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He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, and graduated in 1820. After college, Dewey moved to Cadiz, Ohio, and studied law under General W.B. Beebe. After his admission to the Ohio bar, Dewey formed a partnership with Steubenville lawyer and future Ohio Senator Benjamin Tappan, under the firm of Tappan \u0026 Dewey. In 1836, Dewey formed a new partnership in Cadiz with Edwin M. Stanton, future Secretary of War from 1862 to 1868 under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. That partnership dissolved in 1842, and that year Dewey formed a new partnership with Stuart B. Shotwell, under the firm Dewey \u0026 Shotwell of Cadiz. Dewey retired from the law practice in 1849, and became a leader in Cadiz's growing banking industry. In 1849, he was elected president of the Harrison Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and remained its president when it converted to the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz in 1865. He was a director of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, \u0026 St. Louis Railroad. In 1823 he married Nancy Pritchard, and the couple had ten children. Dewey died in Cadiz on February 15, 1880.","Stuart B. Shotwell was born in 1819 in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio. He attended Franklin College beginning in 1836, and after graduating he studied law in Cadiz in the law office of Dewey \u0026 Stanton. In 1842, he was admitted to the Ohio state bar, and the same year he joined Dewey in a new partnership of Dewey \u0026 Shotwell, after the departure of Edwin Stanton. Shotwell carried on the business under his own name after the retirement of Dewey in 1849. In 1851, Shotwell married Nancy Gaston. The couple had five children, including Walter Gaston Shotwell (b. 1856), a lawyer who trained in his father's firm and later opened his own practice in Cadiz, where this collection was likely stored at one time. Stuart B. 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The collection also\n includes some correspondence of \n John Hartwell Cocke(1780-1866), 1853 Mar\n 9, 1856 Nov 4; General \n Phillip St. George Cocke(1809-1861), \n John Bowdoin Cocke(1836-1889), \n John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke(1871-1951), \n Bettie Burwell (Page) Cocke(1841-1900), \n Mary Louise Cocke(1868-1966), \n Milton Courtwright Elliot(1879-1928), \n John Page Elliot(1913-1992), \n George H. Venable(1864 Mar 16), and other\n members of the \n Cockeand \n Elliotfamilies.","Early letters of interest include many during the courtship\n and marriage of \n John Bowdoin Cockeand \n Bettie Burwell Page(1860s-1870s); \n Bettie Burwell Pageoffering her services\n and those of a Miss Taylor to the Confederate Secretary of the\n Treasury (1862 Oct 3); a letter to \n Bettie Burwell Pageconcerning her\n participation in a ceremony to honor the Confederate dead\n (1866 Jul 18); \n John Bowdoin Cocketo his wife Bettie\n describing the release of \n Jefferson Davisfrom prison (1867 May);\n and \n Betty Page Cocketo General \n G.H. Bridgesconcerning the Civil War\n record of her grandfather \n Philip St. George Cocke(1892 Dec 2).","The letters of \n Lucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliotconsist of\n correspondence with family and friends, and contain a series\n of courtship letters written from about 1890 through 1906 by\n several \n University of Virginiastudents, including\n Basil Jones, \n Archibald Watson, \n R.C. Blackford, \n Richard S. Whaley, \n Robert L. Parrish, and \n Hermann Holst Swift, among others.\n Several letters written between March and August of 1903\n describe a tour of \n Europeand the \n Mediterraneanmade by \n Lucy Hamilton Cockeand give her\n observations on the sites she visited, including \n Gibraltar, \n Naples, \n Pompeii, \n Athens, \n Constantinople, \n Alexandria, \n Cairo, \n Giza, \n Luxor, \n Sicily, \n Rome, \n Venice, \n Florence, \n Switzerland, \n Paris, and \n London.","Also included are letters from \n Robert L. Parrishwhich describe his\n travels in July and August of 1905 to the \n Grand Canyon, \n Yosemite Valley, \n California, the \n Great Lakes, \n Canada, and \n Alaska. The majority of letters circa\n 1902 -1928 are written by \n Milton Courtwright Elliotwho married \n Lucy Cockein 1906. The correspondence\n contains letters written to and from Lucy and Milton Elliot's\n two sons, \n Warren Grice Elliotand \n John Page Elliot, as well as letters of\n sympathy received on the death of \n Milton Elliotin 1928. The later letters\n of \n Lucy Cocke Elliotare mainly to and from\n members of the \n Cocke family, especially her sister \n Betty Page Cockewith whom she resided\n after the death of her husband Milton, and also include a\n continued correspondence with \n Hermann Holst Swift.","The letters of \n Betty Page Cockeare considerably more\n extensive and pertain to her involvement in politics and\n historic preservation while also containing letters to family\n and friends. The collection includes letters which outline her\n active involvement in such organizations as the \n Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, the \n Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the \n National Women's Liberty Loan\n Organization, the \n Women's Section of the State Council of\n Defense, the \n Albemarle County Historical Society, the \n Albemarle County Chapter of the Red\n Cross, the \n Women's Organization for Prohibition\n Reform, and the \n Virginia War History Commission.","Other topics include letters concerning a trip made by \n Betty Page Cocketo \n Englandin 1937 to view the coronation of\n King \n George VIand a subsequent tour of \n Europeduring which she injured her hip\n and had to return home for a long convalescence.\n Correspondence concerning the involvement of \n Betty Page Cockein the settlement of\n several Cocke family estates include those of \n Leila B. Cocke, ca. 1925-1930 where Betty\n acted as the administratrix, \n Rowena L. Cocke, ca. 1961, and \n Mazyck Wilson Shields, ca. 1942. These\n papers describe the sale of items from the plantation of \" \n Bremo, \" \n Fluvanna County, Virginia, at auction in\n 1926 and the proposed formation of the \n Bremo Plantation Inc.from the property of\n the late \n Leila B. Cocke. \n Milton C. Elliotacted as legal\n representative during the disposition of the estate.","Other correspondents and subjects include: \n Robert D. Ballantine, who was supposed to\n have committed suicide partly because \n Betty Cockerejected him (17 Nov 1896; 4\n Jan and 6 Feb 1897; 25 Oct and 31 Dec 1901), letters\n describing his travels in \n Europefor education in music and German,\n and in India with his family and friends; the illness and\n death of \n Bettie Burwell Page Cocke(Aug 1900);\n lists of and letters by students who lived in the boarding\n house run by \n Betty Cocke(1961-1964); and \n Thomas Nelson Pageto \"Miss Cocke\" (2 Dec\n 1902) concerning her request to \"hear him read for her.\"\n Letters concerning artwork include: several to \n John Bowdoin Cockeabout the sale of a\n Napoleon miniature by \n Jean Baptiste Isabey(July-Oct 1879); and\n the disposition of the equestrian portrait of General Scott\n painted by \n Edward Troyefrom Troye's widow, \n Cornelia A. Troye(Dec 1874-May 1876);\n letters from representatives of the \n Virginia Military Instituteto \n Betty Page Cockeconcerning the location\n of the bust of General \n Philip St. George Cockeby \n Alexander Galt(Sept 30, Oct 7, 24, 31,\n 1938; and Nov 6, 1939); letters from \n Bailey and Griffin Inc., \"Importers of\n Unusual Chintzes,\" to \n Betty Cockeabout a loan of the heirloom\n chintz quilt from \" \n Bremo\" to have the pattern copied (Oct 25\n and Dec 9, 1938; Mar 4, 1939; and Mar 4 and 13, 1940);\n correspondence of \n Betty Cockewith the \n Virginia Museum of Fine Artsabout the\n loan of 17th and 18th century silver utensils for an exhibit\n (Oct 11, 28, and Nov 9, 1940; and Jan 15, 1941).","The letters of \n Milton C. Elliotare chiefly concerned\n with business matters, especially those to Betty regarding the\n buying and selling of property and the \n Leila B Cockeestate; but also include\n letters to his sons, \n John Page Elliotand \n Warren Grice Elliotin the 1920s while\n they were boarding students at the \n Episcopal High Schoolin \n Alexandria, Virginia, and letters to his\n wife Lucy before and after their marriage (previously\n mentioned in connection with Lucy's correspondence). Milton\n was the toastmaster of the \n Alfalfa Clubin \n Washington, D.C.in 1919 and some menus\n and invitations concerning the \n Alfalfa Clubare mixed in with the\n correspondence.","Other items of interest include letters to \n Betty Page Cockewhich describe the\n involvement of her friends in World War I, including: a French\n soldier, \n A. Murail, thanks \n Betty Cockefor a Christmas gift (27 Dec\n 1916); \n John Skelton Williams' telegram (6 April\n 1917) announces that the President had signed the declaration\n of war; letters from Dr. \n Hugh H. Youngdescribe his activities as\n an army doctor, the morale of the soldiers, conditions in \n France, and meetings with General\n Pershing (26 Nov 1917; 26, 29 Mar, 10 Jun, and 3 Sep 1918);\n Corporal \n Marion S. Dimmockwrites to \n Betty Cocke, describing conditions at the\n front (June 1918 and 18 Nov 1918); Other letters (30 Aug, 12\n Sep, and 30 Nov 1918) written by \"Mary P.\" to \n Betty Page Cockedescribe conditions in \n Franceand her work in the offices of the \n American Fund for French Wounded; and a\n description of \n Franceduring the Armistice (21 Nov\n 1918).","Correspondence in individual folders includes: circular\n letters from the Rev. \n Beverley D. Tucker, 1958-1961, describing\n his missionary work in \n Japan, travels to \n Russia, his personal affairs, and\n pamphlets about the 1960 construction of \n St. Michaels Churchin \n Sapporo, Japan; \n John Skelton Williams, 1917-1921, about\n World War I, and his resignation as Comptroller of the\n Currency, excluding personal letters to the \n Cocke familychiefly of a social nature\n which are interfiled in the general correspondence; \n Edith Bolling Wilsonto \n Lucy Cocke Elliot, 1924-1928, including\n letters of sympathy on the death of Milton; \n Woodrow Wilsonand \n Edith Bolling Wilsonto \n Betty Cocke(Edith was a girlhood friend\n of Betty), including some letters from White House\n secretaries, 1919-1955, and undated, chiefly of a personal\n nature except for a transcript of a letter from \n Woodrow Wilsonto the Rector and Visitors\n at the \n University of Virginiavoicing his\n opposition to the proposed moving of the Medical School to \n Richmond(1921 May 30); and letters from \n Napoleon Drewand family, a former slave\n at \" \n Belmead. \" For photographs of Napoleon\n Drew see Box 32.","Financial and legal papers includes information about court\n cases and petitions involving the \n Cocke family; letters from \n Betty Cocke's stockbrokers, \n John L. Williams and Sons, concerning\n stocks in the \n Seaboard Syndicate, \n Warner Bros, and the \n 2nd Bank of the United States; letters\n about leases, sales of property, deeds, permits, building\n contracts and other papers regarding the real estate dealings\n of \n Betty Cocke; \n Lucy Elliot's correspondence with \n S.C. Chancellor, \n Redland Corporation, and the \n Xi chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity; a\n permit for liquor purchase during Prohibition (22 Jan 1921);\n funeral expenses and the finances of the \n Elliot familyafter the death of \n Milton C. Elliotin 1928; \n Atlantic Coast Railroad Companyliens and\n garnishments, 1933-1938 (separately foldered); specifications\n for houses by \n Eugene Bradyfor \n Milton Elliotin \n Charlottesvilleand \n Washington, D.C.(which was never built);\n correspondence regarding the proposed creation of parking\n spaces in front of the \n Rotundato which Betty was bitterly\n opposed (5 Dec 1941-12 July 1946); and some information about\n the sale of items from \" \n Bremo, \" the settlement of the estate of \n John Bowdoin Cocke, and the move of his\n wife and children after his death to \n Charlottesville(1889-1892). There are\n also original financial and legal documents from the \n Browne familyand the \n Blow familyin this collection, 1773-1948.\n The \n Blow familydocuments, 1884-1948, chiefly\n pertain to property belonging to \n George Blowin \n Norfolk, Virginia. The \n Browne familydocuments, 1773-1813 and\n undated, consist of accounts and receipts of Colonel \n William Browneof \" \n Four Mile Tree Plantation, \" \n Surry County, Virginia, with \n John Hay \u0026 Company, \n Kilmarnock Carpet Company, and \n John Hyndman \u0026 Company; stud fees;\n and promissory notes.","The genealogical and historical research files were\n assembled by \n John Page Elliot(1913-1992), son of \n Milton C. Elliotand \n Lucy Cocke Elliot, and include\n correspondence, notes, genealogical charts and diagrams,\n photographs of portraits and individuals, printed material\n from magazines, newsclippings, copies and transcripts of\n letters, and miscellaneous related material. Most of the\n original letters have been filed with the correspondence\n series.","Several original items pertaining to the \n Cocke familyhave been interfiled with the\n rest of the \n Cocke FamilyPapers in 640, etc., including:\n \" \n Belmead\" building plans, Box 182 (n.d.);\n a letter from \n Buller Cocketo \n John Hartwell Cocke, August 23, 1820 (Box\n 32); a bank book of \n John T. Bowdoin, 1817-1819, with the \n Bank of the United States, \n Norfolk(Box 25); a bank book of \n Philip St. George Cocke, 1838-1839, with\n the \n Exchange Bank of Virginia, \n Richmond(Box 93); a drawing of a\n carriage, Box 182 (n.d.); two appointments of \n Philip St. George Cocketo Visitor of\n V.M.I. (1850 May 25 and 1858 May 25), Box 132, and an\n appointment as an \"aide de camp,\" Box 131, (1850 Feb 22);\n pedigree for a horse owned by \n John Hartwell Cocke, Seagate, Box 182\n (n.d.); a list of valuables, Box 172, (1865 Mar 13); and a\n drawing of an \"Overseer's Cottage\" at \" \n Four Mile Tree Plantation, \" \n Surry County, possibly by \n Philip St. George Cocke, Box 93\n (1838).","These genealogical files are arranged alphabetically by the\n name of the family, individual, or subject. Some files also\n include information about children and wives under the name of\n the father. Folders which include photographs, notable\n correspondents, etc. are listed here:","Barraud FamilyPortraits - \n Daniel Cary Barraud(1725-1784?); \n Ann Barraud Cocke(1785-1816); \n Ann Blaws Hansford Barraud(1760-1836);\n Dr. \n Philip Barraud(1758-1830); \n Catherine Curle Barraud; \n Courtney Bowdoin Cocke Barraud; and \n Philip Barraud\u0026 \n Courtney Barraud.","\" \n Belmead, \" \n Powhatan County-Copies of correspondence\n re the sale of the plantation in 1892 and copies of\n correspondence with \n Fiske Kimballconcerning \" \n Belmead\"; early photographs, including\n the house, furniture, furnishings, grounds, the mill, fields,\n barnyards and barn; a folder concerning \" \n Belmead\" after it was sold and became the\n St. Emma Military Academyfor black\n men.","Blow Family-Photographs of \n Margaret Blow Elliot(1849-1910); Judge \n George Blow(1813-1894); and \n Elizabeth Taylor Allmand Blow.","Bowdoin Family-Photographs of \n John Tucker Bowdoin(1787-1821); and \n Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin)\n Cocke(1815-1872).","\" \n Bremo, \" \n Fluvanna County-Photographs of \" \n Bremo\"; copies of correspondence with \n Fiske Kimball; and material pertaining to\n the auction sale of 1926.","Browne Family-Photographs of Mrs. \n John Tucker Bowdoin( \n Sarah Edwards Browne, 1794-1815); and\n Mrs. \n William Browne( \n Elizabeth Ruffin, 1771-1799?).","Burwell Family-Photograph of \n Edmond Bradford Burwell.","Carter Family-Photographs of Mrs. \n Robert Carter( \n Judith Armistead) and Colonel \n Robert Carterof \" \n Corotoman. \"","Betty Page Cocke-Photographs of \n Betty Cockeand friends; a \n University of Virginiagraduation scene; \n St. Paul's Memorial Church, at the \n University of Virginia; \"Winnie, the\n colored maid, cook, mammy \u0026 friend of \n Betty Page Cockeand \n Mary Louise Cocke\"; UVA students; the\n boarding house; and Dr. \n Charles Minor.","John Bowdoin Cocke-Photographs of \n Betty Burwell Page Cocke(1841-1900); \n John Bowdoin Cocke(1836-1889); and the\n Rev. \n John Cosby; the commission of \n J.B. Cockein the \n Virginia Militia; and the marriage\n license of Betty and \n John Bowdoin Cocke.","John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke(1871-1951)\n -Photographs of himself and the \n Gas Works Crew, \n Savannah, Georgia.","John Hartwell Cocke-Photographs of \n John H. Cocke; \n Sally Cocke Faulcon; \n Sally Faulcon (Cocke) Brent; \n Anne Blaws Barraud Cocke(1784-1816).","Mary Louise Cocke-Photographs of herself\n and a trip to the West Coast.","Norborne Page Cocke(1878-1940)\n -Photographs of himself.","Philip St. George Cocke-Photographs of \n Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin) Cocke;\n Philip St. George Cocke(1809-1861); Miss \n \"Bunny\" Cocke; \n Philip St. George Cocke(1844-); and\n copies of correspondence with \n Douglas Southall Freeman.","Richard Cocke-Photographs of \n Richard CockeIV (1707-1772); Colonel \n Nathaniel Cocke(1746-1813).","Corbin Family-Photograph of [ \n Henry Corbin?].","Napoleon Bonaparte Drew-Photographs.","Elliot Familyfolders with photographs\n include: \n Allmand Elliot(1881-1908); \n Elizabeth Preston (Elliot) Wilson(1887\n -?) and Dr. \n Gordon Wilson; \n George Blow Elliot(1873-1948); \n Esther Ellery Elliot Sparkman(?-1955); \n Ellery Sparkman; \n Gilbert Elliot; \n Charles G. Elliot; \n Lucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliot; \n Margaret Elliot(1884-1966); \n Milton C. Elliot(1879-1928) and his sons,\n John Page Elliotand \n Warren Grice Elliot; \n Warren Grice Elliot(1848-1906); \n Margaret Blow(1849-1910); and \n Warren Grice Elliot, Jr.(1875-1930).","\" \n Four Acres, \" \n Charlottesville, Virginia","\" \n Four Mile Tree Plantation, \" \n Surry County","Grice Family-Photographs of \n Charles Grice(1762-1832); and \n Joseph Grice.","\" \n Lower Bremo\" and \" \n Bremo Recess\"","\" \n Mount Pleasant, \" \n Surry County","Nelson Family-Photographs of \n Elizabeth Burwell Nelson(1718-1793); \n William Nelson(1711-1772); \n Margaret Reade Nelson; \n Lucy Nelson; and \n Jane Byrd Nelson(engraving).","Page Family-Photographs of Colonel \n John Page; \n Jane (Byrd) Page; \" \n Rosewell\" ruins; Colonel \n Matthew Page(1659-1703); \n Mary Mann Page(1672-1707); \n Mann PageI (1691-1730); \n Judith Carter Page; \n Mann PageII (1749-1803); \n Anne Corbin Tayloe Page; \n Lucy Landonia Page Booker; \n Charles Carter Page; \n William Armistead Page; \n John Page; \n Hamilton Page; \n Norborne Thomas Page, Jr.; \n Betty Burwell Page Cocke; \n St. Paul's Church, \n Petersburg; \n Mary Louise Jones Page; \n Norborne Thomas Nelson Page; Mrs. \n Lewis Booker, \n Betty Booker\u0026 Mrs. \n Lily Booker Cole.","Photographs -Miscellaneous - \n Woodrow Wilson; \n Petersburg Mathematical \u0026 Classical\n Institute; \n Fitzhugh Lee; \n University of Virginia Rotunda; \n Thomas H. Carter; \n George Ben Johnston; \n Wilson Howe(1903 -?); \n Helen Johnstonand \n Anne Roy Johnston; \n University of Virginiastudents and\n buildings; \n Herman H. Swift; \n William Lancaster; \n Joe Cox; \n Maria Garnett Venn; \n Ellen Douglas; Burton, \n Archibald Hendersonand \n Jean Craige; \n Vicksburgseawall; \n Bloomfield Academy, \n Albemarle County; French ruins \n Belleau Woodsand \n Chateau-Thierrygravesite.","Tayloe Family-Photographs of Mr. \u0026 Mrs.\n John TayloeI.","Edward Troye-Printed Material \u0026\n Photographs -Horses \"Utilitarian,\" \"Roebuck,\" \"Cleveland.\"","The bound volume, memorabilia, and oversize material series\n is listed in detail at the end of this guide. Any bound\n volumes not in folders have been assigned a number to\n facilitate location in the box. Memorabilia consists of\n membership cards, annual tickets of admission, and railroad\n passes belonging to \n Betty Cocke, \n Lucy H. Cocke Elliotand \n Milton C. Elliot; calling cards; a \n Democratic National Conventionsouvenir;\n U.S. Government Thrift Card; Six \n Great BritainCoronation commemorative\n stamps, 1937 May 12; War Ration Book; \n Jamestown Expositionsouvenir; autograph\n of \n Fitzhugh Lee; and \n University of Virginiamemorabilia,\n including ribbons and pins from various ribbon societies (see\n Box 39 and Mini-Tray 40). The bound volumes are chiefly those\n of the \n Cocke familyand \n Milton C. Elliot, and include school\n notebooks, annuals and autograph albums; travel journals;\n memoranda books; a ledger; address books; a scrapbook of\n newsclippings; diaries; visitation and wedding invitation\n books; an account book; and a photgraph album of \n University of Virginiascenes, belonging\n to \n Lucy Hamilton Cocke Elliot[ante\n 1906?].","Oversize material includes a pardon to \n John Bowdoin Cocke(1865 Jul 6);\n photographs of Dr. \n Norborne Page Cocke, \n George Blow Elliot, \n William Gibbs McAdoo, and members of the \n Federal Reserve Board; certificates of\n membership and career advancements of \n Milton Elliotin law practice in \n Virginia, \n Pennsylvania, and \n Washington, D.C.; \n Sons of the American\n Revolutioncertificate of \n John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke(1926 Jun 1);\n architectural drawings for residences and outbuildings of M.C.\n and \n Lucy Elliotand \n John Page Elliot; and genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Cockeand \n Pagefamilies.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n Collections Dept.","University of Virginia","Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation","Woodrow Wilson Foundation","National Women's Liberty Loan\n Organization","Women's Section of the State Council of\n Defense","Albemarle County Historical Society","Albemarle County Chapter of the Red\n Cross","Women's Organization for Prohibition\n Reform","Virginia War History Commission","Bremo","Bremo Plantation Inc.","Virginia Military Institute","Bailey and Griffin Inc.","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Episcopal High School","Alfalfa Club","American Fund for French Wounded","St. Michaels Church","Belmead","John L. Williams and Sons","Seaboard Syndicate","Warner Bros","2nd Bank of the United States","Redland Corporation","Xi chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity","Atlantic Coast Railroad Company","Rotunda","Four Mile Tree Plantation","John Hay \u0026 Company","Kilmarnock Carpet Company","John Hyndman \u0026 Company","Bank of the United States","Exchange Bank of Virginia","St. Emma Military Academy","Corotoman","St. Paul's Memorial Church","Virginia Militia","Gas Works Crew","Four Acres","Lower Bremo","Bremo Recess","Mount Pleasant","Rosewell","St. Paul's Church","Petersburg Mathematical \u0026 Classical\n Institute","University of Virginia Rotunda","Bloomfield Academy","Democratic National Convention","Jamestown Exposition","Federal Reserve Board","Sons of the American\n Revolution","Atlantic Coast Line Railroad\n Company","Robert E. Lee Memorial\n Foundation","Betty Cocke Scholarship Fund","Virginia Military\n Institute","Federal Reserve\n Board","Elliot Clan Society","Huguenot Society of America","Malvern Hill","Old Bremo","Swann's Point Plantation","William \u0026 Mary","P.D.A. Society","Phi Beta Kappa","Episcopal High School of\n Virginia","Eli Banana","German Club","O.N.E.","Omega Sigma","T.I.L.K.A.","Z Society","Final Ball","Beta Theta Pi Fraternity","O.F.C. Club","Ladies Cotillon","Thirteen Club","Yorktown Sesquicentennial\n Commission","3rd Pan-American Commercial\n Conference","Treasury Department","Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the\n Mystic Shrine","University Club of\n Washington","University of Virginia Law\n School","Almas Temple Ancient Arabic Order of the\n Nobles of the Mystic Shrine","Society of the Sons of the American\n Revolution","Johnson, Craven \u0026 Gibson","Belle Rive","Johnson, Craven, \u0026 Gibson","Cocke","Elliot","Cocke family","Elliot family","Browne family","Blow family","Cocke Family","Barraud Family","Blow Family","Bowdoin Family","Browne Family","Burwell Family","Carter Family","Corbin Family","Elliot Family","Grice Family","Nelson Family","Page Family","Tayloe Family","Page","Allmand Family","Armistead Family","Barraud","Binns","Bassett Family","Blount Family","Bolling Family","Burwell","Byrd Family","Calvert Family","Carroll Family","Curle Family","Hall","Hansford","Harrison","Kennon","Mann","Mason","Hartwell Family","Harmanson Family","Hill Family","Jones Family","Kennon Family","Lee Family","Preeson Family","Randolph Family","Ruffin Family","Skipwith Family","Swann Family","Thoroughgood Family","Tucker Family","Waller Family","John Page Elliot","Betty Page Cocke","Lucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliot","John Hartwell Cocke","Phillip St. George Cocke","John Bowdoin Cocke","John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke","Bettie Burwell (Page) Cocke","Mary Louise Cocke","Milton Courtwright Elliot","George H. Venable","Bettie Burwell Page","Jefferson Davis","G.H. Bridges","Philip St. George Cocke","Basil Jones","Archibald Watson","R.C. Blackford","Richard S. Whaley","Robert L. Parrish","Hermann Holst Swift","Lucy Hamilton Cocke","Lucy Cocke","Warren Grice Elliot","Milton Elliot","Lucy Cocke Elliot","George VI","Leila B. Cocke","Rowena L. Cocke","Mazyck Wilson Shields","Milton C. Elliot","Robert D. Ballantine","Betty Cocke","Bettie Burwell Page Cocke","Thomas Nelson Page","Jean Baptiste Isabey","Edward Troye","Cornelia A. Troye","Alexander Galt","Leila B Cocke","A. Murail","John Skelton Williams","Hugh H. Young","Marion S. Dimmock","Beverley D. Tucker","Edith Bolling Wilson","Woodrow Wilson","Napoleon Drew","Lucy Elliot","S.C. Chancellor","Eugene Brady","George Blow","William Browne","Buller Cocke","John T. Bowdoin","Daniel Cary Barraud","Ann Barraud Cocke","Ann Blaws Hansford Barraud","Philip Barraud","Catherine Curle Barraud","Courtney Bowdoin Cocke Barraud","Courtney Barraud","Fiske Kimball","Margaret Blow Elliot","Elizabeth Taylor Allmand Blow","John Tucker Bowdoin","Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin)\n Cocke","Sarah Edwards Browne","Elizabeth Ruffin","Edmond Bradford Burwell","Robert Carter","Judith Armistead","Charles Minor","Betty Burwell Page Cocke","John Cosby","J.B. Cocke","John H. Cocke","Sally Cocke Faulcon","Sally Faulcon (Cocke) Brent","Anne Blaws Barraud Cocke","Norborne Page Cocke","Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin) Cocke","\"Bunny\" Cocke","Douglas Southall Freeman","Richard Cocke","Nathaniel Cocke","Henry Corbin","Napoleon Bonaparte Drew","Allmand Elliot","Elizabeth Preston (Elliot) Wilson","Gordon Wilson","George Blow Elliot","Esther Ellery Elliot Sparkman","Ellery Sparkman","Gilbert Elliot","Charles G. Elliot","Margaret Elliot","Margaret Blow","Warren Grice Elliot, Jr.","Charles Grice","Joseph Grice","Elizabeth Burwell Nelson","William Nelson","Margaret Reade Nelson","Lucy Nelson","Jane Byrd Nelson","John Page","Jane (Byrd) Page","Matthew Page","Mary Mann Page","Mann Page","Judith Carter Page","Anne Corbin Tayloe Page","Lucy Landonia Page Booker","Charles Carter Page","William Armistead Page","Hamilton Page","Norborne Thomas Page, Jr.","Mary Louise Jones Page","Norborne Thomas Nelson Page","Lewis Booker","Betty Booker","Lily Booker Cole","Fitzhugh Lee","Thomas H. Carter","George Ben Johnston","Wilson Howe","Helen Johnston","Anne Roy Johnston","Herman H. Swift","William Lancaster","Joe Cox","Maria Garnett Venn","Ellen Douglas","Archibald Henderson","Jean Craige","John Tayloe","Lucy H. Cocke Elliot","Lucy Hamilton Cocke Elliot","William Gibbs McAdoo","Napoleon B. Drew","Beverley D. Tucker, Jr.","John Skelton\n Williams","Eugene Bradbury","JOHN PAGE Elliot","Mary B. Cocke","Lelia B. Cocke","Betty Page\n Cocke","John Bowdoin\n Cocke","John T. Bowdoin\n Cocke","Norborne Page\n Cocke","Richard E. Powell,\n Jr.","Drew Family","Allmand\n Elliot","Charles\n Elliot","Elizabeth Preston (Elliot)\n Wilson","George Blow\n Elliot","Margaret\n Elliot","Charles Grice\n Elliot","Robert Garrison Elliot","Warren Grice\n Elliot","Warren Grice Elliot,\n Jr.","James Westhall Ford","[Susan Charles]\n Grice","Pocahontas","John Rolfe","Fontaine Alger Cocke","Betty Burwell (Page) Cocke","[L. Eliza ?] Browne","Betty B. Cocke","Lucy H. Cocke","Charles P. Didier","M.C. Elliot","Betty P. Cocke","Andrew Johnson","W.G. McAdoo","National Banking\n Associations","R.C.M. Page","John Tucker Bowdoin\n Cocke","John P. Elliot","James S. Tuley","Marshall S. Wells","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Cocke and Related Family Papers, \n ca.1773-1992"],"collection_ssim":["Cocke and Related Family Papers, \n ca.1773-1992"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["2433-ad and -ae"],"unitid_tesim":["2433-ad and -ae"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Mrs. John Page\n Elliot"],"creator_ssim":["Mrs. John Page\n Elliot"],"creator_persname_ssim":["John Page Elliot","Betty Page