utterly incapable of conducting the war\"; talk of Lee's popularity waning also if he \"doesn't at once, show independence and pursue a course at least masked by being widely different from Mr. D[avis'], as well as people thinking that he [Lee] did not prevent him [JEJ] from being removed, not to mention not restoring him [JEJ] back.\" 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning statistics of men and supplies; and prefers to have a commader other than Gen. Bragg for he \"has made me a scapegoat.\" 2 pp. ALS.","1 p. DS. See Oversize File.","1 p. DS.","Table of the Return of the Effective Strength of the Army of Tennessee, listing numbers in Lee's Corps, Total Infantry, and Kanapanx's Battery. 1 p. DS.","Discusses President Lincoln's assassination in relation to the South's strength in the Civil War. 3 pp. ALS.","1 p. AMsS.","1 p. AMsS.","Is writing a narrative of the war, but has lost many of his papers, asks Cummings' opinions, especially on the subjects of campaigns in Tennessee in 1863 and Georgia in 1864. 3 pp. ALS.","1 p. PD.","Concerning the campaign in Georgia in 1864. Cy of LS. 23 pp. Including a Cy of Ms. written by J. C. Thompson, ca. 1861, and later published during the [Civil] War, entitled \"Gen. Johnston and Gen. Hood.\" 5 pp.","Instructions to send a trunk from Edward's adopted daughter to Peter at the first opportunity; contents are papers, possibly articles written for the newspaper he [Peter] published. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning the \"inaccuracy of your recollection of my course\" and an account of his recollections of the event [mentioned in an earlier letter]. 3 pp. ALS.","1 p. PD.","Sympathy note about the death of his son, Willie. 2 pp. ALS.","Asks for a letter of recommendation and introduction so he may join the Corps of Cavalry in Egypt; advises him to remain quiet about any disharmony between Mr. Davis and himself because of upsetting the \"thousands who are friendly to both\"; urges him to prepare for publication his reports to \"justify...motives and...actions\" by him [JEJ]. 4 pp. ALS.","Concerning the condition of the 33rd Regiment, Va. Volunteers, immediately after the close of the first battle of Manassas, 21 July 1861. 6 pp ALS.","Concerns an article on \"the flag question\" by Beauregard to be submitted to the April 1872 Baltimore Southern Magazine; also the state of the government in Louisiana -- \"quasi-revolution.\" 3 pp. ALS.","Concerns over brother Peter; question about the Confederate States' archives; had a pleasant visit from Mr. and Mrs. Holmes and their young son. 4 pp. ALS.","Sends the final draft of his statement; report only alludes to \"saving Lee's Army\"; struck out of his attacks on [Jefferson] Davis who \"poor Floyd\" called \"Mr. Jefferson Davidson.\" 4 pp. ALS.","sends check to furnish brother Peter's new room, sends holiday greetings. 1 p. ALS.","Concerning a $500 contribution to the church; the winter weather; \"another tour to raise means for completing our Church here\"; and love to Mr. and Mrs. Johnston and regards to friends in Atlanta. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerns flag of the \"Johnston Light Infantry\" to be presented by Mrs. Johnston. 2 pp. ALS.","Her letter was his first news of her grandmother, his sister's [Louisa Smith Bowen] illness; expressions of family love; has had acute rheumatism since January. 3 pp. ALS.","Talk of funding the repairs needed for the family burial grounds; \"Lily\" will be traveling to the Springs soon for her annual stay, as prescribed by her physician. 2 pp. ALS.","Wife \"Lily\" suffering from Neauralgia; grief over death of brother [Beverly]; also settlement of Beverly's estate; financial matters concerned with brother Peter. 1 p. ALS.","Instructions to buy Beverly's silver tableware at the auction of his personal effects on the 10th if no other close relative wants it; anxious over brother Peter being alone - would like to hire someone to stay with him. 1 p. ALS.","Discussion of sale of family proprety, the storing of books, and the distributing of clothes to the poor; in agreement about brother Peter living in a hotel and will send money accordingly. 4 pp. ALS.","Since the Army of fifteen years past has changed considerably, he doesn't really recommend that Ben [Goerge Ben Johnston] become commissioned; feels that the Army has lowered its standards, and that there is some prejuice agaisnt Southerners; suggests law studies instead. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning events at first [Battle of] Manassas during Civil War. 3 pp. ALS.","Receipt for dues paid for June. 1 p. DS.","Concerning the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta and the recollection of events. 3 pp. ALS.","Relates recollections of JEJ's Cavalry leaving nothing behind to fall into enemy hands during his movement from Dalton to Atlanta. 3 pp. LS.","Concerning the loss of arms of Polk's Corps after it united with the Army of Tennessee in 1864. 2 pp. LS.","Discusses losses of men under his command in the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning Pettus' participation in the Dalton and Atlanta campaigns in Stephenson's Division of Hood's Corp. 2 pp. ALS.","Reminisces about his command in the CSA, and his memories of the Army of Tenessee. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning the loss of arms in the Georgia campaign, recollections of events and compliments about the campaign. 4 pp. ALS.","Concerning the loss of muskets, positions, panics...in the retreat from Dalton to Atlanta in 1864 and his recollection of events. 8 pp. ALS.","Concerning Hood's article published in the New Orleans papers and the statement of the loss of small arms; greatest loss was in 27 June 1864 when Gen. McPherson's army made an assault on the position at Kenesaw Mountain. 3 pp. ALS.","Concerning the statement by Col. Oladowski [?] as to the \"Georgia campaign\" in 1864 and Lowrey's recollections. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerning controversy between Gen. Hood and Johnston and Govan's recollections of events of Johnston's campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. 4 pp. ALS.","Concerning loss of arms in Georgia in [18]64 campaign and the reporting of surrounding events. 7 pp. ALS.","Discusses communication with General A. H. Colquitt. 2 pp. ALS.","Encloses a history for Johnston's use \"without any restrictions.\" 1 p. ALS. Including an AMsS by Ja[me]s M. Kennard, n.d., n.p. relating to a supposed message from Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress on Joseph E. Johnston's reinstatement. 25 pp.","Mr. Fields to re-enclose grave yard; lodging and financial arrangements for brother Peter. 