WILLIAM HAND BROWNE, Baltimore, ALS to INGRAM, 1893

Containers:

Box 7

Extent:

2 pp.

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Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the University of Virginia. Browne encloses a copy of a letter from Henry C. Carey to John P. Kennedy, 8 December 1834, sending Kennedy "a small sum" in payment to his "friend" for "one of his tales" (i.e., "MS. Found in a Bottle"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from Eliza Leslie, editor of The Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).

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