Cocke","Lucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliot","John Hartwell Cocke","Phillip St. George Cocke","John Bowdoin Cocke","John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke","Bettie Burwell (Page) Cocke","Mary Louise Cocke","Milton Courtwright Elliot","George H. Venable","Bettie Burwell Page","Jefferson Davis","G.H. Bridges","Philip St. George Cocke","Basil Jones","Archibald Watson","R.C. Blackford","Richard S. Whaley","Robert L. Parrish","Hermann Holst Swift","Lucy Hamilton Cocke","Lucy Cocke","Warren Grice Elliot","Milton Elliot","Lucy Cocke Elliot","George VI","Leila B. Cocke","Rowena L. Cocke","Mazyck Wilson Shields","Milton C. Elliot","Robert D. Ballantine","Betty Cocke","Bettie Burwell Page Cocke","Thomas Nelson Page","Jean Baptiste Isabey","Edward Troye","Cornelia A. Troye","Alexander Galt","Leila B Cocke","A. Murail","John Skelton Williams","Hugh H. Young","Marion S. Dimmock","Beverley D. Tucker","Edith Bolling Wilson","Woodrow Wilson","Napoleon Drew","Lucy Elliot","S.C. Chancellor","Eugene Brady","George Blow","William Browne","Buller Cocke","John T. Bowdoin","Daniel Cary Barraud","Ann Barraud Cocke","Ann Blaws Hansford Barraud","Philip Barraud","Catherine Curle Barraud","Courtney Bowdoin Cocke Barraud","Courtney Barraud","Fiske Kimball","Margaret Blow Elliot","Elizabeth Taylor Allmand Blow","John Tucker Bowdoin","Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin)\n Cocke","Sarah Edwards Browne","Elizabeth Ruffin","Edmond Bradford Burwell","Robert Carter","Judith Armistead","Charles Minor","Betty Burwell Page Cocke","John Cosby","J.B. Cocke","John H. Cocke","Sally Cocke Faulcon","Sally Faulcon (Cocke) Brent","Anne Blaws Barraud Cocke","Norborne Page Cocke","Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin) Cocke","\"Bunny\" Cocke","Douglas Southall Freeman","Richard Cocke","Nathaniel Cocke","Henry Corbin","Napoleon Bonaparte Drew","Allmand Elliot","Elizabeth Preston (Elliot) Wilson","Gordon Wilson","George Blow Elliot","Esther Ellery Elliot Sparkman","Ellery Sparkman","Gilbert Elliot","Charles G. Elliot","Margaret Elliot","Margaret Blow","Warren Grice Elliot, Jr.","Charles Grice","Joseph Grice","Elizabeth Burwell Nelson","William Nelson","Margaret Reade Nelson","Lucy Nelson","Jane Byrd Nelson","John Page","Jane (Byrd) Page","Matthew Page","Mary Mann Page","Mann Page","Judith Carter Page","Anne Corbin Tayloe Page","Lucy Landonia Page Booker","Charles Carter Page","William Armistead Page","Hamilton Page","Norborne Thomas Page, Jr.","Mary Louise Jones Page","Norborne Thomas Nelson Page","Lewis Booker","Betty Booker","Lily Booker Cole","Fitzhugh Lee","Thomas H. Carter","George Ben Johnston","Wilson Howe","Helen Johnston","Anne Roy Johnston","Herman H. Swift","William Lancaster","Joe Cox","Maria Garnett Venn","Ellen Douglas","Archibald Henderson","Jean Craige","John Tayloe","Lucy H. Cocke Elliot","Lucy Hamilton Cocke Elliot","William Gibbs McAdoo","Napoleon B. Drew","Beverley D. Tucker, Jr.","John Skelton\n Williams","Eugene Bradbury","JOHN PAGE Elliot","Mary B. Cocke","Lelia B. Cocke","Betty Page\n Cocke","John Bowdoin\n Cocke","John T. Bowdoin\n Cocke","Norborne Page\n Cocke","Cocke Family","Richard E. Powell,\n Jr.","Drew Family","Allmand\n Elliot","Charles\n Elliot","Elizabeth Preston (Elliot)\n Wilson","George Blow\n Elliot","Margaret\n Elliot","Charles Grice\n Elliot","Robert Garrison Elliot","Warren Grice\n Elliot","Warren Grice Elliot,\n Jr.","James Westhall Ford","[Susan Charles]\n Grice","Pocahontas","John Rolfe","Fontaine Alger Cocke","Betty Burwell (Page) Cocke","[L. Eliza ?] Browne","Betty B. Cocke","Lucy H. Cocke","Charles P. Didier","M.C. Elliot","Betty P. Cocke","Andrew Johnson","W.G. McAdoo","National Banking\n Associations","R.C.M. Page","John Tucker Bowdoin\n Cocke","John P. Elliot","James S. Tuley","Marshall S. Wells"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. Special\n Collections Dept.","University of Virginia","Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation","Woodrow Wilson Foundation","National Women's Liberty Loan\n Organization","Women's Section of the State Council of\n Defense","Albemarle County Historical Society","Albemarle County Chapter of the Red\n Cross","Women's Organization for Prohibition\n Reform","Virginia War History Commission","Bremo","Bremo Plantation Inc.","Virginia Military Institute","Bailey and Griffin Inc.","Virginia Museum of Fine Arts","Episcopal High School","Alfalfa Club","American Fund for French Wounded","St. Michaels Church","Belmead","John L. 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The collection also\n includes some correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Hartwell Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1780-1866), 1853 Mar\n 9, 1856 Nov 4; General \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhillip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1809-1861), \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1836-1889), \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1871-1951), \n \u003cpersname\u003eBettie Burwell (Page) Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1841-1900), \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Louise Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1868-1966), \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton Courtwright Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1879-1928), \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1913-1992), \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge H. Venable\u003c/persname\u003e(1864 Mar 16), and other\n members of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003eElliot\u003c/famname\u003efamilies.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEarly letters of interest include many during the courtship\n and marriage of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBettie Burwell Page\u003c/persname\u003e(1860s-1870s); \n \u003cpersname\u003eBettie Burwell Page\u003c/persname\u003eoffering her services\n and those of a Miss Taylor to the Confederate Secretary of the\n Treasury (1862 Oct 3); a letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBettie Burwell Page\u003c/persname\u003econcerning her\n participation in a ceremony to honor the Confederate dead\n (1866 Jul 18); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eto his wife Bettie\n describing the release of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJefferson Davis\u003c/persname\u003efrom prison (1867 May);\n and \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eto General \n \u003cpersname\u003eG.H. Bridges\u003c/persname\u003econcerning the Civil War\n record of her grandfather \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1892 Dec 2).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe letters of \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliot\u003c/persname\u003econsist of\n correspondence with family and friends, and contain a series\n of courtship letters written from about 1890 through 1906 by\n several \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003estudents, including\n \u003cpersname\u003eBasil Jones\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eArchibald Watson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eR.C. Blackford\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRichard S. Whaley\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert L. Parrish\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eHermann Holst Swift\u003c/persname\u003e, among others.\n Several letters written between March and August of 1903\n describe a tour of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMediterranean\u003c/geogname\u003emade by \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Hamilton Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eand give her\n observations on the sites she visited, including \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGibraltar\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNaples\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePompeii\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAthens\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eConstantinople\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlexandria\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCairo\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGiza\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLuxor\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSicily\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRome\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVenice\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorence\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSwitzerland\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eParis\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLondon\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAlso included are letters from \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert L. Parrish\u003c/persname\u003ewhich describe his\n travels in July and August of 1905 to the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGrand Canyon\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eYosemite Valley\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCalifornia\u003c/geogname\u003e, the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Lakes\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCanada\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlaska\u003c/geogname\u003e. The majority of letters circa\n 1902 -1928 are written by \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton Courtwright Elliot\u003c/persname\u003ewho married \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cocke\u003c/persname\u003ein 1906. The correspondence\n contains letters written to and from Lucy and Milton Elliot's\n two sons, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWarren Grice Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e, as well as letters of\n sympathy received on the death of \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton Elliot\u003c/persname\u003ein 1928. The later letters\n of \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cocke Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eare mainly to and from\n members of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke family\u003c/famname\u003e, especially her sister \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003ewith whom she resided\n after the death of her husband Milton, and also include a\n continued correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eHermann Holst Swift\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe letters of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eare considerably more\n extensive and pertain to her involvement in politics and\n historic preservation while also containing letters to family\n and friends. The collection includes letters which outline her\n active involvement in such organizations as the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRobert E. Lee Memorial Foundation\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWoodrow Wilson Foundation\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNational Women's Liberty Loan\n Organization\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWomen's Section of the State Council of\n Defense\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eAlbemarle County Historical Society\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eAlbemarle County Chapter of the Red\n Cross\u003c/corpname\u003e, the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWomen's Organization for Prohibition\n Reform\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia War History Commission\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther topics include letters concerning a trip made by \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003ein 1937 to view the coronation of\n King \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge VI\u003c/persname\u003eand a subsequent tour of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003eduring which she injured her hip\n and had to return home for a long convalescence.\n Correspondence concerning the involvement of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003ein the settlement of\n several Cocke family estates include those of \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeila B. Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, ca. 1925-1930 where Betty\n acted as the administratrix, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRowena L. Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, ca. 1961, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eMazyck Wilson Shields\u003c/persname\u003e, ca. 1942. These\n papers describe the sale of items from the plantation of \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBremo\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFluvanna County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, at auction in\n 1926 and the proposed formation of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBremo Plantation Inc.\u003c/corpname\u003efrom the property of\n the late \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeila B. Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton C. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eacted as legal\n representative during the disposition of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents and subjects include: \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert D. Ballantine\u003c/persname\u003e, who was supposed to\n have committed suicide partly because \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003erejected him (17 Nov 1896; 4\n Jan and 6 Feb 1897; 25 Oct and 31 Dec 1901), letters\n describing his travels in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEurope\u003c/geogname\u003efor education in music and German,\n and in India with his family and friends; the illness and\n death of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBettie Burwell Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(Aug 1900);\n lists of and letters by students who lived in the boarding\n house run by \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1961-1964); and \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Nelson Page\u003c/persname\u003eto \"Miss Cocke\" (2 Dec\n 1902) concerning her request to \"hear him read for her.\"\n Letters concerning artwork include: several to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eabout the sale of a\n Napoleon miniature by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJean Baptiste Isabey\u003c/persname\u003e(July-Oct 1879); and\n the disposition of the equestrian portrait of General Scott\n painted by \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Troye\u003c/persname\u003efrom Troye's widow, \n \u003cpersname\u003eCornelia A. Troye\u003c/persname\u003e(Dec 1874-May 1876);\n letters from representatives of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Military Institute\u003c/corpname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003econcerning the location\n of the bust of General \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eby \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Galt\u003c/persname\u003e(Sept 30, Oct 7, 24, 31,\n 1938; and Nov 6, 1939); letters from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBailey and Griffin Inc.\u003c/corpname\u003e, \"Importers of\n Unusual Chintzes,\" to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eabout a loan of the heirloom\n chintz quilt from \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBremo\u003c/corpname\u003e\" to have the pattern copied (Oct 25\n and Dec 9, 1938; Mar 4, 1939; and Mar 4 and 13, 1940);\n correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003ewith the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Museum of Fine Arts\u003c/corpname\u003eabout the\n loan of 17th and 18th century silver utensils for an exhibit\n (Oct 11, 28, and Nov 9, 1940; and Jan 15, 1941).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe letters of \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton C. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eare chiefly concerned\n with business matters, especially those to Betty regarding the\n buying and selling of property and the \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeila B Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eestate; but also include\n letters to his sons, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eWarren Grice Elliot\u003c/persname\u003ein the 1920s while\n they were boarding students at the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEpiscopal High School\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlexandria, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, and letters to his\n wife Lucy before and after their marriage (previously\n mentioned in connection with Lucy's correspondence). Milton\n was the toastmaster of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eAlfalfa Club\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003ein 1919 and some menus\n and invitations concerning the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eAlfalfa Club\u003c/corpname\u003eare mixed in with the\n correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther items of interest include letters to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003ewhich describe the\n involvement of her friends in World War I, including: a French\n soldier, \n \u003cpersname\u003eA. Murail\u003c/persname\u003e, thanks \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003efor a Christmas gift (27 Dec\n 1916); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Skelton Williams\u003c/persname\u003e' telegram (6 April\n 1917) announces that the President had signed the declaration\n of war; letters from Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eHugh H. Young\u003c/persname\u003edescribe his activities as\n an army doctor, the morale of the soldiers, conditions in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003e, and meetings with General\n Pershing (26 Nov 1917; 26, 29 Mar, 10 Jun, and 3 Sep 1918);\n Corporal \n \u003cpersname\u003eMarion S. Dimmock\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, describing conditions at the\n front (June 1918 and 18 Nov 1918); Other letters (30 Aug, 12\n Sep, and 30 Nov 1918) written by \"Mary P.\" to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003edescribe conditions in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eand her work in the offices of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eAmerican Fund for French Wounded\u003c/corpname\u003e; and a\n description of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eduring the Armistice (21 Nov\n 1918).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence in individual folders includes: circular\n letters from the Rev. \n \u003cpersname\u003eBeverley D. Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e, 1958-1961, describing\n his missionary work in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eJapan\u003c/geogname\u003e, travels to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRussia\u003c/geogname\u003e, his personal affairs, and\n pamphlets about the 1960 construction of \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Michaels Church\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSapporo, Japan\u003c/geogname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Skelton Williams\u003c/persname\u003e, 1917-1921, about\n World War I, and his resignation as Comptroller of the\n Currency, excluding personal letters to the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke family\u003c/famname\u003echiefly of a social nature\n which are interfiled in the general correspondence; \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdith Bolling Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cocke Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e, 1924-1928, including\n letters of sympathy on the death of Milton; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWoodrow Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdith Bolling Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(Edith was a girlhood friend\n of Betty), including some letters from White House\n secretaries, 1919-1955, and undated, chiefly of a personal\n nature except for a transcript of a letter from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWoodrow Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eto the Rector and Visitors\n at the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003evoicing his\n opposition to the proposed moving of the Medical School to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e(1921 May 30); and letters from \n \u003cpersname\u003eNapoleon Drew\u003c/persname\u003eand family, a former slave\n at \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBelmead\u003c/corpname\u003e. \" For photographs of Napoleon\n Drew see Box 32.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFinancial and legal papers includes information about court\n cases and petitions involving the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke family\u003c/famname\u003e; letters from \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e's stockbrokers, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJohn L. Williams and Sons\u003c/corpname\u003e, concerning\n stocks in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSeaboard Syndicate\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWarner Bros\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e2nd Bank of the United States\u003c/corpname\u003e; letters\n about leases, sales of property, deeds, permits, building\n contracts and other papers regarding the real estate dealings\n of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e's correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eS.C. Chancellor\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRedland Corporation\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eXi chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity\u003c/corpname\u003e; a\n permit for liquor purchase during Prohibition (22 Jan 1921);\n funeral expenses and the finances of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eElliot family\u003c/famname\u003eafter the death of \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton C. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003ein 1928; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eAtlantic Coast Railroad Company\u003c/corpname\u003eliens and\n garnishments, 1933-1938 (separately foldered); specifications\n for houses by \n \u003cpersname\u003eEugene Brady\u003c/persname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton Elliot\u003c/persname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCharlottesville\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e(which was never built);\n correspondence regarding the proposed creation of parking\n spaces in front of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRotunda\u003c/corpname\u003eto which Betty was bitterly\n opposed (5 Dec 1941-12 July 1946); and some information about\n the sale of items from \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBremo\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" the settlement of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, and the move of his\n wife and children after his death to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCharlottesville\u003c/geogname\u003e(1889-1892). There are\n also original financial and legal documents from the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBrowne family\u003c/famname\u003eand the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlow family\u003c/famname\u003ein this collection, 1773-1948.\n The \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlow family\u003c/famname\u003edocuments, 1884-1948, chiefly\n pertain to property belonging to \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Blow\u003c/persname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorfolk, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. The \n \u003cfamname\u003eBrowne family\u003c/famname\u003edocuments, 1773-1813 and\n undated, consist of accounts and receipts of Colonel \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Browne\u003c/persname\u003eof \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFour Mile Tree Plantation\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSurry County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJohn Hay \u0026amp; Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eKilmarnock Carpet Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, and \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJohn Hyndman \u0026amp; Company\u003c/corpname\u003e; stud fees;\n and promissory notes.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe genealogical and historical research files were\n assembled by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1913-1992), son of \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton C. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Cocke Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e, and include\n correspondence, notes, genealogical charts and diagrams,\n photographs of portraits and individuals, printed material\n from magazines, newsclippings, copies and transcripts of\n letters, and miscellaneous related material. Most of the\n original letters have been filed with the correspondence\n series.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeveral original items pertaining to the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke family\u003c/famname\u003ehave been interfiled with the\n rest of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke Family\u003c/famname\u003ePapers in 640, etc., including:\n \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBelmead\u003c/geogname\u003e\" building plans, Box 182 (n.d.);\n a letter from \n \u003cpersname\u003eBuller Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Hartwell Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, August 23, 1820 (Box\n 32); a bank book of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn T. Bowdoin\u003c/persname\u003e, 1817-1819, with the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBank of the United States\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorfolk\u003c/geogname\u003e(Box 25); a bank book of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, 1838-1839, with\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eExchange Bank of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e(Box 93); a drawing of a\n carriage, Box 182 (n.d.); two appointments of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eto Visitor of\n V.M.I. (1850 May 25 and 1858 May 25), Box 132, and an\n appointment as an \"aide de camp,\" Box 131, (1850 Feb 22);\n pedigree for a horse owned by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Hartwell Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, Seagate, Box 182\n (n.d.); a list of valuables, Box 172, (1865 Mar 13); and a\n drawing of an \"Overseer's Cottage\" at \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFour Mile Tree Plantation\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSurry County\u003c/geogname\u003e, possibly by \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, Box 93\n (1838).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThese genealogical files are arranged alphabetically by the\n name of the family, individual, or subject. Some files also\n include information about children and wives under the name of\n the father. Folders which include photographs, notable\n correspondents, etc. are listed here:\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eBarraud Family\u003c/famname\u003ePortraits - \n \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Cary Barraud\u003c/persname\u003e(1725-1784?); \n \u003cpersname\u003eAnn Barraud Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1785-1816); \n \u003cpersname\u003eAnn Blaws Hansford Barraud\u003c/persname\u003e(1760-1836);\n Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip Barraud\u003c/persname\u003e(1758-1830); \n \u003cpersname\u003eCatherine Curle Barraud\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eCourtney Bowdoin Cocke Barraud\u003c/persname\u003e; and \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip Barraud\u003c/persname\u003e\u0026amp; \n \u003cpersname\u003eCourtney Barraud\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBelmead\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePowhatan County\u003c/geogname\u003e-Copies of correspondence\n re the sale of the plantation in 1892 and copies of\n correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eFiske Kimball\u003c/persname\u003econcerning \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBelmead\u003c/corpname\u003e\"; early photographs, including\n the house, furniture, furnishings, grounds, the mill, fields,\n barnyards and barn; a folder concerning \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBelmead\u003c/corpname\u003e\" after it was sold and became the\n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Emma Military Academy\u003c/corpname\u003efor black\n men.