2 pp. ALS.","Encloses his reply to Gen. George W. Mindil's pamphlet \"The Battle of Fair Oaks,\" as copied for the Court of Paris. 1 p. Cy of LS. Including Cy of Ms by Joseph E. Johnston. 20 pp.","Concerning Col. Marshall's address as not being an attack against JEJ, but rather a criticism of some statements of JEJ's in regard to the army around Richmond [during the war]. Comments on Marshall's address and includes points of controversy with his recollections with statistical information; corrects JEJ on points regarding himself and statements made about him and his command in JEJ's book; apologizes for mentioning these matters and does not do so to complain; mentions the courtesy and kindness which JEJ always treated him. \"You know that when any one undertakes to write a historical account of events, there is a right in the part of those who disagree with the writer, to criticize and analyze his statements.\" 6 pp. ALS.","Concerning the Georgia Brigade Lawton took to Virginia in June 1862 and the details surrounding the situation. 3 pp. ALS.","Has enclosed an extract from a letter of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston \"in the hope that it may be of some service to you and history.\" 1 p. ALS. Inclusing a Cy of LS from Jos[eph] E. Johnston, Savannah, [Ga.], to Colonel [John P. Nicholson], n.p., 14 April 1875, defending what he had written about a battle fought at Fair Oaks. 1 p.","Explanation of a delay in payment of a $1000 note. 2 pp. ALS.","Detailed comments on the Count of Paris' letters concerning the Battle of Seven Pines, defending what himself, Longstreet, [D. H.] Hill, and Smith had reported; also extensive defense of himself and descriptions of his and others' actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks; asks if he received an autograph note of Gen[era]l [Robert E.] Lee. 3 pp. ALS.","Invitation to attend and act as Chief Marshall at the unveiling of the Foley Statue of [\"Stonewall\"] Jackson on the 26th of October. 1 p. ALS.","Concerning the recent publication by the press of \"our late correspondence\"; the desire for you to accept the position of Marshall in chief on the 16th, and Mr. Valentine is interested in executing a bust of you. 1 p. ALS.","Economic discussion of the Hawaiian Treaty which will remove the rice tariff, and how it will affect the rice farmers in South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana; concern over land losing its value and people being forced out of work; alludes to North/South disputes over the problem, stating that the planter will be \"unable to stand up under the burden imposed upon him for the benefit of Northern manufacturers\"; asks him to vote against the treaty and to relay the same messages to Col. [Robert W.] Withers. 1 p. ALS.","Discusses Southern political systems, the Democratic nomination convention in St. Louis, and Northern attitudes toward the South. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 3 pp.","Thanks him for the \"handsome testimonial\" and tribute sent to him from such a \"noble chieftain.\" 2 pp. ALS.","Has learned through Judge [Robert W.] Hughes that he [JWJ] will support President Hayes' administration; expresses wish for him to withold support until he knows more fully the President's \"Southern policy\"; discussion of JWJ's son applying to West Point or just joining the Army. 2 pp. ALS.","Cancellation of plans due to wife's illness; discussion of his friend Haine [?], who was dissapointed because the P.O. Dept. appointment was not filled; he is now trying for the office of Marshall, which will be vacant on the expiration of the term of the incumbent, according to [Judge Robert W.] Hughes; hopes he [JWJ] will lend his support to Haine [?]. 3 pp. ALS.","Expression of friendship; gives correction of Pickett's strength of 4500 instead of 5500 as previously reported. 2 pp. ALS.","Ben has decided to settle in Richmond; [Robert W.] Hughes does not think that it is a wise move since it was flooded with medical men after the war and recommends Norfolk instead; also the comment that there is a strong Catholic influence [in Norfolk] which would also help Ben professionally. 4 pp. ALS.","Has sent application for Joe's [Johnston] benefit; feels that [Robert W.] Hughes has excellent sense and judgement [referring to his opinions of where Ben should set up a medical practice]. 1 p. ALS.","More discussions of Ben setting up medical practice in Richmond. 2 pp. ALS.","Requests that he be sent the Texas-Pacific R.R. Bill so that he may read it, as it is so unlike the Bill passed at the St. Louis Convention of 1975, he feels it will aid the South, and not the North; his friend, John C. Brown, is V[ice] Pres[iden]t of the Institution [governing the railroad?]. 1 p. ALS.","Discusses economy of the South and resulting problems; anti-military sentiments of the South; and character of Tilden and Hayes. 4 pp. ALS. including typescript. 3 pp.","Discussing the Greenbacker philosophy, the Electoral Commission, and the election; his views of the insurance profession; and his impressions of Tilden. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Again requests a copy of the Texas-Pacific R.R. Bill for his friend Robert Gourdin; would have asked Bev[erly] Tucker to send it, but he is in New Orleans, [La.], directing a convention; discussion of the reduction of the tobacco tax on Southern farmers. 1 p. ALS.","Gives glowing recommendation of Col. [Robert E.] Withers for a Democratic middle class office in the Senate; is glad to hear of his improved health; Gov. Randolph sent a copy of the new Army Bill; asks that he [JWJ] and Col. Withers read his comments on it. 1 p. ALS.","Writes on behalf of their kinsman James Southall who would like to be appointed to the new Geology professorship at the \"Va. University.\" 1p. ALS.","Will be happy to give Mr. McCloskey a recommendation on his application for an office; is pleased he sent out a circular; Lily still suffering from rheumatism. 3 pp. ALS.","Comments on a note on the F. J. Porter case and [Theodore Fitz] Randolph's speech; Lee and Jackson's operations against Pope [at 2nd Bull Run]; and the next Presidential election. 4 pp. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Comments on apparent Southern antipathy to politics; the approaching election, and the Democratic Party; will not be a candidate. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Is recovering from a bad sprain; believes a Democrat will win the Presidency, but a thorough civil service reform is not likely. 2 pp. ALS. including typerscript. 1 p.","Compares public morals and their effects on elections with those of 30 years ago, and discusses Hayes' use of the veto; and the ideal beauty of Pattsfield. