"A REPLY TO MR. FAIRFIELD," by Sarah Helen Whitman

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Box 11

Scope and content:

In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29 September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes Francis Gerry Fairfield's arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October 1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a "madman of letters."

Physical description:

1 column clipped from the New York Tribune

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