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eBlow Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eMargaret Blow Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1849-1910); Judge \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Blow\u003c/persname\u003e(1813-1894); and \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Taylor Allmand Blow\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eBowdoin Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker Bowdoin\u003c/persname\u003e(1787-1821); and \n \u003cpersname\u003eSally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin)\n Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1815-1872).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBremo\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFluvanna County\u003c/geogname\u003e-Photographs of \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBremo\u003c/corpname\u003e\"; copies of correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eFiske Kimball\u003c/persname\u003e; and material pertaining to\n the auction sale of 1926.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eBrowne Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker Bowdoin\u003c/persname\u003e( \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Edwards Browne\u003c/persname\u003e, 1794-1815); and\n Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Browne\u003c/persname\u003e( \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Ruffin\u003c/persname\u003e, 1771-1799?).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eBurwell Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photograph of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdmond Bradford Burwell\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eCarter Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Carter\u003c/persname\u003e( \n \u003cpersname\u003eJudith Armistead\u003c/persname\u003e) and Colonel \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Carter\u003c/persname\u003eof \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eCorotoman\u003c/corpname\u003e. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eand friends; a \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003egraduation scene; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Paul's Memorial Church\u003c/corpname\u003e, at the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003e; \"Winnie, the\n colored maid, cook, mammy \u0026amp; friend of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Louise Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e\"; UVA students; the\n boarding house; and Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Minor\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Burwell Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1841-1900); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1836-1889); and the\n Rev. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Cosby\u003c/persname\u003e; the commission of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJ.B. Cocke\u003c/persname\u003ein the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Militia\u003c/corpname\u003e; and the marriage\n license of Betty and \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1871-1951)\n -Photographs of himself and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGas Works Crew\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSavannah, Georgia\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eJohn Hartwell Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn H. Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eSally Cocke Faulcon\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eSally Faulcon (Cocke) Brent\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Blaws Barraud Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1784-1816).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMary Louise Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e-Photographs of herself\n and a trip to the West Coast.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eNorborne Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1878-1940)\n -Photographs of himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eSally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin) Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e;\n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1809-1861); Miss \n \u003cpersname\u003e\"Bunny\" Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhilip St. George Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1844-); and\n copies of correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eDouglas Southall Freeman\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eRichard Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eRichard Cocke\u003c/persname\u003eIV (1707-1772); Colonel \n \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1746-1813).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eCorbin Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photograph of [ \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Corbin\u003c/persname\u003e?].\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eNapoleon Bonaparte Drew\u003c/persname\u003e-Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eElliot Family\u003c/famname\u003efolders with photographs\n include: \n \u003cpersname\u003eAllmand Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1881-1908); \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Preston (Elliot) Wilson\u003c/persname\u003e(1887\n -?) and Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eGordon Wilson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Blow Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1873-1948); \n \u003cpersname\u003eEsther Ellery Elliot Sparkman\u003c/persname\u003e(?-1955); \n \u003cpersname\u003eEllery Sparkman\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eGilbert Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles G. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eMargaret Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1884-1966); \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton C. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1879-1928) and his sons,\n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eWarren Grice Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWarren Grice Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e(1848-1906); \n \u003cpersname\u003eMargaret Blow\u003c/persname\u003e(1849-1910); and \n \u003cpersname\u003eWarren Grice Elliot, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e(1875-1930).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFour Acres\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCharlottesville, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFour Mile Tree Plantation\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSurry County\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eGrice Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Grice\u003c/persname\u003e(1762-1832); and \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Grice\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eLower Bremo\u003c/corpname\u003e\" and \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBremo Recess\u003c/corpname\u003e\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSurry County\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eNelson Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Burwell Nelson\u003c/persname\u003e(1718-1793); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Nelson\u003c/persname\u003e(1711-1772); \n \u003cpersname\u003eMargaret Reade Nelson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Nelson\u003c/persname\u003e; and \n \u003cpersname\u003eJane Byrd Nelson\u003c/persname\u003e(engraving).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003ePage Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of Colonel \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJane (Byrd) Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \" \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRosewell\u003c/corpname\u003e\" ruins; Colonel \n \u003cpersname\u003eMatthew Page\u003c/persname\u003e(1659-1703); \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Mann Page\u003c/persname\u003e(1672-1707); \n \u003cpersname\u003eMann Page\u003c/persname\u003eI (1691-1730); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJudith Carter Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eMann Page\u003c/persname\u003eII (1749-1803); \n \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Corbin Tayloe Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Landonia Page Booker\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Carter Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Armistead Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eHamilton Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eNorborne Thomas Page, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Burwell Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Paul's Church\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Louise Jones Page\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eNorborne Thomas Nelson Page\u003c/persname\u003e; Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Booker\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Booker\u003c/persname\u003e\u0026amp; Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eLily Booker Cole\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs -Miscellaneous - \n \u003cpersname\u003eWoodrow Wilson\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003ccorpname\u003ePetersburg Mathematical \u0026amp; Classical\n Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eFitzhugh Lee\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia Rotunda\u003c/corpname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas H. Carter\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Ben Johnston\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilson Howe\u003c/persname\u003e(1903 -?); \n \u003cpersname\u003eHelen Johnston\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Roy Johnston\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003estudents and\n buildings; \n \u003cpersname\u003eHerman H. Swift\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Lancaster\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoe Cox\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eMaria Garnett Venn\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cpersname\u003eEllen Douglas\u003c/persname\u003e; Burton, \n \u003cpersname\u003eArchibald Henderson\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJean Craige\u003c/persname\u003e; \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVicksburg\u003c/geogname\u003eseawall; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBloomfield Academy\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e; French ruins \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBelleau Woods\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChateau-Thierry\u003c/geogname\u003egravesite.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cfamname\u003eTayloe Family\u003c/famname\u003e-Photographs of Mr. \u0026amp; Mrs.\n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tayloe\u003c/persname\u003eI.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eEdward Troye\u003c/persname\u003e-Printed Material \u0026amp;\n Photographs -Horses \"Utilitarian,\" \"Roebuck,\" \"Cleveland.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe bound volume, memorabilia, and oversize material series\n is listed in detail at the end of this guide. Any bound\n volumes not in folders have been assigned a number to\n facilitate location in the box. Memorabilia consists of\n membership cards, annual tickets of admission, and railroad\n passes belonging to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy H. Cocke Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton C. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e; calling cards; a \n \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic National Convention\u003c/corpname\u003esouvenir;\n U.S. Government Thrift Card; Six \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/geogname\u003eCoronation commemorative\n stamps, 1937 May 12; War Ration Book; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJamestown Exposition\u003c/corpname\u003esouvenir; autograph\n of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFitzhugh Lee\u003c/persname\u003e; and \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003ememorabilia,\n including ribbons and pins from various ribbon societies (see\n Box 39 and Mini-Tray 40). The bound volumes are chiefly those\n of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke family\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton C. Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e, and include school\n notebooks, annuals and autograph albums; travel journals;\n memoranda books; a ledger; address books; a scrapbook of\n newsclippings; diaries; visitation and wedding invitation\n books; an account book; and a photgraph album of \n \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003escenes, belonging\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Hamilton Cocke Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e[ante\n 1906?].\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOversize material includes a pardon to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1865 Jul 6);\n photographs of Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eNorborne Page Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Blow Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Gibbs McAdoo\u003c/persname\u003e, and members of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFederal Reserve Board\u003c/corpname\u003e; certificates of\n membership and career advancements of \n \u003cpersname\u003eMilton Elliot\u003c/persname\u003ein law practice in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePennsylvania\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e; \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSons of the American\n Revolution\u003c/corpname\u003ecertificate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker Bowdoin Cocke\u003c/persname\u003e(1926 Jun 1);\n architectural drawings for residences and outbuildings of M.C.\n and \n \u003cpersname\u003eLucy Elliot\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Page Elliot\u003c/persname\u003e; and genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n \u003cfamname\u003eCocke\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003ePage\u003c/famname\u003efamilies.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n Cocke- \n ElliotFamily papers contain ca. 15,000\n items (41 Hollinger boxes, ca. 17 linear feet and four\n oversize folders), ca. 1773-1992, and consist largely of\n personal and family correspondence, financial and legal\n papers, memorabilia, bound volumes, and genealogical and\n historical research material pertaining to the \n Cocke, \n Elliot, and related families from the\n colonial period through the twentieth century, assembled by \n John Page Elliot.","The correspondence consists chiefly of the letters of \n Betty Page Cocke(1872-1973), a prominent\n resident of \n Charlottesville, Virginia, and those of\n her sister, \n Lucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliot(1876-1969),\n descendants of General \n John Hartwell Cocke. The collection also\n includes some correspondence of \n John Hartwell Cocke(1780-1866), 1853 Mar\n 9, 1856 Nov 4; General \n Phillip St. George Cocke(1809-1861), \n John Bowdoin Cocke(1836-1889), \n John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke(1871-1951), \n Bettie Burwell (Page) Cocke(1841-1900), \n Mary Louise Cocke(1868-1966), \n Milton Courtwright Elliot(1879-1928), \n John Page Elliot(1913-1992), \n George H. Venable(1864 Mar 16), and other\n members of the \n Cockeand \n Elliotfamilies.","Early letters of interest include many during the courtship\n and marriage of \n John Bowdoin Cockeand \n Bettie Burwell Page(1860s-1870s); \n Bettie Burwell Pageoffering her services\n and those of a Miss Taylor to the Confederate Secretary of the\n Treasury (1862 Oct 3); a letter to \n Bettie Burwell Pageconcerning her\n participation in a ceremony to honor the Confederate dead\n (1866 Jul 18); \n John Bowdoin Cocketo his wife Bettie\n describing the release of \n Jefferson Davisfrom prison (1867 May);\n and \n Betty Page Cocketo General \n G.H. Bridgesconcerning the Civil War\n record of her grandfather \n Philip St. George Cocke(1892 Dec 2).","The letters of \n Lucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliotconsist of\n correspondence with family and friends, and contain a series\n of courtship letters written from about 1890 through 1906 by\n several \n University of Virginiastudents, including\n Basil Jones, \n Archibald Watson, \n R.C. Blackford, \n Richard S. Whaley, \n Robert L. Parrish, and \n Hermann Holst Swift, among others.\n Several letters written between March and August of 1903\n describe a tour of \n Europeand the \n Mediterraneanmade by \n Lucy Hamilton Cockeand give her\n observations on the sites she visited, including \n Gibraltar, \n Naples, \n Pompeii, \n Athens, \n Constantinople, \n Alexandria, \n Cairo, \n Giza, \n Luxor, \n Sicily, \n Rome, \n Venice, \n Florence, \n Switzerland, \n Paris, and \n London.","Also included are letters from \n Robert L. Parrishwhich describe his\n travels in July and August of 1905 to the \n Grand Canyon, \n Yosemite Valley, \n California, the \n Great Lakes, \n Canada, and \n Alaska. The majority of letters circa\n 1902 -1928 are written by \n Milton Courtwright Elliotwho married \n Lucy Cockein 1906. The correspondence\n contains letters written to and from Lucy and Milton Elliot's\n two sons, \n Warren Grice Elliotand \n John Page Elliot, as well as letters of\n sympathy received on the death of \n Milton Elliotin 1928. The later letters\n of \n Lucy Cocke Elliotare mainly to and from\n members of the \n Cocke family, especially her sister \n Betty Page Cockewith whom she resided\n after the death of her husband Milton, and also include a\n continued correspondence with \n Hermann Holst Swift.","The letters of \n Betty Page Cockeare considerably more\n extensive and pertain to her involvement in politics and\n historic preservation while also containing letters to family\n and friends. The collection includes letters which outline her\n active involvement in such organizations as the \n Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, the \n Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the \n National Women's Liberty Loan\n Organization, the \n Women's Section of the State Council of\n Defense, the \n Albemarle County Historical Society, the \n Albemarle County Chapter of the Red\n Cross, the \n Women's Organization for Prohibition\n Reform, and the \n Virginia War History Commission.","Other topics include letters concerning a trip made by \n Betty Page Cocketo \n Englandin 1937 to view the coronation of\n King \n George VIand a subsequent tour of \n Europeduring which she injured her hip\n and had to return home for a long convalescence.\n Correspondence concerning the involvement of \n Betty Page Cockein the settlement of\n several Cocke family estates include those of \n Leila B. Cocke, ca. 1925-1930 where Betty\n acted as the administratrix, \n Rowena L. Cocke, ca. 1961, and \n Mazyck Wilson Shields, ca. 1942. These\n papers describe the sale of items from the plantation of \" \n Bremo, \" \n Fluvanna County, Virginia, at auction in\n 1926 and the proposed formation of the \n Bremo Plantation Inc.from the property of\n the late \n Leila B. Cocke. \n Milton C. Elliotacted as legal\n representative during the disposition of the estate.","Other correspondents and subjects include: \n Robert D. Ballantine, who was supposed to\n have committed suicide partly because \n Betty Cockerejected him (17 Nov 1896; 4\n Jan and 6 Feb 1897; 25 Oct and 31 Dec 1901), letters\n describing his travels in \n Europefor education in music and German,\n and in India with his family and friends; the illness and\n death of \n Bettie Burwell Page Cocke(Aug 1900);\n lists of and letters by students who lived in the boarding\n house run by \n Betty Cocke(1961-1964); and \n Thomas Nelson Pageto \"Miss Cocke\" (2 Dec\n 1902) concerning her request to \"hear him read for her.\"\n Letters concerning artwork include: several to \n John Bowdoin Cockeabout the sale of a\n Napoleon miniature by \n Jean Baptiste Isabey(July-Oct 1879); and\n the disposition of the equestrian portrait of General Scott\n painted by \n Edward Troyefrom Troye's widow, \n Cornelia A. Troye(Dec 1874-May 1876);\n letters from representatives of the \n Virginia Military Instituteto \n Betty Page Cockeconcerning the location\n of the bust of General \n Philip St. George Cockeby \n Alexander Galt(Sept 30, Oct 7, 24, 31,\n 1938; and Nov 6, 1939); letters from \n Bailey and Griffin Inc., \"Importers of\n Unusual Chintzes,\" to \n Betty Cockeabout a loan of the heirloom\n chintz quilt from \" \n Bremo\" to have the pattern copied (Oct 25\n and Dec 9, 1938; Mar 4, 1939; and Mar 4 and 13, 1940);\n correspondence of \n Betty Cockewith the \n Virginia Museum of Fine Artsabout the\n loan of 17th and 18th century silver utensils for an exhibit\n (Oct 11, 28, and Nov 9, 1940; and Jan 15, 1941).","The letters of \n Milton C. Elliotare chiefly concerned\n with business matters, especially those to Betty regarding the\n buying and selling of property and the \n Leila B Cockeestate; but also include\n letters to his sons, \n John Page Elliotand \n Warren Grice Elliotin the 1920s while\n they were boarding students at the \n Episcopal High Schoolin \n Alexandria, Virginia, and letters to his\n wife Lucy before and after their marriage (previously\n mentioned in connection with Lucy's correspondence). Milton\n was the toastmaster of the \n Alfalfa Clubin \n Washington, D.C.in 1919 and some menus\n and invitations concerning the \n Alfalfa Clubare mixed in with the\n correspondence.","Other items of interest include letters to \n Betty Page Cockewhich describe the\n involvement of her friends in World War I, including: a French\n soldier, \n A. Murail, thanks \n Betty Cockefor a Christmas gift (27 Dec\n 1916); \n John Skelton Williams' telegram (6 April\n 1917) announces that the President had signed the declaration\n of war; letters from Dr. \n Hugh H. Youngdescribe his activities as\n an army doctor, the morale of the soldiers, conditions in \n France, and meetings with General\n Pershing (26 Nov 1917; 26, 29 Mar, 10 Jun, and 3 Sep 1918);\n Corporal \n Marion S. Dimmockwrites to \n Betty Cocke, describing conditions at the\n front (June 1918 and 18 Nov 1918); Other letters (30 Aug, 12\n Sep, and 30 Nov 1918) written by \"Mary P.\" to \n Betty Page Cockedescribe conditions in \n Franceand her work in the offices of the \n American Fund for French Wounded; and a\n description of \n Franceduring the Armistice (21 Nov\n 1918).","Correspondence in individual folders includes: circular\n letters from the Rev. \n Beverley D. Tucker, 1958-1961, describing\n his missionary work in \n Japan, travels to \n Russia, his personal affairs, and\n pamphlets about the 1960 construction of \n St. Michaels Churchin \n Sapporo, Japan; \n John Skelton Williams, 1917-1921, about\n World War I, and his resignation as Comptroller of the\n Currency, excluding personal letters to the \n Cocke familychiefly of a social nature\n which are interfiled in the general correspondence; \n Edith Bolling Wilsonto \n Lucy Cocke Elliot, 1924-1928, including\n letters of sympathy on the death of Milton; \n Woodrow Wilsonand \n Edith Bolling Wilsonto \n Betty Cocke(Edith was a girlhood friend\n of Betty), including some letters from White House\n secretaries, 1919-1955, and undated, chiefly of a personal\n nature except for a transcript of a letter from \n Woodrow Wilsonto the Rector and Visitors\n at the \n University of Virginiavoicing his\n opposition to the proposed moving of the Medical School to \n Richmond(1921 May 30); and letters from \n Napoleon Drewand family, a former slave\n at \" \n Belmead. \" For photographs of Napoleon\n Drew see Box 32.","Financial and legal papers includes information about court\n cases and petitions involving the \n Cocke family; letters from \n Betty Cocke's stockbrokers, \n John L. Williams and Sons, concerning\n stocks in the \n Seaboard Syndicate, \n Warner Bros, and the \n 2nd Bank of the United States; letters\n about leases, sales of property, deeds, permits, building\n contracts and other papers regarding the real estate dealings\n of \n Betty Cocke; \n Lucy Elliot's correspondence with \n S.C. Chancellor, \n Redland Corporation, and the \n Xi chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity; a\n permit for liquor purchase during Prohibition (22 Jan 1921);\n funeral expenses and the finances of the \n Elliot familyafter the death of \n Milton C. Elliotin 1928; \n Atlantic Coast Railroad Companyliens and\n garnishments, 1933-1938 (separately foldered); specifications\n for houses by \n Eugene Bradyfor \n Milton Elliotin \n Charlottesvilleand \n Washington, D.C.(which was never built);\n correspondence regarding the proposed creation of parking\n spaces in front of the \n Rotundato which Betty was bitterly\n opposed (5 Dec 1941-12 July 1946); and some information about\n the sale of items from \" \n Bremo, \" the settlement of the estate of \n John Bowdoin Cocke, and the move of his\n wife and children after his death to \n Charlottesville(1889-1892). There are\n also original financial and legal documents from the \n Browne familyand the \n Blow familyin this collection, 1773-1948.\n The \n Blow familydocuments, 1884-1948, chiefly\n pertain to property belonging to \n George Blowin \n Norfolk, Virginia. The \n Browne familydocuments, 1773-1813 and\n undated, consist of accounts and receipts of Colonel \n William Browneof \" \n Four Mile Tree Plantation, \" \n Surry County, Virginia, with \n John Hay \u0026 Company, \n Kilmarnock Carpet Company, and \n John Hyndman \u0026 Company; stud fees;\n and promissory notes.","The genealogical and historical research files were\n assembled by \n John Page Elliot(1913-1992), son of \n Milton C. Elliotand \n Lucy Cocke Elliot, and include\n correspondence, notes, genealogical charts and diagrams,\n photographs of portraits and individuals, printed material\n from magazines, newsclippings, copies and transcripts of\n letters, and miscellaneous related material. Most of the\n original letters have been filed with the correspondence\n series.","Several original items pertaining to the \n Cocke familyhave been interfiled with the\n rest of the \n Cocke FamilyPapers in 640, etc., including:\n \" \n Belmead\" building plans, Box 182 (n.d.);\n a letter from \n Buller Cocketo \n John Hartwell Cocke, August 23, 1820 (Box\n 32); a bank book of \n John T. Bowdoin, 1817-1819, with the \n Bank of the United States, \n Norfolk(Box 25); a bank book of \n Philip St. George Cocke, 1838-1839, with\n the \n Exchange Bank of Virginia, \n Richmond(Box 93); a drawing of a\n carriage, Box 182 (n.d.); two appointments of \n Philip St. George Cocketo Visitor of\n V.M.I. (1850 May 25 and 1858 May 25), Box 132, and an\n appointment as an \"aide de camp,\" Box 131, (1850 Feb 22);\n pedigree for a horse owned by \n John Hartwell Cocke, Seagate, Box 182\n (n.d.); a list of valuables, Box 172, (1865 Mar 13); and a\n drawing of an \"Overseer's Cottage\" at \" \n Four Mile Tree Plantation, \" \n Surry County, possibly by \n Philip St. George Cocke, Box 93\n (1838).","These genealogical files are arranged alphabetically by the\n name of the family, individual, or subject. Some files also\n include information about children and wives under the name of\n the father. Folders which include photographs, notable\n correspondents, etc. are listed here:","Barraud FamilyPortraits - \n Daniel Cary Barraud(1725-1784?); \n Ann Barraud Cocke(1785-1816); \n Ann Blaws Hansford Barraud(1760-1836);\n Dr. \n Philip Barraud(1758-1830); \n Catherine Curle Barraud; \n Courtney Bowdoin Cocke Barraud; and \n Philip Barraud\u0026 \n Courtney Barraud.","\" \n Belmead, \" \n Powhatan County-Copies of correspondence\n re the sale of the plantation in 1892 and copies of\n correspondence with \n Fiske Kimballconcerning \" \n Belmead\"; early photographs, including\n the house, furniture, furnishings, grounds, the mill, fields,\n barnyards and barn; a folder concerning \" \n Belmead\" after it was sold and became the\n St. Emma Military Academyfor black\n men.","Blow Family-Photographs of \n Margaret Blow Elliot(1849-1910); Judge \n George Blow(1813-1894); and \n Elizabeth Taylor Allmand Blow.","Bowdoin Family-Photographs of \n John Tucker Bowdoin(1787-1821); and \n Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin)\n Cocke(1815-1872).","\" \n Bremo, \" \n Fluvanna County-Photographs of \" \n Bremo\"; copies of correspondence with \n Fiske Kimball; and material pertaining to\n the auction sale of 1926.","Browne Family-Photographs of Mrs. \n John Tucker Bowdoin( \n Sarah Edwards Browne, 1794-1815); and\n Mrs. \n William Browne( \n Elizabeth Ruffin, 1771-1799?).","Burwell Family-Photograph of \n Edmond Bradford Burwell.","Carter Family-Photographs of Mrs. \n Robert Carter( \n Judith Armistead) and Colonel \n Robert Carterof \" \n Corotoman. \"","Betty Page Cocke-Photographs of \n Betty Cockeand friends; a \n University of Virginiagraduation scene; \n St. Paul's Memorial Church, at the \n University of Virginia; \"Winnie, the\n colored maid, cook, mammy \u0026 friend of \n Betty Page Cockeand \n Mary Louise Cocke\"; UVA students; the\n boarding house; and Dr. \n Charles Minor.","John Bowdoin Cocke-Photographs of \n Betty Burwell Page Cocke(1841-1900); \n John Bowdoin Cocke(1836-1889); and the\n Rev. \n John Cosby; the commission of \n J.B. Cockein the \n Virginia Militia; and the marriage\n license of Betty and \n John Bowdoin Cocke.","John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke(1871-1951)\n -Photographs of himself and the \n Gas Works Crew, \n Savannah, Georgia.","John Hartwell Cocke-Photographs of \n John H. Cocke; \n Sally Cocke Faulcon; \n Sally Faulcon (Cocke) Brent; \n Anne Blaws Barraud Cocke(1784-1816).","Mary Louise Cocke-Photographs of herself\n and a trip to the West Coast.","Norborne Page Cocke(1878-1940)\n -Photographs of himself.","Philip St. George Cocke-Photographs of \n Sally Elizabeth Courtney (Bowdoin) Cocke;\n Philip St. George Cocke(1809-1861); Miss \n \"Bunny\" Cocke; \n Philip St. George Cocke(1844-); and\n copies of correspondence with \n Douglas Southall Freeman.","Richard Cocke-Photographs of \n Richard CockeIV (1707-1772); Colonel \n Nathaniel Cocke(1746-1813).","Corbin Family-Photograph of [ \n Henry Corbin?].","Napoleon Bonaparte Drew-Photographs.","Elliot Familyfolders with photographs\n include: \n Allmand Elliot(1881-1908); \n Elizabeth Preston (Elliot) Wilson(1887\n -?) and Dr. \n Gordon Wilson; \n George Blow Elliot(1873-1948); \n Esther Ellery Elliot Sparkman(?