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.","Discussion of quarrels amongst members of the Westmoreland Club and Capt. John S. Wise, and the rule of secrecy and voting; will be attending his [GBK] wedding. 2 pp. ALS.","Has written to Dr. Curry who is a member of the Board of Visitors [of the Medical College of Virginia?] about a professorship; also mention of Ben's bride. 1 p. ALS.","Send picture of his mother, who was a good friend of her [Mrs. Johnston] mother [Catherine May (Milligan) McLane] 2 pp. ALS.","Invitation to attend the reuinion of the First Kentucky Brigade of Infantry \"in the late war.\" 1 p. LS.","Criticism of Lincoln and Garfield; his views of the effect of a Southern victory, and comparisons of resources of North and South in 1861. 1 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Praises Frank Blair [Frances Preston Blair, Jr.]; finds the only well-founded sectional prejudice is that of favoring Virginia hams; slavery caused no inferiority of the people; continues a discussion of how the South could have won -- including more arms, a different Confederate President, and a strong move against Grant in late 1862; expresses opinion that Hardee or Stewart would have prevented Sherman's \"March to the Sea.\" 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Concerning the approaching dedication of the Washington monument and Rice's desire to have Johnston write a letter \"which would embody your estimate of Washington in his military capacity\" and would be bound in a sheaf for the celebration. 4 pp. ALS.","Gives background of a certain picture of General [Robert E.] Lee [and JEJ taken in Savannah after the Civil War], and the photographer's name, D.J. Ryan; sees her father often and describes his [John W. Johnston] new interest in military equipment and habits of ancient and medieval people; her cousin Sue Talliaferro has been staying with them. 2 pp. ALS.","Sends desired picture and apologies for it being faded [referring to a picture of Johnston and Lee taken together in Savannah,Ga. after the war]; is going to New York, [N.Y.], to the funeral \"of a valued old friend.\" 1 p. ALS.","Copy of official report submitted by Major General James Longstreet, 10 June 1862, on the Battle of Seven Pines.1 pp. Cy of DS.","News of events since JEJ's departure from St. Louis. 1 p. ALS.","Has sent photograph of his \"lovely darling\" [wife, Lydia (McLane) Johnston], and grieves over her death. 1 p. ALS.","Discusses his proposed trip to St. Louis, and points west to inspect \"roads\"; hopes [Don Carlos] Buell will be named superintendant of the Coast Survey; discusses condition of [Henry Jackson] Hunt. 4 pp. Including typescript. 1 pp.","Complains of extremely hot weather; explains that he has no foreign correspondents from which he could acquire psotage stamps [in reference to WFL's stamp collection]. 2 pp. ALS.","Concerns republication of articles on the war which appeared in the North American Review. 1 p. ALS.","Tells of his office being in his home and that his hours are 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; invites him to use his home if he [GBJ] attends the medical convention in Washington, [D.C.]. 2 pp. ALS.","Requests that she show to Eliza [(Johnston) Hughes] the letters she has of Judge (Thomas T.) Bouldin announcing Charles' [Clement Johnston] death, and his [JEJ] fathers' [Peter Johnston] death. 2 pp. ALS.","Acknowledges receipt of a St. Louis paper. 1 p. ALS.","Was impressed by his conduct at Yorktown and 7 Pines; applied for his appointment to a vacancy in 1864; the recommendation may have been held up in the office of Gen. [Braxton] Bragg. 2 pp. ALS. Including p.s., from J. E. Johnston, to Gen. D. H. Hill, explaining that his questions pertained to what sort of paper he should write -- not because of \"the fear of entangling myself.\" 1 p.","Acknowledges receipt of a St. Louis paper. 1 p. ALS.","Can't hope to see Johnston until the weather warms; discusses financial difficulties related to civil and political rights. 2 pp. ALS.","Reminisces about family ties with his [SSL] grandparents [Anna Marie (Mason) Lee and Sydney Smith Lee]; is very proud of him and always happy to hear from him. 1 p. ALS.","Wishes Gantt would move to Washington and leave his \"unfashionable\" location; discusses reasons for [Benjamin Stoddard] Ewell being refused a professorship at William and Mary after using at least $15,000 of his own money to save it; his tour of inspection will be delayed until Congress appropriates the money. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.","Comments on fashions in St. Louis; opinions of slavery; and a defense of [Richard S.] Ewell against attacks by [P.G.T.] Beauregard. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Details Confederate blunders in the areas of buying up cotton to sell for arms, and not moving against McClellan in force in 1862, or putting Lee in command on May 31, [1862?]; also Bragg not capturing Union troops in West Tennessee; troops in Arkansas not being transferred to Mississippi, and Hood being put opposite Sherman instead of Hardee or Stewart. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Gives account of his recent trip through the Rocky Mountains and on to the Pacific Ocean, and of all the land's beauty. 3 pp. ALS.","Had no idea of the disaster to the Democratic party; describes a situation in Williamsburg as being the consequence of a large number of Negroes brought there by the military occupation; Gettysburg will not be as bad as the effect of Negro supremacy; Henry A. Wise turned Democrat to run for Governor; doesn't understand why Gantt's St. Louis house won't sell; as a child, heard much discussion of the authorship of the \"Junius\" letters, and feels Lord Lyttelton is a good possibility; death of a niece. 3 pp. ALS. including typescript. 2 pp.","Sends news of death of General [Henry] Hunt -- an old friend. 2 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 1 p.","Is concerned about her father's [John W. Johnston] relapses, but cannot come to visit yet due to preparing his office for its next occupant; tells of preparation of the court of the great \"pension building\" for the inauguration ballroom. 2 pp. ALS.","Discusses use of contributed funds to buy a house for Mrs. [Henry] Hunt and her other funds; and strategies for Congressional aid for her. 4 pp. ALS. Including typescript. 2 pp.","Requests Johnston's presence at an Inter-State Drill to be held in Nashville. 1 p. TLS.","Concerning Johnston's election to the honorary vice presidency of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. 