-1955); \n Ellery Sparkman; \n Gilbert Elliot; \n Charles G. Elliot; \n Lucy Hamilton (Cocke) Elliot; \n Margaret Elliot(1884-1966); \n Milton C. Elliot(1879-1928) and his sons,\n John Page Elliotand \n Warren Grice Elliot; \n Warren Grice Elliot(1848-1906); \n Margaret Blow(1849-1910); and \n Warren Grice Elliot, Jr.(1875-1930).","\" \n Four Acres, \" \n Charlottesville, Virginia","\" \n Four Mile Tree Plantation, \" \n Surry County","Grice Family-Photographs of \n Charles Grice(1762-1832); and \n Joseph Grice.","\" \n Lower Bremo\" and \" \n Bremo Recess\"","\" \n Mount Pleasant, \" \n Surry County","Nelson Family-Photographs of \n Elizabeth Burwell Nelson(1718-1793); \n William Nelson(1711-1772); \n Margaret Reade Nelson; \n Lucy Nelson; and \n Jane Byrd Nelson(engraving).","Page Family-Photographs of Colonel \n John Page; \n Jane (Byrd) Page; \" \n Rosewell\" ruins; Colonel \n Matthew Page(1659-1703); \n Mary Mann Page(1672-1707); \n Mann PageI (1691-1730); \n Judith Carter Page; \n Mann PageII (1749-1803); \n Anne Corbin Tayloe Page; \n Lucy Landonia Page Booker; \n Charles Carter Page; \n William Armistead Page; \n John Page; \n Hamilton Page; \n Norborne Thomas Page, Jr.; \n Betty Burwell Page Cocke; \n St. Paul's Church, \n Petersburg; \n Mary Louise Jones Page; \n Norborne Thomas Nelson Page; Mrs. \n Lewis Booker, \n Betty Booker\u0026 Mrs. \n Lily Booker Cole.","Photographs -Miscellaneous - \n Woodrow Wilson; \n Petersburg Mathematical \u0026 Classical\n Institute; \n Fitzhugh Lee; \n University of Virginia Rotunda; \n Thomas H. Carter; \n George Ben Johnston; \n Wilson Howe(1903 -?); \n Helen Johnstonand \n Anne Roy Johnston; \n University of Virginiastudents and\n buildings; \n Herman H. Swift; \n William Lancaster; \n Joe Cox; \n Maria Garnett Venn; \n Ellen Douglas; Burton, \n Archibald Hendersonand \n Jean Craige; \n Vicksburgseawall; \n Bloomfield Academy, \n Albemarle County; French ruins \n Belleau Woodsand \n Chateau-Thierrygravesite.","Tayloe Family-Photographs of Mr. \u0026 Mrs.\n John TayloeI.","Edward Troye-Printed Material \u0026\n Photographs -Horses \"Utilitarian,\" \"Roebuck,\" \"Cleveland.\"","The bound volume, memorabilia, and oversize material series\n is listed in detail at the end of this guide. Any bound\n volumes not in folders have been assigned a number to\n facilitate location in the box. Memorabilia consists of\n membership cards, annual tickets of admission, and railroad\n passes belonging to \n Betty Cocke, \n Lucy H. Cocke Elliotand \n Milton C. Elliot; calling cards; a \n Democratic National Conventionsouvenir;\n U.S. Government Thrift Card; Six \n Great BritainCoronation commemorative\n stamps, 1937 May 12; War Ration Book; \n Jamestown Expositionsouvenir; autograph\n of \n Fitzhugh Lee; and \n University of Virginiamemorabilia,\n including ribbons and pins from various ribbon societies (see\n Box 39 and Mini-Tray 40). The bound volumes are chiefly those\n of the \n Cocke familyand \n Milton C. Elliot, and include school\n notebooks, annuals and autograph albums; travel journals;\n memoranda books; a ledger; address books; a scrapbook of\n newsclippings; diaries; visitation and wedding invitation\n books; an account book; and a photgraph album of \n University of Virginiascenes, belonging\n to \n Lucy Hamilton Cocke Elliot[ante\n 1906?].","Oversize material includes a pardon to \n John Bowdoin Cocke(1865 Jul 6);\n photographs of Dr. \n Norborne Page Cocke, \n George Blow Elliot, \n William Gibbs McAdoo, and members of the \n Federal Reserve Board; certificates of\n membership and career advancements of \n Milton Elliotin law practice in \n Virginia, \n Pennsylvania, and \n Washington, D.C.; \n Sons of the American\n Revolutioncertificate of \n John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke(1926 Jun 1);\n architectural drawings for residences and outbuildings of M.C.\n and \n Lucy Elliotand \n John Page Elliot; and genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Cockeand \n Pagefamilies."],"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."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n "],"corpname_ssim":["University of Virginia. 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Most of these\n papers concern \n Robert G. Wrightof \n North Gardenand \n James Johnstonof \n Hardware.","Johnston was postmaster of \n Hardwareca. 1885-1890, a general merchant\n dealing in general merchandise, and a miller who operated the \n Green Mountain Mill. One receipt (April\n 17, 1875) indicates that he also rented a place called \n Coles Millfor his milling business. His\n business papers, 1868-1899, reflect his mercantile activities\n and his post office business.","James Johnstonapparently ran the store at\n Hardware, Virginia, for his\n brother-in-law, \n Bob Wright, secretary of the \n Waynesboro Company. Much of the business\n correspondence for 1890-1891 contains Wright's pleas for\n Johnston to accept only cash payments for goods, to collect on\n bad debts, and to furnish him with inventories and orders for\n goods so that he could meet his own obligations.","The few pieces of personal correspondence, 1873-1892, are\n chiefly from Johnston's sisters Mollie [?] and \n Sallie (Johnston) Wright, concerning\n family matters but they also include a letter from \n Thomas E. Locke, a minister, about his\n services and salary (July 14, 1891) and a letter from \n William Garlandto \n Joshua Martin(October 31, 1885)\n concerning the arrival of a \"carpetbagger,\" termed a \"Yanke\n Mahone Emmissary,\" in the black community.","The miscellaneous papers contain undated poems and an\n invitation to the graduation exercises of \n Valley Seminary(1888) at \n Waynesboro, Virginia. 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Correspondence (Box 1)","II. Legal and Financial Papers (Boxes 2-3)","III. Miscellaneous Papers (Box 4)","IV. Notebooks and Bound Volumes (Boxes 5-7)","V. Papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast \u0026 Geodetic\n Survey (Boxes 8-11)","VI. Oversize Items \u0026 2M Volumes","John Baylor 1 ( \n 1650- \n 1720) resident of \n Gloucester County, Virginia, and later \n King and Queen County, Virginia, married \n Lucy Todd O'Brien (ca.1681-?) of \n New Kent County, Virginia, in \n 1698. They were believed to have had three\n offspring, \n Frances Baylor, \n Robert Baylor, and \n John Baylor 2. The children of their son,\n Colonel \n John2 Baylor ( \n 1705- \n 1772), and \n Frances Walker (?- \n 1783) were as follows:","1) \n Courtney Baylor m. Jasper Clayton of \n Gloucester County","2) \n Lucy Baylor m. \n John Armistead","3) \n Frances Baylor m. \n John Nicholson","4) \n Elizabeth Baylor unmarried","5) \n John Baylor 3 ( \n 1750- \n 1808) m. \n Frances Norton ( \n 1760- \n 1815) in \n 1778","6) \n George Baylor ( \n 1752- \n 1784) m. \n Lucy Page in \n 1778","7) \n Walker Baylor ( ? - \n 1823) m. \n Jane Bledsoe","8) \n Robert Baylor m. Miss Gwynne","The children of \n John Baylor 3 and \n Frances Norton were:","1) \n Frances Courtney Baylor ( \n 1779- \n 1780)","2) \n Courtney Orange Baylor ( \n 1781-? ) m. _____ Fox","3) \n Lucy Elizabeth Todd Baylor ( ? - \n 1823) m. [Sen. \n John H. Upshaw ] in \n 1809","4) \n Louisa Henrietta Baylor m. [ \n William T. Upshaw ]","5) \n Susanna Frances Baylor ( \n 1783- \n 1837) m. \n John Sutton","6) \n John Baylor 4 m. \n Maria Ann Roy ( \n 1790- \n 1850) in \n 1819","7) Dr. \n George Daniel Baylor m. Miss Lewis","The issue of \n John Baylor 4 and \n Maria Ann Roy was Dr. \n John Roy Baylor","John Baylor ( \n 1821- \n 1897) who married \n Anne Bowen of \n Albemarle County and produced the\n following offspring:","1) Captain \n James Bowen Baylor ( \n 1849- \n 1924) m. \n Ellen Carter Bruce (died ca. \n 1899) in ca. \n 1881, producing three children: \n Evelyn Courtney Blackford Baylor, \n Anne Baylor, and \n John Baylor ( \n 1890- \n 1968).","2) \n Maria Roy Baylor","3) \n John Roy Baylor, Jr. ( \n 1851- \n 1926) m. \n Julia Howard","Scope and Content\n The papers of the \n Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n 2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n 1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.\n These papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.\n John Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n England, at the \n Putney Grammer School and \n Caius College, \n Cambridge. While in \n England, he developed a keen interest\n in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n name his new home, \" \n Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n the development of American thoroughbreds. \n John Baylor also rendered public\n service to the newly formed county of \n Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.\n All four of the sons of \n John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n War. \n John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n live in \n Europe until they could obtain a return\n passage to \n America.\n \n George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n of the \n Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n 1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n General \n George Washington. He was commanding\n officer of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n the \n First Continental Dragoons on November\n 9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n Brigadier General.\n \n Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n and captain of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n Revolution. He along with his other brother \n Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n Revolution, immigrated to \n Kentucky. Later \n Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory.\n The estate of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n a member of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey team.\n The correspondence series contains the correspondence\n from family members, friends, and business associates of\n all the above generations of the \n Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n pertaining to the sojourn of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n England prior to and during the\n Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n Colonel \n John Baylor's son at school in \n Caius College, \n Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n intentions of returning to the \n United States (December 28, 1770); the\n advice of \n William Bond, a former teacher of \n John Baylor, for him to seek further\n educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n William Bond's request for \n John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n and to visit \n England (May 4, 1778); \n John Baylor's trip to \n England to wed his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n the Baylor's leaving \n England, and comments concerning the\n fashions and decadence of \n England (May 4, 1779).\n Correspondence concerning events leading up to and\n including the Revolutionary War includes: \n Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n London to \n John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n Grand's letter refusing to advise \n John Baylor due to threat of prison\n (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n Committee of Correspondence letters to \n John Norton asking him to keep them\n informed regarding events in \n England and Acts of \n Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n \u0026 July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n (September 27,1777); \n John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n France and the \n United States (February 5, 1778); the\n birth of Colonel \n George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n of \n Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n regarding the loyalty of \n John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n relating that \n John Baylor supported the actions of\n the Americans at \n Lexington, and returned to \n England only to marry (October 13,\n 1779); the statement of \n George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n Lexington, and his recommendation of\n Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n American Army, and concluding with the\n explanation that \n John Baylor did not fight due to a\n physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n John Wormeley requests \n John Baylor to use his influence to\n give him an escort to visit his father in \n Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n request for \n George Baylor to help recover money\n form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n (September 3, 1783).\n Other subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n 1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n 6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026 February 5, 1790); iron and\n forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026 April 13, 1774);\n horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n 1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n Mississippi River and \n Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).\n Several letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n September 14, 1771; \u0026 June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n visit of slaves with the family in \n Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n 1813); the prices of slaves in the \n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory and prices of\n hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n George Boone, of \n Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n to verify that \n James Martin, a black man who claimed\n to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n of Colonel \n John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n free black and not legally owned by \n Thomas Adams of \n Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n 1818).\n There is a group of letters between \n John Baylor, \n John Frere, and \n John Baylor's former teacher in \n England, \n William Bond, concerning education for\n his two sons, \n John Baylor and \n George Daniel Baylor. This\n correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n and includes: a discussion of \n Eton and \n Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n suggestion to try \n Glasgow in \n Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n secure a tutor from \n England and his opinion of \n Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n 22, 1799 \u0026 June 30, 1800).\n Other subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n description of \n Warm Springs, \n Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n 1805); the career of \n Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026 July\n 17, 1800); the settlement of \n John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n 1801; \u0026 January 3, 1804); the \n Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n 1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n economic life in \n Pearl River, \n Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n 1816); the financial difficulties of the \n Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026\n July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n celebration in \n Richmond of the French victory over the\n Turkish Dey of \n Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n medical studies of \n John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n discussion of \n George Catlin's book about American\n Indians and the explorations of \n John C. Fremont and \n Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n detailed description of \n William P. Palmer's trip to \n Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n E. Lanc[aster] to \n Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).\n Events during the Civil War period are represented by\n the following: \n William P. Palmer's comments\n concerning \n John Brown's raid at \n Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n his hanging (November 22 \u0026 December 1, 1859); the\n struggle for possession of the \n Fredericksburg Water Power\n Company (March 17 \u0026 November 3, 1863; \u0026\n September 5, 1865); the building of \n Confederate stables and cabins for a\n camp in \n Louisa near the gold mines of \n Louisa County's \n Walnut Grove and \n Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n the assassination of \n Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n 1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n Robert E. Lee at \n White Sulpher Springs, West\n Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n healed (n.d.).\n Other post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n (August 11, 1878) and the \n Richmond riots during which a white\n policeman was killed in \n Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026\n July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n the black vote during Reconstruction in \n Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n Micajah Woods, the \n University of Virginia, and \n Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026 May 20, 1881).\n Letters containing genealogical information include the\n following families: the \n Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026 n.d.);\n the \n Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026 January\n 8, 1885); the \n Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n the \n Texas \n Baylor family (April 28 \u0026 May 2,\n 1894).\n For a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n the \n Baylor family sliplist.\n The next series of papers contain the legal and\n financial papers of the \n Baylor family. These include: the\n amnesty papers of Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n surveys (1701-1841) of \n Virginia lands in \n King William County, \n King and Queen County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Caroline County, \n Pocahontas County, and \n Orange County, many of which were done\n by surveyor, \n James Taylor; and other legal\n documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n of land grants signed by \n Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n of named slaves sold to \n John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n charges against \n Philip Easter, overseer for \n John Baylor, particularly for\n \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n of \n John Hatley Norton to buy \n John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n 1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n agreement concerning a grist mill in \n Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n pardon of \n John Crowley signed by \n James Madison and \n James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n concerning a mill with \n P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n certificate of exemption from active service in the \n Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n work done on a gravel pit for the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac\n Railroad (June 2, 1870).\n This series also contains copies of the wills of \n John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n 19, 1770, and \n Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n 12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.\n The financial papers of the \n Baylor family contain six small account\n books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n which contains the \n Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n statements; a farm book for the \n Greenwood Farm; \n John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n 1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n miscellaneous financial papers.\n Topics in the financial papers include the following: an\n account with \n Donald Robertson for \n Robert Baylor and \n Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n 1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026 August 1782, October\n 2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026 December 11,\n 1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n 11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n house work [1726]; an account with the \n Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n settling of \n John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n 10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n from \n John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).\n There are also accounts with the \n Confederate government (November 14\n \u0026 24, \u0026 December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026 May 3,\n 1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n slavery.\n These include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n for payment for capturing and placing \n John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n sale of \n George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n 1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n hire of \" \n Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n 23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n 1847); \n Mary and daughter \n Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n Miles (February 20, 1849); \n Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n Frank (January 15, 1851); \n Kitty Brook and \n Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026 ca. 1854).\n The miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n journey from \" \n Newmarket \" to \n Warm Springs, \n Augusta County, Virginia, and\n mentioning Dr. \n [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n Thomas Walker, of \n Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n John Baylor's \n Orange plantations; genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Roy family, \n Baylor family, and \n Norton family, and including\n biographical sketches of \n Mungo Roy and \n John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n compositions by \n Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n book of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n Portsmouth, [England] (1778).\n Other material in this series includes military papers,\n miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n Caroline militia, who served under\n Colonel \n George Washington in the construction\n of a fort at \n Winchester, Virginia, during the\n French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.\n The rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n War material, relating to \n George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n Commander of the \n Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n mention of \n George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n (February 4, 1778); \n B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n to \n James Hunter with an itemized account\n (October 12 \u0026 November 1, 1779); the problems and\n arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n 4, June 6 \u0026 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n 1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026 August\n 14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n outbreak of smallpox in the \n Third Regiment at \n Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n 1781); and an order for a review of the \n Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n 4th Regiment of \n Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n please consult the original list in the control folder.\n The miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n books, probably from the library of \n John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n Clark Expedition,\" by \n Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n Emmanuel Church, \n Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).\n The newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n University of Virginia events, news of\n the \n Ivy area, the \n Lewis Association of America, the \n Lewis family, and historical\n articles.\n The loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n Rosa Rutherford, \n Charles Frere and \n Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n \" \n Newmarket, \" and \n University of Virginia professors.\n The notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n Maria Roy Baylor, \n Frank Blackford, and \n James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n Letters of Junius,hand\n copied by \n John Baylor (1769-1771).\n Those volumes belonging to Dr. \n John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n expense book which records a controversy with the \n Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n and another farm book with an account with the \n Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).\n The photograph album, apparently given to \n John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026\n n.d.); \n Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n James B. Baylor; \n Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n Mirador, \" \n Albemarle County (1886); \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n mother of \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n Colonel \n George Armistead; \n Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n Lewis Armistead (killed at \n Gettysburg ); \n Maria Roy Baylor; \n Eloise Baylor (1885); \n Julia Howard Baylor; and \n John Roy Baylor.\n The series containing the papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey consists of the financial records of the\n survey teams led by \n John Baylor, circular letters from the\n home office in \n Washington, D.C., the official\n correspondence and reports of \n John Baylor, photographs, printed\n material, \n United States government property\n inventories, and bound volumes.\n \n James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n graduated with an engineering degree from the \n University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n appointed an aid in the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n Canada to \n Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n in \n Louisiana and \n Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n as a Commissioner of the \n United States Supreme Court to settle\n the \n Virginia - \n Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n establishment of boundaries between \n Virginia and \n Maryland, \n New York and \n Pennsylvania, and the \n United States and \n Canada.\n The Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n much correspondence from \n William Ellinger of \n Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n death notices for \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey men, \n Richard D. Cutts and \n Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026 1883), and\n three pamphlets concerning the \n United States and Canadian boundary,\n the oyster laws of \n Virginia, and a \n Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n address by \n Edward Hutson Russell.\n Oversize items include a survey of the lands of \n John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n photographs of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n the \n Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n Richmond, 1854.