1 p. LS.","Conveys suggestion of a dinner for the Comte de Paris; suggests dinner be in private, including only Mr. [Robert M.] McLane and a nephew to entertain the Comte's son. 2 pp. ALS.","Asks for his expression of approval toward the plans of Grand Reunion of the \"Blue and Gray\" to be held at Chicago, [Ill.], during the Exposition in 1893; gives ideas about a parade, and a pavillion being erected to exhibit relics of the [Civil] War from both sides. 2 pp. ALS.","Is sorry to hear he has been ill, and hopes that he is recovering \"for there are few men whom the old Confederates need as much as...yourself.\" 1 p. LS.","Expressions of hope for a speedy recovery. 2 pp. ALS.","Regrets that he will not be able to attend the funeral service of [McLane s brother-in-law] JEJ; expressions of sorry and sympathy. 2 pp. ALS.","3 pp. Cy of DS.","Concerning \"the prejudices of a single non-combatant\" in opposition to \"the preference of so many thousand fighting men.\" 1 p. ALS.","1 p. ACS.","Accepts invitation to call; invites Mrs. McLane to join Mr. and Mrs. Milman and her breakfast. 2 pp. ANS.","5 pp. TMs.","44 p. DF of D.","Incomplete. 10 pp. Ms.","40 pp. Ams.","1 p. Ph.","Printed by D. Appleton \u0026 Co. 1 item.","Reports on the great improvements in the school; is pleased her aunt has a good gardener and describes their gardens at school; did not practice her music enough at home so Mr. Bozzaotra criticizes her time; lists the gloves, corsets, shoes, and handkerchiefs she needs, and asks for Corinne in French. 2 pp. TCy.","Comments on various aunts and uncles, including \"Uncle Joe\" [Joseph E. Johnston]; unhappy that she will not see Preston for 2 years; mentions that the school has 25 or 26 students - mainly ones who were at \"Liberty.\" 1 p. TCy.","Comments on the lack of letters from Preston and on activities of Uncle Peter [Johnston] and Aunt Jane. Enclosed is a lengthy postscript from Ed[ward] W[illia]m Johnston teasing him on his new position and describing the fate of the school at Liberty and his at Botetourt Springs; mentions pleasant neighborhoods. 2 pp TCy.","Chastises him for not writing. 1 p. TCy.","Imagines that Preston's letters to her have gone to the Springs, where she plans to go to attend at least one more session of Uncle E[dward William Johnston]'s school; would be there now except neither Uncle Ben nor Uncle John can take her; inquires about Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston]. 1 p. TCy.","Wanted to join Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] at the Springs but it meant Aunt Sally would be alone too long; lengthy news of various aunts and uncles and the possibility that some of them may move to Texas. 2 pp. TCy.","Asks his preference on being called \"brother\" or \"Preston,\" for Aunt Sally says \"Pres\" is disrespectful; lengthy news of various uncles and aunts and her fear that she will miss seeing Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] at the Springs; describes Cherie's [Mrs. Edward W. Johnston] drinking problem. 2 pp. TCy.","Asks for more frequent letters; only time for writing letters is one hour at night; has no news of relatives. 2 pp. TCy. Including TCy of N from Ed[ward] W[illia]m Johnston, [Botetourt Springs, Va.], to [John] Pres[ton Johnston, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.], Feb[ruar]y 22, 1840, sending news of Jo[seph E. Johnston] who is at Cape Florida but will probably go to Washington late in the month, and from there be sent to the Northern frontier. 2 pp. TCy;","Sends Eliza M. Johnston's school report for February 1840. 1 p. TCy.","Sends news of various relatives including report that Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston] is expected to return to Washington this monh. 2 pp. TCy.","Mentions Uncle Jo[seph E. Johnston]'s plan to return to Florida, and the poor condition of Uncle Edward [W. Johnston's] school, including the deaths of 3 former students. 1 p. TCy.","Describes a recent picnic given by Mrs. General Watts with mint julip lacking in water; mentions various aunts and uncles; and inquires about a missing portrait of Uncle Benjamin. 2 pp. TCy.","Sends her report for June with an explanation of a few bad marks; describes Mr. Goodsicki of Richmond, the new dancing master; inquires about Uncle John [B. Floyd]. 2 pp. TCy.","Writes before leaving for Richmond where she looks forward to spending the winter; inquires about \"Cousin Eliza\" Carrington and \"the General\"; knows Uncle Edward [W. Johnston] is hurt that she is going to Mr. Perieo's school instead of returning to his. 2 pp. TCy.","Informs of her recent confirmation by Bishop [William] Meade; reports Aunt Jane's move to Tuscaloosa and Cousin Maria's death. 1 p. TCy.","Writes of many friends and relatives who are ill or dead. 1 p. TCy.","Must work hard the rest of the session for she found herself behind upon her return; needs corsets, handkerchiefs and a white dress. 1 p. TCy.","Regrets her Aunt's uneasiness but feels it is groundless and that \"Uncle\" will return home soon; has little time because of the concert and review lessons; needs shoes for she has \"nearly danced out\" those she has. 1 p. TCy.","88 pp. MsV.","42 pp. MsV.","Edited by Richard M. McMurry. 46 pp. Typescript.","Edited by Richard M. McMurry. 59 pp. Typescript.","Edited by Richard M. McMurry. 54 pp. Typescript.","19 pp. PM.","Most entries are headed Meridian, [Miss.], or Dalton, [Ga.]. 183 pp. MsV. Including: a memo, Jan[uar]y 30, 1862 of Thomas Jordan, A[ssistant] Adj[utant] Gen[era]l Head Quarters, 18th Comp[an]y, [?], on $694.50 spent in keeping open communications with Washington, D.C. 2 pp.; newspaper clipping, n.d., about a seech of [CSA] Senator Semmes attacking Johnston. 1 p.","52 pp. MsV. including Cys of Ls relating to the Kansas expedition. November 1, 1858 - June 22, 1859. 15 pp. Also including miscellaneous financial notes. 7 pp. MsV. 1. Not filmed.","MsV. 2. Not filmed.","68 p. MsV. Including a Cy of LS from L[eonidas] Polk, Demapolis, [Alabama?], to Gen[era]l J. E. Johnston, n.p., May 4, 1864. 1 p. Also including \"Directions given by Gen[era]l Johnston for the evacuation of the line at Yorktown,\" n.d. 2 pp. Also including a memorandum of agreement, April 18, 1865, between General Johnston and Sherman for the surrender of the Confederate troops, with associated letters and notes by B. S. Ewell. 10 pp. [Portions of this volume were copied for the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.] MsV 3.","237 pp. MsV. Including index to the first 52 pp. Also including a Telegram Book for 1 February 1862-3 March 1862. 9 pp. MsV. 4. Filmed.","21 pp. MsV. Including NCls, 1863-1864, collected by B.S. Ewell about J.E. Johnston. 44 pp. Also including loose NCls, mainly 1891, on Johnston's death and funeral. 12 pp. The General Orders were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" MsV. 5. Filmed.","270 pp. MsV. This volume was copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" MsV. 6. Filmed.","6 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Including his dispatches during the siege of Jackson, Mississippi. 