\n The three \n Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n addendum).","The papers of the \n Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n 2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n 1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.","These papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.","John Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n England, at the \n Putney Grammer School and \n Caius College, \n Cambridge. While in \n England, he developed a keen interest\n in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n name his new home, \" \n Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n the development of American thoroughbreds. \n John Baylor also rendered public\n service to the newly formed county of \n Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.","All four of the sons of \n John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n War. \n John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n live in \n Europe until they could obtain a return\n passage to \n America.","George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n of the \n Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n 1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n General \n George Washington. He was commanding\n officer of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n the \n First Continental Dragoons on November\n 9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n Brigadier General.","Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n and captain of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n Revolution. He along with his other brother \n Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n Revolution, immigrated to \n Kentucky. Later \n Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory.","The estate of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n a member of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey team.","The correspondence series contains the correspondence\n from family members, friends, and business associates of\n all the above generations of the \n Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n pertaining to the sojourn of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n England prior to and during the\n Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n Colonel \n John Baylor's son at school in \n Caius College, \n Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n intentions of returning to the \n United States (December 28, 1770); the\n advice of \n William Bond, a former teacher of \n John Baylor, for him to seek further\n educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n William Bond's request for \n John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n and to visit \n England (May 4, 1778); \n John Baylor's trip to \n England to wed his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n the Baylor's leaving \n England, and comments concerning the\n fashions and decadence of \n England (May 4, 1779).","Correspondence concerning events leading up to and\n including the Revolutionary War includes: \n Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n London to \n John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n Grand's letter refusing to advise \n John Baylor due to threat of prison\n (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n Committee of Correspondence letters to \n John Norton asking him to keep them\n informed regarding events in \n England and Acts of \n Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n \u0026 July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n (September 27,1777); \n John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n France and the \n United States (February 5, 1778); the\n birth of Colonel \n George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n of \n Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n regarding the loyalty of \n John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n relating that \n John Baylor supported the actions of\n the Americans at \n Lexington, and returned to \n England only to marry (October 13,\n 1779); the statement of \n George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n Lexington, and his recommendation of\n Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n American Army, and concluding with the\n explanation that \n John Baylor did not fight due to a\n physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n John Wormeley requests \n John Baylor to use his influence to\n give him an escort to visit his father in \n Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n request for \n George Baylor to help recover money\n form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n (September 3, 1783).","Other subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n 1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n 6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026 February 5, 1790); iron and\n forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026 April 13, 1774);\n horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n 1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n Mississippi River and \n Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).","Several letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n September 14, 1771; \u0026 June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n visit of slaves with the family in \n Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n 1813); the prices of slaves in the \n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory and prices of\n hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n George Boone, of \n Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n to verify that \n James Martin, a black man who claimed\n to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n of Colonel \n John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n free black and not legally owned by \n Thomas Adams of \n Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n 1818).","There is a group of letters between \n John Baylor, \n John Frere, and \n John Baylor's former teacher in \n England, \n William Bond, concerning education for\n his two sons, \n John Baylor and \n George Daniel Baylor. This\n correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n and includes: a discussion of \n Eton and \n Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n suggestion to try \n Glasgow in \n Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n secure a tutor from \n England and his opinion of \n Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n 22, 1799 \u0026 June 30, 1800).","Other subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n description of \n Warm Springs, \n Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n 1805); the career of \n Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026 July\n 17, 1800); the settlement of \n John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n 1801; \u0026 January 3, 1804); the \n Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n 1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n economic life in \n Pearl River, \n Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n 1816); the financial difficulties of the \n Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026\n July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n celebration in \n Richmond of the French victory over the\n Turkish Dey of \n Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n medical studies of \n John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n discussion of \n George Catlin's book about American\n Indians and the explorations of \n John C. Fremont and \n Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n detailed description of \n William P. Palmer's trip to \n Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n E. Lanc[aster] to \n Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).","Events during the Civil War period are represented by\n the following: \n William P. Palmer's comments\n concerning \n John Brown's raid at \n Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n his hanging (November 22 \u0026 December 1, 1859); the\n struggle for possession of the \n Fredericksburg Water Power\n Company (March 17 \u0026 November 3, 1863; \u0026\n September 5, 1865); the building of \n Confederate stables and cabins for a\n camp in \n Louisa near the gold mines of \n Louisa County's \n Walnut Grove and \n Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n the assassination of \n Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n 1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n Robert E. Lee at \n White Sulpher Springs, West\n Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n healed (n.d.).","Other post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n (August 11, 1878) and the \n Richmond riots during which a white\n policeman was killed in \n Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026\n July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n the black vote during Reconstruction in \n Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n Micajah Woods, the \n University of Virginia, and \n Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026 May 20, 1881).","Letters containing genealogical information include the\n following families: the \n Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026 n.d.);\n the \n Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026 January\n 8, 1885); the \n Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n the \n Texas \n Baylor family (April 28 \u0026 May 2,\n 1894).","For a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n the \n Baylor family sliplist.","The next series of papers contain the legal and\n financial papers of the \n Baylor family. These include: the\n amnesty papers of Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n surveys (1701-1841) of \n Virginia lands in \n King William County, \n King and Queen County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Caroline County, \n Pocahontas County, and \n Orange County, many of which were done\n by surveyor, \n James Taylor; and other legal\n documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n of land grants signed by \n Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n of named slaves sold to \n John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n charges against \n Philip Easter, overseer for \n John Baylor, particularly for\n \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n of \n John Hatley Norton to buy \n John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n 1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n agreement concerning a grist mill in \n Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n pardon of \n John Crowley signed by \n James Madison and \n James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n concerning a mill with \n P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n certificate of exemption from active service in the \n Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n work done on a gravel pit for the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac\n Railroad (June 2, 1870).","This series also contains copies of the wills of \n John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n 19, 1770, and \n Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n 12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.","The financial papers of the \n Baylor family contain six small account\n books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n which contains the \n Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n statements; a farm book for the \n Greenwood Farm; \n John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n 1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n miscellaneous financial papers.","Topics in the financial papers include the following: an\n account with \n Donald Robertson for \n Robert Baylor and \n Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n 1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026 August 1782, October\n 2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026 December 11,\n 1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n 11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n house work [1726]; an account with the \n Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n settling of \n John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n 10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n from \n John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).","There are also accounts with the \n Confederate government (November 14\n \u0026 24, \u0026 December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026 May 3,\n 1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n slavery.","These include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n for payment for capturing and placing \n John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n sale of \n George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n 1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n hire of \" \n Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n 23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n 1847); \n Mary and daughter \n Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n Miles (February 20, 1849); \n Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n Frank (January 15, 1851); \n Kitty Brook and \n Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026 ca. 1854).","The miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n journey from \" \n Newmarket \" to \n Warm Springs, \n Augusta County, Virginia, and\n mentioning Dr. \n [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n Thomas Walker, of \n Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n John Baylor's \n Orange plantations; genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Roy family, \n Baylor family, and \n Norton family, and including\n biographical sketches of \n Mungo Roy and \n John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n compositions by \n Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n book of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n Portsmouth, [England] (1778).","Other material in this series includes military papers,\n miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n Caroline militia, who served under\n Colonel \n George Washington in the construction\n of a fort at \n Winchester, Virginia, during the\n French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.","The rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n War material, relating to \n George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n Commander of the \n Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n mention of \n George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n (February 4, 1778); \n B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n to \n James Hunter with an itemized account\n (October 12 \u0026 November 1, 1779); the problems and\n arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n 4, June 6 \u0026 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n 1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026 August\n 14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n outbreak of smallpox in the \n Third Regiment at \n Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n 1781); and an order for a review of the \n Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n 4th Regiment of \n Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n please consult the original list in the control folder.","The miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n books, probably from the library of \n John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n Clark Expedition,\" by \n Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n Emmanuel Church, \n Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).","The newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n University of Virginia events, news of\n the \n Ivy area, the \n Lewis Association of America, the \n Lewis family, and historical\n articles.","The loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n Rosa Rutherford, \n Charles Frere and \n Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n \" \n Newmarket, \" and \n University of Virginia professors.","The notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n Maria Roy Baylor, \n Frank Blackford, and \n James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n Letters of Junius,hand\n copied by \n John Baylor (1769-1771).","Those volumes belonging to Dr. \n John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n expense book which records a controversy with the \n Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n and another farm book with an account with the \n Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).","The photograph album, apparently given to \n John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026\n n.d.); \n Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n James B. Baylor; \n Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n Mirador, \" \n Albemarle County (1886); \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n mother of \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n Colonel \n George Armistead; \n Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n Lewis Armistead (killed at \n Gettysburg ); \n Maria Roy Baylor; \n Eloise Baylor (1885); \n Julia Howard Baylor; and \n John Roy Baylor.","The series containing the papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey consists of the financial records of the\n survey teams led by \n John Baylor, circular letters from the\n home office in \n Washington, D.C., the official\n correspondence and reports of \n John Baylor, photographs, printed\n material, \n United States government property\n inventories, and bound volumes.","James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n graduated with an engineering degree from the \n University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n appointed an aid in the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n Canada to \n Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n in \n Louisiana and \n Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n as a Commissioner of the \n United States Supreme Court to settle\n the \n Virginia - \n Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n establishment of boundaries between \n Virginia and \n Maryland, \n New York and \n Pennsylvania, and the \n United States and \n Canada.","The Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n much correspondence from \n William Ellinger of \n Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n death notices for \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey men, \n Richard D. Cutts and \n Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026 1883), and\n three pamphlets concerning the \n United States and Canadian boundary,\n the oyster laws of \n Virginia, and a \n Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n address by \n Edward Hutson Russell.","Oversize items include a survey of the lands of \n John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n photographs of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n the \n Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n Richmond, 1854.","The three \n Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n addendum).","ADDENDUM RE THE BAYLOR LEDGERS\n The three \n Baylor family ledgers contain many\n references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n Callabar, \" and \" \n Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n volumes.\n References to slavery occurring in volume one include\n the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n 39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n 101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026 175. References\n to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n 63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026 207.\n Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n 146, 148, 152-153, \u0026 155.\n Occasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n volume and page number, are listed below.\n \n Ann \u0026 Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026\n 155\n \n Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n \u0026 167; \u0026 2.50\n \n Betty 1.94\n \n Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026 98; \u0026\n 2.96, 111, 136\n \n Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026\n 96; \u0026 2.4, 54, \u0026 97\n \n Hunter 1.68\n \n Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026 75;\n \u0026 2.116 \u0026 136\n \n Little York 2.124\n \n Lucy 1.94 \u0026 149\n \n Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n 145, 158, 180, \u0026 185\n \n Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026\n 75\n \n Parnel Galley 2.22\n \n Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026\n 162-164\n \n Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026 2.90\n Other entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n \u0026 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n Germana mines 2.188; \n John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026 131;\n quitrents for land in \n Caroline County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Orange County, and \n King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026 79;\n and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026 149.\n Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n contracts of \n John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n sold off \n W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n 1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n 1744.","The three \n Baylor family ledgers contain many\n references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n Callabar, \" and \" \n Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n volumes.","References to slavery occurring in volume one include\n the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n 39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n 101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026 175. References\n to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n 63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026 207.\n Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n 146, 148, 152-153, \u0026 155.","Occasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n volume and page number, are listed below.","Ann \u0026 Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026\n 155","Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n \u0026 167; \u0026 2.50","Betty 1.94","Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026 98; \u0026\n 2.96, 111, 136","Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026\n 96; \u0026 2.4, 54, \u0026 97","Hunter 1.68","Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026 75;\n \u0026 2.116 \u0026 136","Little York 2.124","Lucy 1.94 \u0026 149","Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n 145, 158, 180, \u0026 185","Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026\n 75","Parnel Galley 2.22","Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026\n 162-164","Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026 2.90","Other entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n \u0026 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n Germana mines 2.188; \n John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026 131;\n quitrents for land in \n Caroline County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Orange County, and \n King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026 79;\n and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026 149.\n Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n contracts of \n John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n sold off \n W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n 1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n 1744.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"collection_ssim":["Baylor Family Papers \n 1653-1915"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["2257"],"unitid_tesim":["2257"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["John Baylor and \n James Baylor Blackford"],"creator_ssim":["John Baylor and \n James Baylor Blackford"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was loaned to the Library by \n John Baylor of Baltimore, Maryland, and \n James Baylor Blackford of Richmond, Virginia, on \n April 12, 1946, and was made a gift on \n August 31, 1954."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2000 items"],"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 \n Baylor Family Papers have been arranged in\n the following six series:\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eI. Correspondence (Box 1)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eII. Legal and Financial Papers (Boxes 2-3)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIII. Miscellaneous Papers (Box 4)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIV. Notebooks and Bound Volumes (Boxes 5-7)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eV. Papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast \u0026amp; Geodetic\n Survey (Boxes 8-11)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eVI. Oversize Items \u0026amp; 2M Volumes\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["The \n Baylor Family Papers have been arranged in\n the following six series:","I. Correspondence (Box 1)","II. Legal and Financial Papers (Boxes 2-3)","III. Miscellaneous Papers (Box 4)","IV. Notebooks and Bound Volumes (Boxes 5-7)","V. Papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast \u0026 Geodetic\n Survey (Boxes 8-11)","VI. Oversize Items \u0026 2M Volumes"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n John Baylor 1 ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1650\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1720\u003c/date\u003e) resident of \n Gloucester County, Virginia, and later \n King and Queen County, Virginia, married \n Lucy Todd O'Brien (ca.1681-?) of \n New Kent County, Virginia, in \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1698\u003c/date\u003e. They were believed to have had three\n offspring, \n Frances Baylor, \n Robert Baylor, and \n John Baylor 2. The children of their son,\n Colonel \n John2 Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1705\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1772\u003c/date\u003e), and \n Frances Walker (?- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1783\u003c/date\u003e) were as follows:\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e1) \n Courtney Baylor m. Jasper Clayton of \n Gloucester County \n \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e2) \n Lucy Baylor m. \n John Armistead \n \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e3) \n Frances Baylor m. \n John Nicholson \n \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e4) \n Elizabeth Baylor unmarried\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e5) \n John Baylor 3 ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1750\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1808\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n Frances Norton ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1760\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1815\u003c/date\u003e) in \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1778\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e6) \n George Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1752\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1784\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n Lucy Page in \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1778\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e7) \n Walker Baylor ( ? - \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1823\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n Jane Bledsoe \n \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e8) \n Robert Baylor m. Miss Gwynne\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe children of \n John Baylor 3 and \n Frances Norton were:\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e1) \n Frances Courtney Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1779\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1780\u003c/date\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e2) \n Courtney Orange Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1781\u003c/date\u003e-? ) m. _____ Fox\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e3) \n Lucy Elizabeth Todd Baylor ( ? - \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1823\u003c/date\u003e) m. [Sen. \n John H. Upshaw ] in \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1809\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e4) \n Louisa Henrietta Baylor m. [ \n William T. Upshaw ]\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e5) \n Susanna Frances Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1783\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1837\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n John Sutton \n \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e6) \n John Baylor 4 m. \n Maria Ann Roy ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1790\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1850\u003c/date\u003e) in \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1819\u003c/date\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e7) Dr. \n George Daniel Baylor m. Miss Lewis\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe issue of \n John Baylor 4 and \n Maria Ann Roy was Dr. \n John Roy Baylor \n \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n John Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1821\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1897\u003c/date\u003e) who married \n Anne Bowen of \n Albemarle County and produced the\n following offspring:\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e1) Captain \n James Bowen Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1849\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1924\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n Ellen Carter Bruce (died ca. \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1899\u003c/date\u003e) in ca. \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1881\u003c/date\u003e, producing three children: \n Evelyn Courtney Blackford Baylor, \n Anne Baylor, and \n John Baylor ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1890\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1968\u003c/date\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e2) \n Maria Roy Baylor \n \u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e3) \n John Roy Baylor, Jr. ( \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1851\u003c/date\u003e- \n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1926\u003c/date\u003e) m. \n Julia Howard \n \u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Baylor 1 ( \n 1650- \n 1720) resident of \n Gloucester County, Virginia, and later \n King and Queen County, Virginia, married \n Lucy Todd O'Brien (ca.1681-?) of \n New Kent County, Virginia, in \n 1698. They were believed to have had three\n offspring, \n Frances Baylor, \n Robert Baylor, and \n John Baylor 2. The children of their son,\n Colonel \n John2 Baylor ( \n 1705- \n 1772), and \n Frances Walker (?