64 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Most dispatches are from Morton on Meridian, Mississippi. Parts of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" 72 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Most letters are from Meridian, Mississippi, or Dalton, Georgia, and some are lengthy reports of Johnston's command. 103 pp. MsV. Filmed.","131 pp. MsV. Including a report of Benjamin S. Ewell's visit to Richmond, 8-20 APril 1864. 16 pp. Also including B.S. Ewell's comparison of the campaigns in Virginia and Georgia in the spring and summer of 1864. 10 pp. Also including tabulations of strengths and losses, 7 December 1863-9 July 1864. 3 pp. Also including a narrative by B.S. Ewell, 5 August 1864, on Johnston's removal from command. 2 pp. Copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.","54 pp. MsV. Including Cys of Ls, 29 April 1862-28 June 1863, from J.E. Johnston, to Lydian McLane Johnston. 10 pp. Also including telegrams, 4 May 1864-20 May 1864. 4 pp. Also including a report, 15 February 1865, of General Hood while commanding the Army of Tennessee, 18 July 1864-23 January 1865. 17 pp. Also including statistics on the Manassas Army, 31 December 1861. 1 pp. Also including Df. of Ls by Benjamin S. Ewell, n.d. 2 pp. Portions of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the Army of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.","121 pp. MsV. Filmed.","6 pp. MsV. Including Joseph E. Johnston's notes on General W.T. Sherman's Memoirs. 3 pp. Also including note of General T.G. Rhett's address. 1 p. Filmed.","48 pp. MsV. Including Returns of Troops, 17 March 1865-24 April 1865. 5 pp. Also including a memo on wounded Confederate and Federal troops. 1 p. Also including NCls regarding Johnston, 1864, 37 pp., and loose clippings, 2 pp. Portions of this volume were copied for the \"Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.\" Filmed.","188 pp. MsV. Filmed.","204 pp. MsV. Filmed.","204 pp. MsV. Filmed.","Principle accounts are with Major A.D. Banks and D. Appleton \u0026 Co. MsV. 125 pp. Not filmed.","150 pp. MsV. Including copies of correspondence regarding his insurance business in Richmond, Va., 20 February 1875-5 June 1878. 113 pp. Also including correspondence with the Home Insurance COmpany, headed Washington, D.C., 19 January 1883-19 February 1883. 4 pp. Not filmed.","Gives accounts for travel in North Carolina and Virginia, as well as population counts of cities in those states; also account of Joseph E. Johnston with Pan Electric Association. 11 pp. MsV. Not filmed.","A one page letter sent from General Joseph E. Johnston to Brigadier General John H. Kelly regarding the transport and exchange of unfit cavalry horses. 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Va.)","United States -- Politics and government","Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County","Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)","Women's history -- 1800-1849","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Politicians -- United States","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Francis Harrison Pierpont was born in Monongalia County, (West) Virginia on January 25, 1814, the son of Francis and Catherine Weaver Pierpont. He married Julia Augusta Robertson (July 26, 1828 - March 25, 1886) on December 26, 1854. He graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.","Julia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.","Note that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's Francis H. Pierpont for further details.","The article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  These are located in box 4.","pencil draft 1, folder 13a, item 04-057\npencil draft 2, folder 14, item 04-059\nink draft, folder 16, item 04-061\nfinal draft, folder 18a, item 04-062.5a","9, 113, 418, 419, 420, 497, 526, 559, 4171","Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16. This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18. This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date","Item Description includes:","1) Original or transcript;","2) Title of item;","3) Number of leaves;","4) Complete or fragment;","5) Description of item;","6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location;","7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.","Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website.","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","Items transferred to Pamphlets:","P0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.","P2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.","P6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.","No number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Grand Army of the Republic","Society of the Army of West Virginia","Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899","Ambler, Charles Henry,  1876-1957","Battelle, Gordon.","Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896","Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893","Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889","Campbell, Archibald W., 1833-1899.","Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878","Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885","Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900","Dayton, Spencer","Goff, Nathan, 1843-1920","Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906","Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901.","Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865","McClellan, George B. 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He married Julia Augusta Robertson (July 26, 1828 - March 25, 1886) on December 26, 1854. He graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eFrancis H. 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Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.","Julia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.","Note that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's Francis H. Pierpont for further details."