- \n 1783) were as follows:","1) \n Courtney Baylor m. Jasper Clayton of \n Gloucester County","2) \n Lucy Baylor m. \n John Armistead","3) \n Frances Baylor m. \n John Nicholson","4) \n Elizabeth Baylor unmarried","5) \n John Baylor 3 ( \n 1750- \n 1808) m. \n Frances Norton ( \n 1760- \n 1815) in \n 1778","6) \n George Baylor ( \n 1752- \n 1784) m. \n Lucy Page in \n 1778","7) \n Walker Baylor ( ? - \n 1823) m. \n Jane Bledsoe","8) \n Robert Baylor m. Miss Gwynne","The children of \n John Baylor 3 and \n Frances Norton were:","1) \n Frances Courtney Baylor ( \n 1779- \n 1780)","2) \n Courtney Orange Baylor ( \n 1781-? ) m. _____ Fox","3) \n Lucy Elizabeth Todd Baylor ( ? - \n 1823) m. [Sen. \n John H. Upshaw ] in \n 1809","4) \n Louisa Henrietta Baylor m. [ \n William T. Upshaw ]","5) \n Susanna Frances Baylor ( \n 1783- \n 1837) m. \n John Sutton","6) \n John Baylor 4 m. \n Maria Ann Roy ( \n 1790- \n 1850) in \n 1819","7) Dr. \n George Daniel Baylor m. Miss Lewis","The issue of \n John Baylor 4 and \n Maria Ann Roy was Dr. \n John Roy Baylor","John Baylor ( \n 1821- \n 1897) who married \n Anne Bowen of \n Albemarle County and produced the\n following offspring:","1) Captain \n James Bowen Baylor ( \n 1849- \n 1924) m. \n Ellen Carter Bruce (died ca. \n 1899) in ca. \n 1881, producing three children: \n Evelyn Courtney Blackford Baylor, \n Anne Baylor, and \n John Baylor ( \n 1890- \n 1968).","2) \n Maria Roy Baylor","3) \n John Roy Baylor, Jr. ( \n 1851- \n 1926) m. \n Julia Howard"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers of the Baylor Family, Accession #2257, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Papers of the Baylor Family, Accession #2257, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content","ADDENDUM RE THE BAYLOR LEDGERS"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Scope and Content\n The papers of the \n Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n 2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n 1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.\n These papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.\n John Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n England, at the \n Putney Grammer School and \n Caius College, \n Cambridge. While in \n England, he developed a keen interest\n in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n name his new home, \" \n Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n the development of American thoroughbreds. \n John Baylor also rendered public\n service to the newly formed county of \n Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.\n All four of the sons of \n John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n War. \n John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n live in \n Europe until they could obtain a return\n passage to \n America.\n \n George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n of the \n Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n 1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n General \n George Washington. He was commanding\n officer of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n the \n First Continental Dragoons on November\n 9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n Brigadier General.\n \n Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n and captain of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n Revolution. He along with his other brother \n Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n Revolution, immigrated to \n Kentucky. Later \n Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory.\n The estate of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n a member of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey team.\n The correspondence series contains the correspondence\n from family members, friends, and business associates of\n all the above generations of the \n Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n pertaining to the sojourn of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n England prior to and during the\n Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n Colonel \n John Baylor's son at school in \n Caius College, \n Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n intentions of returning to the \n United States (December 28, 1770); the\n advice of \n William Bond, a former teacher of \n John Baylor, for him to seek further\n educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n William Bond's request for \n John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n and to visit \n England (May 4, 1778); \n John Baylor's trip to \n England to wed his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n the Baylor's leaving \n England, and comments concerning the\n fashions and decadence of \n England (May 4, 1779).\n Correspondence concerning events leading up to and\n including the Revolutionary War includes: \n Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n London to \n John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n Grand's letter refusing to advise \n John Baylor due to threat of prison\n (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n Committee of Correspondence letters to \n John Norton asking him to keep them\n informed regarding events in \n England and Acts of \n Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n \u0026 July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n (September 27,1777); \n John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n France and the \n United States (February 5, 1778); the\n birth of Colonel \n George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n of \n Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n regarding the loyalty of \n John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n relating that \n John Baylor supported the actions of\n the Americans at \n Lexington, and returned to \n England only to marry (October 13,\n 1779); the statement of \n George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n Lexington, and his recommendation of\n Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n American Army, and concluding with the\n explanation that \n John Baylor did not fight due to a\n physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n John Wormeley requests \n John Baylor to use his influence to\n give him an escort to visit his father in \n Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n request for \n George Baylor to help recover money\n form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n (September 3, 1783).\n Other subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n 1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n 6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026 February 5, 1790); iron and\n forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026 April 13, 1774);\n horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n 1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n Mississippi River and \n Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).\n Several letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n September 14, 1771; \u0026 June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n visit of slaves with the family in \n Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n 1813); the prices of slaves in the \n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory and prices of\n hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n George Boone, of \n Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n to verify that \n James Martin, a black man who claimed\n to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n of Colonel \n John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n free black and not legally owned by \n Thomas Adams of \n Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n 1818).\n There is a group of letters between \n John Baylor, \n John Frere, and \n John Baylor's former teacher in \n England, \n William Bond, concerning education for\n his two sons, \n John Baylor and \n George Daniel Baylor. This\n correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n and includes: a discussion of \n Eton and \n Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n suggestion to try \n Glasgow in \n Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n secure a tutor from \n England and his opinion of \n Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n 22, 1799 \u0026 June 30, 1800).\n Other subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n description of \n Warm Springs, \n Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n 1805); the career of \n Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026 July\n 17, 1800); the settlement of \n John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n 1801; \u0026 January 3, 1804); the \n Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n 1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n economic life in \n Pearl River, \n Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n 1816); the financial difficulties of the \n Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026\n July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n celebration in \n Richmond of the French victory over the\n Turkish Dey of \n Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n medical studies of \n John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n discussion of \n George Catlin's book about American\n Indians and the explorations of \n John C. Fremont and \n Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n detailed description of \n William P. Palmer's trip to \n Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n E. Lanc[aster] to \n Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).\n Events during the Civil War period are represented by\n the following: \n William P. Palmer's comments\n concerning \n John Brown's raid at \n Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n his hanging (November 22 \u0026 December 1, 1859); the\n struggle for possession of the \n Fredericksburg Water Power\n Company (March 17 \u0026 November 3, 1863; \u0026\n September 5, 1865); the building of \n Confederate stables and cabins for a\n camp in \n Louisa near the gold mines of \n Louisa County's \n Walnut Grove and \n Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n the assassination of \n Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n 1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n Robert E. Lee at \n White Sulpher Springs, West\n Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n healed (n.d.).\n Other post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n (August 11, 1878) and the \n Richmond riots during which a white\n policeman was killed in \n Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026\n July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n the black vote during Reconstruction in \n Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n Micajah Woods, the \n University of Virginia, and \n Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026 May 20, 1881).\n Letters containing genealogical information include the\n following families: the \n Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026 n.d.);\n the \n Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026 January\n 8, 1885); the \n Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n the \n Texas \n Baylor family (April 28 \u0026 May 2,\n 1894).\n For a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n the \n Baylor family sliplist.\n The next series of papers contain the legal and\n financial papers of the \n Baylor family. These include: the\n amnesty papers of Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n surveys (1701-1841) of \n Virginia lands in \n King William County, \n King and Queen County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Caroline County, \n Pocahontas County, and \n Orange County, many of which were done\n by surveyor, \n James Taylor; and other legal\n documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n of land grants signed by \n Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n of named slaves sold to \n John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n charges against \n Philip Easter, overseer for \n John Baylor, particularly for\n \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n of \n John Hatley Norton to buy \n John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n 1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n agreement concerning a grist mill in \n Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n pardon of \n John Crowley signed by \n James Madison and \n James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n concerning a mill with \n P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n certificate of exemption from active service in the \n Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n work done on a gravel pit for the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac\n Railroad (June 2, 1870).\n This series also contains copies of the wills of \n John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n 19, 1770, and \n Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n 12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.\n The financial papers of the \n Baylor family contain six small account\n books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n which contains the \n Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n statements; a farm book for the \n Greenwood Farm; \n John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n 1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n miscellaneous financial papers.\n Topics in the financial papers include the following: an\n account with \n Donald Robertson for \n Robert Baylor and \n Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n 1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026 August 1782, October\n 2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026 December 11,\n 1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n 11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n house work [1726]; an account with the \n Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n settling of \n John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n 10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n from \n John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).\n There are also accounts with the \n Confederate government (November 14\n \u0026 24, \u0026 December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026 May 3,\n 1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n slavery.\n These include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n for payment for capturing and placing \n John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n sale of \n George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n 1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n hire of \" \n Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n 23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n 1847); \n Mary and daughter \n Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n Miles (February 20, 1849); \n Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n Frank (January 15, 1851); \n Kitty Brook and \n Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026 ca. 1854).\n The miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n journey from \" \n Newmarket \" to \n Warm Springs, \n Augusta County, Virginia, and\n mentioning Dr. \n [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n Thomas Walker, of \n Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n John Baylor's \n Orange plantations; genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Roy family, \n Baylor family, and \n Norton family, and including\n biographical sketches of \n Mungo Roy and \n John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n compositions by \n Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n book of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n Portsmouth, [England] (1778).\n Other material in this series includes military papers,\n miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n Caroline militia, who served under\n Colonel \n George Washington in the construction\n of a fort at \n Winchester, Virginia, during the\n French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.\n The rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n War material, relating to \n George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n Commander of the \n Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n mention of \n George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n (February 4, 1778); \n B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n to \n James Hunter with an itemized account\n (October 12 \u0026 November 1, 1779); the problems and\n arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n 4, June 6 \u0026 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n 1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026 August\n 14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n outbreak of smallpox in the \n Third Regiment at \n Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n 1781); and an order for a review of the \n Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n 4th Regiment of \n Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n please consult the original list in the control folder.\n The miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n books, probably from the library of \n John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n Clark Expedition,\" by \n Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n Emmanuel Church, \n Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).\n The newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n University of Virginia events, news of\n the \n Ivy area, the \n Lewis Association of America, the \n Lewis family, and historical\n articles.\n The loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n Rosa Rutherford, \n Charles Frere and \n Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n \" \n Newmarket, \" and \n University of Virginia professors.\n The notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n Maria Roy Baylor, \n Frank Blackford, and \n James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n Letters of Junius,hand\n copied by \n John Baylor (1769-1771).\n Those volumes belonging to Dr. \n John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n expense book which records a controversy with the \n Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n and another farm book with an account with the \n Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).\n The photograph album, apparently given to \n John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026\n n.d.); \n Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n James B. Baylor; \n Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n Mirador, \" \n Albemarle County (1886); \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n mother of \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n Colonel \n George Armistead; \n Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n Lewis Armistead (killed at \n Gettysburg ); \n Maria Roy Baylor; \n Eloise Baylor (1885); \n Julia Howard Baylor; and \n John Roy Baylor.\n The series containing the papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey consists of the financial records of the\n survey teams led by \n John Baylor, circular letters from the\n home office in \n Washington, D.C., the official\n correspondence and reports of \n John Baylor, photographs, printed\n material, \n United States government property\n inventories, and bound volumes.\n \n James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n graduated with an engineering degree from the \n University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n appointed an aid in the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n Canada to \n Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n in \n Louisiana and \n Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n as a Commissioner of the \n United States Supreme Court to settle\n the \n Virginia - \n Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n establishment of boundaries between \n Virginia and \n Maryland, \n New York and \n Pennsylvania, and the \n United States and \n Canada.\n The Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n much correspondence from \n William Ellinger of \n Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n death notices for \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey men, \n Richard D. Cutts and \n Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026 1883), and\n three pamphlets concerning the \n United States and Canadian boundary,\n the oyster laws of \n Virginia, and a \n Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n address by \n Edward Hutson Russell.\n Oversize items include a survey of the lands of \n John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n photographs of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n the \n Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n Richmond, 1854.\n The three \n Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n addendum).","The papers of the \n Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n 2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n 1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.","These papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.","John Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n England, at the \n Putney Grammer School and \n Caius College, \n Cambridge. While in \n England, he developed a keen interest\n in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n name his new home, \" \n Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n the development of American thoroughbreds. \n John Baylor also rendered public\n service to the newly formed county of \n Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.","All four of the sons of \n John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n War. \n John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n live in \n Europe until they could obtain a return\n passage to \n America.","George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n of the \n Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n 1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n General \n George Washington. He was commanding\n officer of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n the \n First Continental Dragoons on November\n 9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n Brigadier General.","Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n and captain of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n Revolution. He along with his other brother \n Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n Revolution, immigrated to \n Kentucky. Later \n Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory.","The estate of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n a member of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey team.","The correspondence series contains the correspondence\n from family members, friends, and business associates of\n all the above generations of the \n Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n pertaining to the sojourn of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n England prior to and during the\n Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n Colonel \n John Baylor's son at school in \n Caius College, \n Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n intentions of returning to the \n United States (December 28, 1770); the\n advice of \n William Bond, a former teacher of \n John Baylor, for him to seek further\n educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n William Bond's request for \n John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n and to visit \n England (May 4, 1778); \n John Baylor's trip to \n England to wed his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n the Baylor's leaving \n England, and comments concerning the\n fashions and decadence of \n England (May 4, 1779).","Correspondence concerning events leading up to and\n including the Revolutionary War includes: \n Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n London to \n John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n Grand's letter refusing to advise \n John Baylor due to threat of prison\n (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n Committee of Correspondence letters to \n John Norton asking him to keep them\n informed regarding events in \n England and Acts of \n Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n \u0026 July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n (September 27,1777); \n John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n France and the \n United States (February 5, 1778); the\n birth of Colonel \n George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n of \n Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n regarding the loyalty of \n John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n relating that \n John Baylor supported the actions of\n the Americans at \n Lexington, and returned to \n England only to marry (October 13,\n 1779); the statement of \n George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n Lexington, and his recommendation of\n Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n American Army, and concluding with the\n explanation that \n John Baylor did not fight due to a\n physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n John Wormeley requests \n John Baylor to use his influence to\n give him an escort to visit his father in \n Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n request for \n George Baylor to help recover money\n form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n (September 3, 1783).","Other subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n 1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n 6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026 February 5, 1790); iron and\n forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026 April 13, 1774);\n horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n 1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n Mississippi River and \n Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).","Several letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n September 14, 1771; \u0026 June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n visit of slaves with the family in \n Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n 1813); the prices of slaves in the \n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory and prices of\n hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n George Boone, of \n Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n to verify that \n James Martin, a black man who claimed\n to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n of Colonel \n John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n free black and not legally owned by \n Thomas Adams of \n Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n 1818).","There is a group of letters between \n John Baylor, \n John Frere, and \n John Baylor's former teacher in \n England, \n William Bond, concerning education for\n his two sons, \n John Baylor and \n George Daniel Baylor. This\n correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n and includes: a discussion of \n Eton and \n Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n suggestion to try \n Glasgow in \n Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n secure a tutor from \n England and his opinion of \n Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n 22, 1799 \u0026 June 30, 1800).","Other subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n description of \n Warm Springs, \n Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n 1805); the career of \n Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026 July\n 17, 1800); the settlement of \n John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n 1801; \u0026 January 3, 1804); the \n Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n 1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n economic life in \n Pearl River, \n Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n 1816); the financial difficulties of the \n Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026\n July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n celebration in \n Richmond of the French victory over the\n Turkish Dey of \n Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n medical studies of \n John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n discussion of \n George Catlin's book about American\n Indians and the explorations of \n John C. Fremont and \n Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n detailed description of \n William P. Palmer's trip to \n Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n E. Lanc[aster] to \n Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).","Events during the Civil War period are represented by\n the following: \n William P. Palmer's comments\n concerning \n John Brown's raid at \n Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n his hanging (November 22 \u0026 December 1, 1859); the\n struggle for possession of the \n Fredericksburg Water Power\n Company (March 17 \u0026 November 3, 1863; \u0026\n September 5, 1865); the building of \n Confederate stables and cabins for a\n camp in \n Louisa near the gold mines of \n Louisa County's \n Walnut Grove and \n Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n the assassination of \n Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n 1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n Robert E. Lee at \n White Sulpher Springs, West\n Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n healed (n.d.).","Other post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n (August 11, 1878) and the \n Richmond riots during which a white\n policeman was killed in \n Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026\n July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n the black vote during Reconstruction in \n Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n Micajah Woods, the \n University of Virginia, and \n Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac Railroad\n Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026 May 20, 1881).","Letters containing genealogical information include the\n following families: the \n Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026 n.d.);\n the \n Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026 January\n 8, 1885); the \n Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n the \n Texas \n Baylor family (April 28 \u0026 May 2,\n 1894).","For a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n the \n Baylor family sliplist.","The next series of papers contain the legal and\n financial papers of the \n Baylor family. These include: the\n amnesty papers of Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n surveys (1701-1841) of \n Virginia lands in \n King William County, \n King and Queen County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Caroline County, \n Pocahontas County, and \n Orange County, many of which were done\n by surveyor, \n James Taylor; and other legal\n documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n of land grants signed by \n Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n of named slaves sold to \n John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n charges against \n Philip Easter, overseer for \n John Baylor, particularly for\n \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n of \n John Hatley Norton to buy \n John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n 1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n agreement concerning a grist mill in \n Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n pardon of \n John Crowley signed by \n James Madison and \n James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n concerning a mill with \n P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n certificate of exemption from active service in the \n Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n work done on a gravel pit for the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026 Potomac\n Railroad (June 2, 1870).","This series also contains copies of the wills of \n John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n 19, 1770, and \n Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n 12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.","The financial papers of the \n Baylor family contain six small account\n books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n which contains the \n Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n statements; a farm book for the \n Greenwood Farm; \n John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n 1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n miscellaneous financial papers.","Topics in the financial papers include the following: an\n account with \n Donald Robertson for \n Robert Baylor and \n Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n 1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026 August 1782, October\n 2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026 December 11,\n 1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n 11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n house work [1726]; an account with the \n Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n settling of \n John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n 10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n from \n John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).","There are also accounts with the \n Confederate government (November 14\n \u0026 24, \u0026 December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026 May 3,\n 1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n slavery.","These include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n for payment for capturing and placing \n John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n sale of \n George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n 1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n hire of \" \n Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n 23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n 1847); \n Mary and daughter \n Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n Miles (February 20, 1849); \n Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n Frank (January 15, 1851); \n Kitty Brook and \n Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026 ca. 1854).","The miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n journey from \" \n Newmarket \" to \n Warm Springs, \n Augusta County, Virginia, and\n mentioning Dr. \n [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n Thomas Walker, of \n Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n John Baylor's \n Orange plantations; genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Roy family, \n Baylor family, and \n Norton family, and including\n biographical sketches of \n Mungo Roy and \n John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n compositions by \n Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n book of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n Portsmouth, [England] (1778).","Other material in this series includes military papers,\n miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n Caroline militia, who served under\n Colonel \n George Washington in the construction\n of a fort at \n Winchester, Virginia, during the\n French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.","The rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n War material, relating to \n George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n Commander of the \n Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n mention of \n George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n (February 4, 1778); \n B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n to \n James Hunter with an itemized account\n (October 12 \u0026 November 1, 1779); the problems and\n arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n 4, June 6 \u0026 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n 1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026 August\n 14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n outbreak of smallpox in the \n Third Regiment at \n Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n 1781); and an order for a review of the \n Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n 4th Regiment of \n Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n please consult the original list in the control folder.","The miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n books, probably from the library of \n John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n Clark Expedition,\" by \n Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n Emmanuel Church, \n Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).","The newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n University of Virginia events, news of\n the \n Ivy area, the \n Lewis Association of America, the \n Lewis family, and historical\n articles.","The loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n Rosa Rutherford, \n Charles Frere and \n Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n \" \n Newmarket, \" and \n University of Virginia professors.","The notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n Maria Roy Baylor, \n Frank Blackford, and \n James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n Letters of Junius,hand\n copied by \n John Baylor (1769-1771).","Those volumes belonging to Dr. \n John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n expense book which records a controversy with the \n Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n and another farm book with an account with the \n Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).","The photograph album, apparently given to \n John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026\n n.d.); \n Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n James B. Baylor; \n Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n Mirador, \" \n Albemarle County (1886); \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n mother of \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n Colonel \n George Armistead; \n Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n Lewis Armistead (killed at \n Gettysburg ); \n Maria Roy Baylor; \n Eloise Baylor (1885); \n Julia Howard Baylor; and \n John Roy Baylor.","The series containing the papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey consists of the financial records of the\n survey teams led by \n John Baylor, circular letters from the\n home office in \n Washington, D.C., the official\n correspondence and reports of \n John Baylor, photographs, printed\n material, \n United States government property\n inventories, and bound volumes.","James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n graduated with an engineering degree from the \n University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n appointed an aid in the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n Canada to \n Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n in \n Louisiana and \n Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n as a Commissioner of the \n United States Supreme Court to settle\n the \n Virginia - \n Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n establishment of boundaries between \n Virginia and \n Maryland, \n New York and \n Pennsylvania, and the \n United States and \n Canada.","The Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n much correspondence from \n William Ellinger of \n Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n death notices for \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey men, \n Richard D. Cutts and \n Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026 1883), and\n three pamphlets concerning the \n United States and Canadian boundary,\n the oyster laws of \n Virginia, and a \n Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n address by \n Edward Hutson Russell.","Oversize items include a survey of the lands of \n John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n photographs of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n the \n Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n Richmond, 1854.","The three \n Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n addendum).","ADDENDUM RE THE BAYLOR LEDGERS\n The three \n Baylor family ledgers contain many\n references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n Callabar, \" and \" \n Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n volumes.\n References to slavery occurring in volume one include\n the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n 39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n 101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026 175. References\n to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n 63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026 207.\n Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n 146, 148, 152-153, \u0026 155.\n Occasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n volume and page number, are listed below.\n \n Ann \u0026 Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026\n 155\n \n Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n \u0026 167; \u0026 2.50\n \n Betty 1.94\n \n Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026 98; \u0026\n 2.96, 111, 136\n \n Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026\n 96; \u0026 2.4, 54, \u0026 97\n \n Hunter 1.68\n \n Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026 75;\n \u0026 2.116 \u0026 136\n \n Little York 2.124\n \n Lucy 1.94 \u0026 149\n \n Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n 145, 158, 180, \u0026 185\n \n Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026\n 75\n \n Parnel Galley 2.22\n \n Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026\n 162-164\n \n Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026 2.90\n Other entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n \u0026 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n Germana mines 2.188; \n John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026 131;\n quitrents for land in \n Caroline County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Orange County, and \n King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026 79;\n and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026 149.\n Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n contracts of \n John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n sold off \n W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n 1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n 1744.","The three \n Baylor family ledgers contain many\n references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n Callabar, \" and \" \n Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n volumes.","References to slavery occurring in volume one include\n the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n 39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n 101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026 175. References\n to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n 63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026 207.\n Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n 146, 148, 152-153, \u0026 155.","Occasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n volume and page number, are listed below.","Ann \u0026 Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026\n 155","Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n \u0026 167; \u0026 2.50","Betty 1.94","Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026 98; \u0026\n 2.96, 111, 136","Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026\n 96; \u0026 2.4, 54, \u0026 97","Hunter 1.68","Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026 75;\n \u0026 2.116 \u0026 136","Little York 2.124","Lucy 1.94 \u0026 149","Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n 145, 158, 180, \u0026 185","Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026\n 75","Parnel Galley 2.22","Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026\n 162-164","Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026 2.90","Other entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n \u0026 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n Germana mines 2.188; \n John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026 131;\n quitrents for land in \n Caroline County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Orange County, and \n King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026 79;\n and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026 149.\n Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n contracts of \n John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n sold off \n W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n 1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n 1744."],"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."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc\u003e\u003c/physloc\u003e\n "],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":66,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:31:42.753Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eScope and Content\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe papers of the \n Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n 2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n 1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThese papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eJohn Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n England, at the \n Putney Grammer School and \n Caius College, \n Cambridge. While in \n England, he developed a keen interest\n in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n name his new home, \" \n Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n the development of American thoroughbreds. \n John Baylor also rendered public\n service to the newly formed county of \n Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAll four of the sons of \n John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n War. \n John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n live in \n Europe until they could obtain a return\n passage to \n America.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n of the \n Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n 1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n General \n George Washington. He was commanding\n officer of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n the \n First Continental Dragoons on November\n 9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n Brigadier General.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n and captain of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n Revolution. He along with his other brother \n Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n Revolution, immigrated to \n Kentucky. Later \n Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe estate of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n a member of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey team.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe correspondence series contains the correspondence\n from family members, friends, and business associates of\n all the above generations of the \n Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n pertaining to the sojourn of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n England prior to and during the\n Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n Colonel \n John Baylor's son at school in \n Caius College, \n Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n intentions of returning to the \n United States (December 28, 1770); the\n advice of \n William Bond, a former teacher of \n John Baylor, for him to seek further\n educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n William Bond's request for \n John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n and to visit \n England (May 4, 1778); \n John Baylor's trip to \n England to wed his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n the Baylor's leaving \n England, and comments concerning the\n fashions and decadence of \n England (May 4, 1779).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence concerning events leading up to and\n including the Revolutionary War includes: \n Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n London to \n John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n Grand's letter refusing to advise \n John Baylor due to threat of prison\n (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n Committee of Correspondence letters to \n John Norton asking him to keep them\n informed regarding events in \n England and Acts of \n Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n \u0026amp; July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n (September 27,1777); \n John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n France and the \n United States (February 5, 1778); the\n birth of Colonel \n George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n of \n Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n regarding the loyalty of \n John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n relating that \n John Baylor supported the actions of\n the Americans at \n Lexington, and returned to \n England only to marry (October 13,\n 1779); the statement of \n George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n Lexington, and his recommendation of\n Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n American Army, and concluding with the\n explanation that \n John Baylor did not fight due to a\n physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n John Wormeley requests \n John Baylor to use his influence to\n give him an escort to visit his father in \n Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n request for \n George Baylor to help recover money\n form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n (September 3, 1783).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOther subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n 1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n 6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026amp; February 5, 1790); iron and\n forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026amp; April 13, 1774);\n horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n 1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n Mississippi River and \n Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeveral letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n September 14, 1771; \u0026amp; June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n visit of slaves with the family in \n Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n 1813); the prices of slaves in the \n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory and prices of\n hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n George Boone, of \n Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n to verify that \n James Martin, a black man who claimed\n to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n of Colonel \n John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n free black and not legally owned by \n Thomas Adams of \n Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n 1818).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThere is a group of letters between \n John Baylor, \n John Frere, and \n John Baylor's former teacher in \n England, \n William Bond, concerning education for\n his two sons, \n John Baylor and \n George Daniel Baylor. This\n correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n and includes: a discussion of \n Eton and \n Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n suggestion to try \n Glasgow in \n Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n secure a tutor from \n England and his opinion of \n Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n 22, 1799 \u0026amp; June 30, 1800).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOther subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n description of \n Warm Springs, \n Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n 1805); the career of \n Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026amp; July\n 17, 1800); the settlement of \n John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n 1801; \u0026amp; January 3, 1804); the \n Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n 1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n economic life in \n Pearl River, \n Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n 1816); the financial difficulties of the \n Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026amp;\n July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n celebration in \n Richmond of the French victory over the\n Turkish Dey of \n Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n medical studies of \n John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n discussion of \n George Catlin's book about American\n Indians and the explorations of \n John C. Fremont and \n Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n detailed description of \n William P. Palmer's trip to \n Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n E. Lanc[aster] to \n Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eEvents during the Civil War period are represented by\n the following: \n William P. Palmer's comments\n concerning \n John Brown's raid at \n Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n his hanging (November 22 \u0026amp; December 1, 1859); the\n struggle for possession of the \n Fredericksburg Water Power\n Company (March 17 \u0026amp; November 3, 1863; \u0026amp;\n September 5, 1865); the building of \n Confederate stables and cabins for a\n camp in \n Louisa near the gold mines of \n Louisa County's \n Walnut Grove and \n Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n the assassination of \n Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n 1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n Robert E. Lee at \n White Sulpher Springs, West\n Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n healed (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOther post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n (August 11, 1878) and the \n Richmond riots during which a white\n policeman was killed in \n Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026amp;\n July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n the black vote during Reconstruction in \n Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n Micajah Woods, the \n University of Virginia, and \n Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad\n Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026amp; May 20, 1881).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eLetters containing genealogical information include the\n following families: the \n Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026amp; n.d.);\n the \n Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026amp; January\n 8, 1885); the \n Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n the \n Texas \n Baylor family (April 28 \u0026amp; May 2,\n 1894).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eFor a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n the \n Baylor family sliplist.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe next series of papers contain the legal and\n financial papers of the \n Baylor family. These include: the\n amnesty papers of Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n surveys (1701-1841) of \n Virginia lands in \n King William County, \n King and Queen County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Caroline County, \n Pocahontas County, and \n Orange County, many of which were done\n by surveyor, \n James Taylor; and other legal\n documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n of land grants signed by \n Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n of named slaves sold to \n John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n charges against \n Philip Easter, overseer for \n John Baylor, particularly for\n \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n of \n John Hatley Norton to buy \n John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n 1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n agreement concerning a grist mill in \n Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n pardon of \n John Crowley signed by \n James Madison and \n James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n concerning a mill with \n P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n certificate of exemption from active service in the \n Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n work done on a gravel pit for the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026amp; Potomac\n Railroad (June 2, 1870).