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  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Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003c/emph\u003e This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003c/emph\u003e This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick \u003c/emph\u003e(Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Descriptive System for Series 4:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Item Description includes: \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 1) Original or transcript; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 2) Title of item; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 3) Number of leaves; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 4) Complete or fragment; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 5) Description of item; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 7) Condition of item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the \u003ca href=\"https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFrancis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick\u003c/emph\u003e (Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16. This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18. This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date","Item Description includes:","1) Original or transcript;","2) Title of item;","3) Number of leaves;","4) Complete or fragment;","5) Description of item;","6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location;","7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.","Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website.","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eItems transferred to Pamphlets:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nP0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nP2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nP6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nNo number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Items transferred to Pamphlets:","P0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.","P2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.","P6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.","No number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_83497f699f73bc58c1cdff09fc41122f\"\u003ePapers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_9041a843e76829e94338dabe45bca976\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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Va.)","United States -- Politics and government","Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County","Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)","Women's history -- 1800-1849","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Politicians -- United States","No special access restriction applies.","Researchers may access digitized materials by visiting the link attached to each item or by requesting to view the materials in person by appointment or remotely by contacting the West Virginia \u0026 Regional History Center reference department.","Francis Harrison Pierpont was born in Monongalia County, (West) Virginia on January 25, 1814, the son of Francis and Catherine Weaver Pierpont. He married Julia Augusta Robertson (July 26, 1828 - March 25, 1886) on December 26, 1854. He graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.","Julia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.","Note that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's Francis H. Pierpont for further details.","The article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  These are located in box 4.","pencil draft 1, folder 13a, item 04-057\npencil draft 2, folder 14, item 04-059\nink draft, folder 16, item 04-061\nfinal draft, folder 18a, item 04-062.5a","9, 113, 418, 419, 420, 497, 526, 559, 4171","Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16. This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18. This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date","Item Description includes:","1) Original or transcript;","2) Title of item;","3) Number of leaves;","4) Complete or fragment;","5) Description of item;","6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location;","7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.","Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website.","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","Items transferred to Pamphlets:","P0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.","P2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.","P6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.","No number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. 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He married Julia Augusta Robertson (July 26, 1828 - March 25, 1886) on December 26, 1854. He graduated from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and began teaching in Mississippi and then (West) Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Fairmont, Marion County, (West) Virginia, in 1842. One of the clients he represented was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He also started a coal mine on family property in 1854 and entered into a partnership with coal pioneer James Otis Watson. During the 1840s and 1850s, he became interested in politics, joined the Whig Party, and opposed slavery. He participated in the First and Second Wheeling Conventions in 1861. Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eFrancis H. 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Elected Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia on June 20, 1861, he continued to serve as Governor of Virginia after the Civil War, until 1868. He continued in politics, serving one term in the West Virginia Legislature in 1870, and serving as Collector for the Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia in 1880. After retiring from politics, he spent the final years of his life as a founder and member of the West Virginia Historical Society. He died in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 24, 1899.","Julia and Francis had four children: Samuel Robertson \"Sammie\" (November 12, 1855 - January 22, 1920), Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\" (April 14, 1858 - March 22, 1932), and twins Francis William \"Willie\" (September 13, 1860 - February 11, 1920) and Mary Augusta \"Mamie\" (September 13, 1860 - June 18, 1864). Anna married William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter (1858-1939) in 1886.","Note that Francis Harrison spelled his surname \"Peirpoint\" until 1881, when he changed the spelling to \"Pierpont,\" the form which is now used by historians. See Charles Ambler's Francis H. Pierpont for further details."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe article entitled \"The Lincoln Reminiscence Manuscript in the Francis Harrison Pierpont Papers\" authored by Michael R. Ridderbusch references pencil draft 1, pencil draft 2, ink draft, and final draft.  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Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\u003c/emph\u003e This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\u003c/emph\u003e This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick \u003c/emph\u003e(Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\u003c/emph\u003e This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.\u003c/emph\u003e This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Descriptive System for Series 4:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFolder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Item Description includes: \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 1) Original or transcript; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 2) Title of item; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 3) Number of leaves; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 4) Complete or fragment; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 5) Description of item; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location; \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 7) Condition of item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the \u003ca href=\"https://civilwarwv.lib.wvu.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFrancis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eDerrick\u003c/emph\u003e (Oil City, PA), \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003ePuck\u003c/emph\u003e, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Family Visitor\u003c/emph\u003e; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For additional information on correspondence and papers of Pierpont, please see the Calendar of the Francis Harrison Pierpont Letters and Papers in West Virginia Depositories, published by the West Virginia Historic Records Survey in 1940.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6.\nSeries 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18.\nSeries 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3.\nSeries 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7.\nSeries 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8.\nSeries 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9.\nSeries 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2.\nSeries 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13.\nSeries 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; box 14-16.\nSeries 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9.\nSeries 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13.\nSeries 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18.","Series 1. Pierpont Genealogy and Family History; 1836-1869, 1930, undated; box 1, folders 1-6. This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","Series 2. Correspondence, Family; 1838-1930, undated (includes facsimiles); box 1, folder 7 - box 2, folder 18. This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","Series 3. Correspondence, General; 1830-1894, undated (includes facsimiles); box 2, folder 19 - box 3. This series contains political correspondence, generally manuscript original and typescript copies of letters. Most correspondence is to or from Francis H. Pierpont. Topics include politics, the Statehood movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and religion. Several \"letters to the editor\" are included. Notable correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Benjamin F. Butler (possible), Arthur I. Boreman, Simon Cameron, Archibald W. Campbell, John S. Carlile, Schuyler Colfax, Jacob D. Cox, Spencer Dayton, Nathan Goff, Whitelaw Reid, J.M. Schofield, William H. Seward, William E. Stevenson, David Hunter Strother, Peter G. Van Winkle, James O. Watson, and Waitman T. Willey.","Series 4. Writings and Speeches; 1836-1899, undated (includes facsimiles); boxes 4-7. This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Series 5. Subject Files; 1816-1935, undated (includes facsimiles); box 8. This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","Series 6. Telegrams; 1861-1869, undated (includes facsimiles); box 9. This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others. For more information on how these items are described, and where to find digitized copies and transcriptions, see the series-level note.","Series 7. Pamphlets; 1850-1949 (bulk 1850-1884); box 10 - box 11, folder 2. This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","Series 8. Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont; 1836-1914; box 11, folder 3 - box 13. This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","Series 9. Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter; 1871-1918, undated; boxes 14-16. This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","Series 10. Ephemera; 1859-1917, undated; box 17, folders 1-9. This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","Series 11. Artifacts; 1887, undated; box 17, folders 10-13. This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","Series 12. Oversized; 1811-1929, undated (includes facsimiles); box 18. This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16.","This series consists of Pierpont family genealogies and articles, as well as biographical sketches of Francis H. Pierpont. While authorship is unknown in most cases, some may have been written by Pierpont himself.","This series includes manuscript and typescript letters (both originals and copies). Generally, the letters are from Francis H. Pierpont, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont, their children who survived to adulthood (Samuel \"Sammie\", Anna \"Nannie\" or \"Pierrie\", and Francis William \"Willie\"), and their son-in-law William Henry \"Harry\" Siviter, to each other. Topics generally include politics, family matters, health, daily life, and travel.","This series includes writings, speeches, drafts of letters, and pamphlets by Pierpont from his college days until the time of his death. Contains originals, typescript copies, and photostat copies. Topics include the West Virginia statehood movement, politics, slavery, and other issues surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also includes multiple drafts of Pierpont's reminiscences of meetings with Abraham Lincoln.","Descriptive System for Series 4:","Folder Title; Item Number; Item Description; Date","Item Description includes:","1) Original or transcript;","2) Title of item;","3) Number of leaves;","4) Complete or fragment;","5) Description of item;","6) Whether a corresponding transcript or original exists, and its location;","7) Condition of item.","This series is divided by subject, and includes various material such as Julia A. Robertson Pierpont's pocket diary (1852); Francis H. Pierpont's deeds, business papers, and receipts (1816-1896); legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between James O. Watson and Pierpont regarding debt and their coal mining partnership (ca. 1872, undated); documents regarding a feud between Pierpont and G.W. Atkinson (ca. 1880); materials used by Charles Ambler to research his book about Pierpont (1841-1886, 1934-1935, undated); and other items.","This series includes over 850 original and facsimile telegrams, most of which are addressed to Pierpont. He was elected governor of the \"Loyal\" or \"Restored\" Government of Virginia, which was formed in Wheeling shortly after the state's Richmond government left the Union to join the Confederacy in May 1861. The bulk of the telegrams span 1861-1863, documenting Pierpont's efforts to maintain Union rule in western Virginia during the first two years of the Civil War. Concerning matters such as military personnel and recruitment, troop movements and engagements, orders, and provisions, the telegrams provide nearly a daily record of military developments in western Virginia during this period. Spellings and punctuation in the transcriptions provided in the Contents List are maintained from the original documents. Notable correspondents include Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Thomas M. Harris, Abraham Lincoln (facsimiles), J.A.J. Lightburn, George B. McClellan, J.C. Paxton, J.C. Rathbone, W.S. Rosecrans, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Benjamin F. Wade, and others.","Digitized copies and transcriptions of the majority of this series can be found online at the Francis H. Pierpont Civil War Telegram Series 1861-1865 website.","This series includes pamphlets on the Knights of the Golden Circle (Copperheads), slavery, Reconstruction, education, terms of governors, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and various other topics.","This series includes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The clippings touch on all aspects of Pierpont's life, including his involvement in West Virginia becoming a state and news stories of his death from major newspapers around the country. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Some of the scrapbooks were likely created by Francis H. Pierpont, while others were probably created by Anna Pierpont Siviter and William H. Siviter.","This series includes scrapbooks related to the writings and professional activities of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her husband William H. Siviter. Some of the scrapbooks are published books into which newspaper clippings have been pasted over the existing text. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings from William Siviter's career as a published humorist and featured column writer for newspapers in the Pittsburgh area, the Derrick (Oil City, PA), Puck, and others; clippings of articles by Anna Siviter for various newspapers and the Methodist newsletter, The Family Visitor; correspondence; theater programs; and Pittsburgh area letterhead and handbills.","This series includes certificates, invitations, the diary of an unknown Pierpont family member, and other items. Notable items include Francis H. Pierpont's membership certificate for the Society of the Army of West Virginia (1872), invitations to the weddings of Anna Pierpont Siviter and her daughter Frances Pierpont Siviter Pryor (1886-1917), and Republican National Convention tickets (1884).","This series contains ribbons worn by Pierpont, including a Society of the Army of West Virginia ribbon and a Grand Army of the Republic ribbon.","This series includes oversized materials such as land grants and indentures, a Virginia military commission, broadsides, a letter, maps, and Civil War newspaper clippings. The letter is from former governor of Georgia George M. Troup. The commission, signed by Pierpont, appoints Joseph Snyder to Colonel. For additional deeds, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folders 3 and 4. For additional Joseph Snyder/Snider items, see Series 5, Subject Files, box 8, folder 15. For the scrapbooks from which the newspaper clippings came, see Series 8, Newspaper Clippings Scrapbooks, F.H. Pierpont, box 11, folder 3 - box 13, and Series 9, Scrapbooks, Anna and William H. Siviter, boxes 14-16."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eItems transferred to Pamphlets:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nP0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nP2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nP6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nNo number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Items transferred to Pamphlets:","P0585: Regulations and List of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongahela Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society..., 1869.","P2013: Catalogue of Premiums of the First Annual Fair of the Monongalia Agricultural Association..., 1879.","P6141: Report on the Survey of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Boundary, 1883.","No number: Final Report of the Joint Boundary Commission on the Parallel Boundary Between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1886."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_83497f699f73bc58c1cdff09fc41122f\"\u003ePapers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers of Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814-1899) of Monongalia and Marion Counties, West Virginia, who served as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia during the Civil War. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, printed materials, and photocopies consisting of genealogies, correspondence, college essays, speeches, official messages, articles prepared for newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera. Topics include Pierpont's education; his career as governor of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling, Alexandria, and Richmond; the West Virginia statehood movement; politics; and his later work in the Methodist Protestant Church. Notable series include Pierpont's personal and professional correspondence; his writings and speeches, which include several drafts of his reminiscences on Lincoln; correspondence and notes of Charles H. Ambler, biographer of Pierpont, in the Subject Files series; and a series of several hundred telegrams related to statehood and the Civil War. Pierpont's correspondents include Gordon Battelle, Arthur I. Boreman, John S. Carlile, Abraham Lincoln (copies), Waitman T. Willey, and others. For civil war telegrams related to this collection, go to wvhistory.org."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_9041a843e76829e94338dabe45bca976\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536  / URL: \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\"\u003eWest Virginia \u0026amp; Regional History Center\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. 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