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis series also contains copies of the wills of \n John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n 19, 1770, and \n Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n 12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe financial papers of the \n Baylor family contain six small account\n books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n which contains the \n Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n statements; a farm book for the \n Greenwood Farm; \n John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n 1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n miscellaneous financial papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eTopics in the financial papers include the following: an\n account with \n Donald Robertson for \n Robert Baylor and \n Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n 1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026amp; August 1782, October\n 2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026amp; December 11,\n 1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n 11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n house work [1726]; an account with the \n Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n settling of \n John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n 10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n from \n John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThere are also accounts with the \n Confederate government (November 14\n \u0026amp; 24, \u0026amp; December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026amp; May 3,\n 1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n slavery.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThese include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n for payment for capturing and placing \n John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n sale of \n George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n 1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n hire of \" \n Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n 23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n 1847); \n Mary and daughter \n Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n Miles (February 20, 1849); \n Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n Frank (January 15, 1851); \n Kitty Brook and \n Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026amp; ca. 1854).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n journey from \" \n Newmarket \" to \n Warm Springs, \n Augusta County, Virginia, and\n mentioning Dr. \n [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n Thomas Walker, of \n Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n John Baylor's \n Orange plantations; genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Roy family, \n Baylor family, and \n Norton family, and including\n biographical sketches of \n Mungo Roy and \n John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n compositions by \n Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n book of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n Portsmouth, [England] (1778).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOther material in this series includes military papers,\n miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n Caroline militia, who served under\n Colonel \n George Washington in the construction\n of a fort at \n Winchester, Virginia, during the\n French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n War material, relating to \n George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n Commander of the \n Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n mention of \n George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n (February 4, 1778); \n B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n to \n James Hunter with an itemized account\n (October 12 \u0026amp; November 1, 1779); the problems and\n arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n 4, June 6 \u0026amp; 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n 1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026amp; August\n 14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n outbreak of smallpox in the \n Third Regiment at \n Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n 1781); and an order for a review of the \n Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n 4th Regiment of \n Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n please consult the original list in the control folder.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n books, probably from the library of \n John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n Clark Expedition,\" by \n Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n Emmanuel Church, \n Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n University of Virginia events, news of\n the \n Ivy area, the \n Lewis Association of America, the \n Lewis family, and historical\n articles.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n Rosa Rutherford, \n Charles Frere and \n Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n \" \n Newmarket, \" and \n University of Virginia professors.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n Maria Roy Baylor, \n Frank Blackford, and \n James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLetters of Junius,\u003c/title\u003ehand\n copied by \n John Baylor (1769-1771).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThose volumes belonging to Dr. \n John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n expense book which records a controversy with the \n Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n and another farm book with an account with the \n Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe photograph album, apparently given to \n John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026amp;\n n.d.); \n Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n James B. Baylor; \n Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n Mirador, \" \n Albemarle County (1886); \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n mother of \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n Colonel \n George Armistead; \n Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n Lewis Armistead (killed at \n Gettysburg ); \n Maria Roy Baylor; \n Eloise Baylor (1885); \n Julia Howard Baylor; and \n John Roy Baylor.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe series containing the papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey consists of the financial records of the\n survey teams led by \n John Baylor, circular letters from the\n home office in \n Washington, D.C., the official\n correspondence and reports of \n John Baylor, photographs, printed\n material, \n United States government property\n inventories, and bound volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n graduated with an engineering degree from the \n University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n appointed an aid in the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n Canada to \n Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n in \n Louisiana and \n Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n as a Commissioner of the \n United States Supreme Court to settle\n the \n Virginia - \n Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n establishment of boundaries between \n Virginia and \n Maryland, \n New York and \n Pennsylvania, and the \n United States and \n Canada.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n much correspondence from \n William Ellinger of \n Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n death notices for \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey men, \n Richard D. Cutts and \n Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026amp; 1883), and\n three pamphlets concerning the \n United States and Canadian boundary,\n the oyster laws of \n Virginia, and a \n Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n address by \n Edward Hutson Russell.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOversize items include a survey of the lands of \n John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n photographs of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n the \n Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n Richmond, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe three \n Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n addendum).\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/scopecontent\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of the \n Baylor family of \"Newmarket,\" \n Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, contain ca.\n 2000 items (11 Hollinger boxes, 4.5 linear feet),\n 1653-1915, and consist of correspondence, legal and\n financial papers, ledgers, genealogical material, students\n notebooks and bound volumes, scrapbooks, photographs, a\n diary, literary compositions, military papers pertaining to\n the Revolutionary War, newsclippings, the records of James Bowen Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and miscellaneous papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThese papers pertain to John Baylor (1650-1720) of \n Gloucester County, and King and Queen County, Virginia, and his wife, \n Lucy Todd O'Brien of New Kent County, Virginia, and four generations of their descendants. The \n John Baylor ledgers, 1719-1755, reveal that John Baylor was a wealthy merchant,\n planter, and shipowner. He also served as a burgess, representing Gloucester County in the 1693 General Assembly and King and Queen County in 1718.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Baylor's son, John Baylor (1705-1772), greatly increased the family landholdings when he received a royal\n land grant in 1726 in what was to become Caroline County, Virginia. John Baylor was educated in \n England, at the \n Putney Grammer School and \n Caius College, \n Cambridge. While in \n England, he developed a keen interest\n in thoroughbred horses and horse racing, going so far as to\n name his new home, \" \n Newmarket, \" for the famous English\n racing center. He became an important colonial horse\n importer and breeder whose stables greatly contributed to\n the development of American thoroughbreds. \n John Baylor also rendered public\n service to the newly formed county of \n Caroline, as a colonel in the county\n militia and a burgess in 1742-1749, and 1756-1765.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAll four of the sons of \n John Baylor (1705-1772) contributed in\n some way to the American effort during the Revolutionary\n War. \n John Baylor (1750-1808), the heir of \" \n Newmarket, \" while unable to fight due\n to a childhood injury, gave financial support to the war\n effort. He later had difficulties in shedding his\n reputation as a \"Tory\" because he had gone back to \n England in 1778 to marry his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1760-1815) and had to\n live in \n Europe until they could obtain a return\n passage to \n America.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n George Baylor (1752-1784) was a member\n of the \n Caroline County Committee of Safety,\n 1775-1776, and from 1775-1777, he was aide-de-camp of\n General \n George Washington. He was commanding\n officer of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons when he was\n wounded and captured on September 28, 1778. He was\n eventually exchanged and his regiment was consolidated with\n the \n First Continental Dragoons on November\n 9, 1782, which he commanded until the end of the war. On\n September 30, 1783, he received his commission as a Brevet\n Brigadier General.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Walker Baylor served as a lieutenant\n and captain of the \n 3rd Regiment Light Dragoons during the\n Revolution. He along with his other brother \n Robert Baylor, who also served in the\n Revolution, immigrated to \n Kentucky. Later \n Robert Baylor apparently settled in the\n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe estate of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) was hopelessly\n entangled when he inherited it from his father in 1772 and\n much of it was lost through his own ineptitude as a\n businessman and the dishonesty of others. However, the\n house and two thousand acres were entailed and could not be\n alienated; these were passed on to his son, \n John Baylor ( ? ), who married \n Maria Ann Roy and produced Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1821-1897). It was Dr.\n John Roy Baylor's son, Captain \n James Bowen Baylor (1848-1924), who was\n a member of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey team.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence series contains the correspondence\n from family members, friends, and business associates of\n all the above generations of the \n Baylor family, beginning with Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772). Letters\n pertaining to the sojourn of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) in \n England prior to and during the\n Revolutionary War include the following: a reference to\n Colonel \n John Baylor's son at school in \n Caius College, \n Cambridge (August 12,1769); his\n intentions of returning to the \n United States (December 28, 1770); the\n advice of \n William Bond, a former teacher of \n John Baylor, for him to seek further\n educational opportunities upon the continent rather than to\n return to college studies (July 15, 1773); \n William Bond's request for \n John Baylor to ignore \"national evils\"\n and to visit \n England (May 4, 1778); \n John Baylor's trip to \n England to wed his cousin, \n Frances Norton (1778); a reference to\n the Baylor's leaving \n England, and comments concerning the\n fashions and decadence of \n England (May 4, 1779).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence concerning events leading up to and\n including the Revolutionary War includes: \n Sam Waterman's support of the Stamp\n Act repeal and the danger of shipping livestock from \n London to \n John Baylor (March 6, 1766); a Mr.\n Grand's letter refusing to advise \n John Baylor due to threat of prison\n (March 28, [1772]): copies of \n Committee of Correspondence letters to \n John Norton asking him to keep them\n informed regarding events in \n England and Acts of \n Parliament and his reply (April 6,\n \u0026amp; July 6, 1773); a recommendation for the Baron of\n [Bonstetten] who served in the Danish and Prussian Wars\n (September 27,1777); \n John Baylor as a prisoner aboard a\n British ship, Thomas [Thortican], possibly due to suspicion\n that he was reportedly carrying a treaty between \n France and the \n United States (February 5, 1778); the\n birth of Colonel \n George Baylor's son (May 6, 1779); \n Walker Baylor asking his brother to\n send him some money to cover his expenses incurred in\n fighting in the Revolution (August 13, 1779); a statement\n of \n Edmund Pendleton, the Chairman of the \n Caroline Committee of Correspondence,\n regarding the loyalty of \n John Baylor to the colonial cause,\n relating that \n John Baylor supported the actions of\n the Americans at \n Lexington, and returned to \n England only to marry (October 13,\n 1779); the statement of \n George Baylor regarding the loyalty of\n his brother evidenced by his opinion of events at \n Lexington, and his recommendation of\n Baron de Wolfen in the service of the \n American Army, and concluding with the\n explanation that \n John Baylor did not fight due to a\n physical infirmity acquired in his youth (October 14,1779);\n John Wormeley requests \n John Baylor to use his influence to\n give him an escort to visit his father in \n Virginia (August 16, 1782); and a\n request for \n George Baylor to help recover money\n form one of the officers of his regiment for Mr. Alexander\n (September 3, 1783).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther subjects of note include: the tobacco growing and\n export business (May 8, 1741; March 6, 1766; August 12,\n 1769; February 5, 1778; June 29, 1788; March 10, 1789; June\n 6, 1789; March 15, 1793; \u0026amp; February 5, 1790); iron and\n forge business (October 11, 1771; \u0026amp; April 13, 1774);\n horses and horse breeding (\"Sober John\"-October25, 1754;\n \"Fearnought\"-March 21, 1771; October 30, 1756; March 6,\n 1766; and July 17, 1800); and a discussion about whether\n the Spanish will allow free trade up the \n Mississippi River and \n Ohio River ([December 4], 1783).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eSeveral letters mention slaves and slavery. Among these\n are: slaves for sale (April 14, 1770; March 21, 1771;\n September 14, 1771; \u0026amp; June 19, 1811); mention of slave\n passes, a slave detained on the road for lack of one, and a\n visit of slaves with the family in \n Gloucester County, Virginia (July 12,\n 1813); the prices of slaves in the \n Pearl River area of the \n Mississippi Territory and prices of\n hire (November 28, 1816); and a letter from a Quaker, \n George Boone, of \n Berks County, Pennsylvania, attempting\n to verify that \n James Martin, a black man who claimed\n to have been born to free parents and wrongly sold as part\n of Colonel \n John Baylor's estate, was indeed a\n free black and not legally owned by \n Thomas Adams of \n Orange County, Virginia (August 12,\n 1818).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere is a group of letters between \n John Baylor, \n John Frere, and \n John Baylor's former teacher in \n England, \n William Bond, concerning education for\n his two sons, \n John Baylor and \n George Daniel Baylor. This\n correspondence sheds some light on the attempts of\n Americans to educate their sons following the Revolution\n and includes: a discussion of \n Eton and \n Rugby and changes that have occurred at\n Cambridge (August 17, 1793); a\n suggestion to try \n Glasgow in \n Scotland (March 1, 1796); the\n possibility of using a tutor (February 27, 1797); terms to\n secure a tutor from \n England and his opinion of \n Eton (October 2, 1797); and a\n suggestion to use an American clergyman for a tutor (June\n 22, 1799 \u0026amp; June 30, 1800).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther subjects mentioned include: the French Revolution\n (July 2, August 17, and [September 18], 1793); a\n description of fashions ([September 18], 1793); a\n description of \n Warm Springs, \n Bath County, Virginia (August 26,\n 1805); the career of \n Napoleon Bonaparte (June 30 \u0026amp; July\n 17, 1800); the settlement of \n John Baylor's estate (December 26,\n 1801; \u0026amp; January 3, 1804); the \n Louisiana Purchase (September 17,\n 1803); a woman's viewpoint and thoughts (April 9, 1802);\n the interdiction of His Majesty's ships from American ports\n and the War of 1812 (August 29, 1808; March 25, 1812; and\n July 18, 1813); an excellent discussion of social and\n economic life in \n Pearl River, \n Mississippi Territory (November 28,\n 1816); the financial difficulties of the \n Baylor family (September 1, 1819; \u0026amp;\n July 25, 1820); a meteorite falling in \n Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1821); the\n celebration in \n Richmond of the French victory over the\n Turkish Dey of \n Algiers (September 13, 1830); the\n medical studies of \n John Roy Baylor (January 31, 1842);\n discussion of \n George Catlin's book about American\n Indians and the explorations of \n John C. Fremont and \n Charles Wilkes (April 30, 1846); a\n detailed description of \n William P. Palmer's trip to \n Europe (October 30, 1865); and the\n voyage of Presbyterian missionary \n E. Lanc[aster] to \n Rio De Janeiro (August 26, 1869).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEvents during the Civil War period are represented by\n the following: \n William P. Palmer's comments\n concerning \n John Brown's raid at \n Harper's Ferry and the preparations for\n his hanging (November 22 \u0026amp; December 1, 1859); the\n struggle for possession of the \n Fredericksburg Water Power\n Company (March 17 \u0026amp; November 3, 1863; \u0026amp;\n September 5, 1865); the building of \n Confederate stables and cabins for a\n camp in \n Louisa near the gold mines of \n Louisa County's \n Walnut Grove and \n Slate Grove, formerly owned by Yankee\n speculators (December 30, 1863); requests for donations of\n flour and foodstuffs for soldiers (February 25, 1865); and\n the assassination of \n Abraham Lincoln deplored (April 25,\n 1865). Related topics include the mention of seeing \n Robert E. Lee at \n White Sulpher Springs, West\n Virginia (August 17, 1867) and a letter from \n Henry Stephens Randall declining to\n visit the Old Dominion until the scars of the Civil War are\n healed (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther post-Civil War subjects include: racial tensions\n (August 11, 1878) and the \n Richmond riots during which a white\n policeman was killed in \n Old Market Hall (March 20, 1870); \n John Roy Baylor's assurances that his\n black tenant farmers were not involved in the violence in \n Caroline County (n.d.); life in \n St. Louis, Missouri (September \u0026amp;\n July 3, 1873); a description of a shoot-out in \n Uvalde County, Texas (May 10, 1881);\n the black vote during Reconstruction in \n Virginia (October 28, 1889); mention of\n Micajah Woods, the \n University of Virginia, and \n Monticello (October 21, 1887); and the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026amp; Potomac Railroad\n Company (March 21, 1873; \u0026amp; May 20, 1881).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eLetters containing genealogical information include the\n following families: the \n Norton family (June 22, 1828); \n Robert Baylor's (August 14, 1828); the\n Frere family (June 28, 1872 \u0026amp; n.d.);\n the \n Roy family (March 21, 1887 \u0026amp; January\n 8, 1885); the \n Braxton family (April 20, 1810); the \n Baylor family (February 20, 1895); and\n the \n Texas \n Baylor family (April 28 \u0026amp; May 2,\n 1894).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFor a list of individual correspondents, please consult\n the \n Baylor family sliplist.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe next series of papers contain the legal and\n financial papers of the \n Baylor family. These include: the\n amnesty papers of Dr. \n John Roy Baylor (1865); land plats and\n surveys (1701-1841) of \n Virginia lands in \n King William County, \n King and Queen County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Caroline County, \n Pocahontas County, and \n Orange County, many of which were done\n by surveyor, \n James Taylor; and other legal\n documents such as indentures, bonds, deeds, land grants,\n and bills of complaint. Items of special note are: copies\n of land grants signed by \n Alexander Spotswood (July 20, 1722) and\n Hugh Drysdale (July 16, 1726); a list\n of named slaves sold to \n John Baylor (December 12, 1751);\n charges against \n Philip Easter, overseer for \n John Baylor, particularly for\n \"constantly driving of the Negroes for which I paid a great\n deal of tobacco,\" especially old \n Sarah, a midwife (ca. 1757); agreement\n of \n John Hatley Norton to buy \n John Baylor's tobacco (December 12,\n 1776); a water lot rental (June 12, 1794); articles of\n agreement concerning a grist mill in \n Caroline County (June 18, 1813); the\n pardon of \n John Crowley signed by \n James Madison and \n James Monroe (September 11, 1815); an\n indenture of 1820 with named slaves; a schedule of property\n with a named slave (December 17, 1822); an agreement\n concerning a mill with \n P. Harrison as the miller (1831); a\n certificate of exemption from active service in the \n Confederate Army as an agriculturalist\n (November 10, 1864); and a copy of a receipt concerning\n work done on a gravel pit for the \n Richmond, Fredericksburg, \u0026amp; Potomac\n Railroad (June 2, 1870).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThis series also contains copies of the wills of \n John Baylor (1705-1772), dated February\n 19, 1770, and \n Frances Baylor (1760-1815), dated June\n 12, 1815, both mentioning family slaves by name.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe financial papers of the \n Baylor family contain six small account\n books, 1859-1870, listing payment to hired hands, one of\n which contains the \n Tiverton Farm Stockbook (1866); bank\n statements; a farm book for the \n Greenwood Farm; \n John Baylor's receipt book, 1792-1795,\n which mentions Negroes purchased (December 5, 1790), \n George Baylor's estate (February 17,\n 1792), and Negroes sold (February 23, 1795); and other\n miscellaneous financial papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eTopics in the financial papers include the following: an\n account with \n Donald Robertson for \n Robert Baylor and \n Walker Baylor's schooling (April 1,\n 1772); Colonel Braxton's smith works (April 1736); the \n Rappahannock River Forge belonging to \n James Hunter (March 31, 1784); tobacco\n accounts (1775-1776; 1782; June \u0026amp; August 1782, October\n 2, 1789; February 24, 1784; March 19 \u0026amp; December 11,\n 1875; and n.d.); horses and racing (January 16, 1741; July\n 11, 1777, May 29, 1767; November 15, 1774; April 1, 1756;\n and list of horses, n.d.); an account for carpenter and\n house work [1726]; an account with the \n Swan Tavern (September 23, 1815); the\n settling of \n John Baylor's estate (1750-1808)\n (January 5, 1812; May 29, 1811; October 27, 1812; September\n 10, 1815; October 2, 1819; June 1, 1821; August 3, 1821;\n and n.d.); medical accounts (April 12, 1830); corn and meal\n from \n John Baylor's mill (January 1, 1830);\n and a blacksmith account (January 1, 1875).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere are also accounts with the \n Confederate government (November 14\n \u0026amp; 24, \u0026amp; December 12, 1863; March 24 \u0026amp; May 3,\n 1864; and February 4, 1865) and many concerning slaves and\n slavery.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThese include: duty paid on Negroes (1742-1744); claim\n for payment for capturing and placing \n John Baylor's runaway slave in the \n Spotsylvania goal (April 16, 1744); the\n sale of \n George Baylor's slaves (November 28,\n 1786); slaves for hire (December 26, 1805; June 15, 1814);\n hire of \" \n Ned \" as a mason (October 2, 1814);\n clothing for Negroes (1814); grog for servants (September\n 23, 1815); bills of sale for unnamed slaves (June 11,\n 1847); \n Mary and daughter \n Elizabeth (September 4, 1848); \n Miles (February 20, 1849); \n Pompey (June 11, 1847); slave boy, \n Frank (January 15, 1851); \n Kitty Brook and \n Fanny (December 28, 1853); \n George Cooper (June 18, 1857); and\n slave hire (April 30, 1859 \u0026amp; ca. 1854).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous series contains a diary (1780) of \n John Baylor 1750-1808) describing a\n journey from \" \n Newmarket \" to \n Warm Springs, \n Augusta County, Virginia, and\n mentioning Dr. \n [Thomas ?] Walker and his son, \n Thomas Walker, of \n Albemarle County, Virginia, and \n John Baylor's \n Orange plantations; genealogical\n material pertaining to the \n Roy family, \n Baylor family, and \n Norton family, and including\n biographical sketches of \n Mungo Roy and \n John Baylor (1750-1808); a \"History of\n the Early Church in Virginia\"; several literary\n compositions by \n Maria Roy Baylor; and a memorandum\n book of \n John Baylor (1750-1808) which describes\n the beginning of his voyage on the Potomack (October 1775)\n and furnishes a description of saltworks at \n Portsmouth, [England] (1778).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther material in this series includes military papers,\n miscellaneous papers, newsclippings, and loose photographs.\n Thirteen of the items in the military papers pertain to\n Colonel \n John Baylor (1705-1772) and the \n Caroline militia, who served under\n Colonel \n George Washington in the construction\n of a fort at \n Winchester, Virginia, during the\n French and Indian War, 1756-1757, and consist of company\n returns, orders for payment, and receipts for payment.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the military papers consist of Revolutionary\n War material, relating to \n George Baylor, aide-de-camp to General\n George Washington, 1775-1777, and\n Commander of the \n Third Regiment of Light Dragoons, and\n the papers about clothing, arms, and other supplies,\n regimental finances, roster of officers, and weekly returns\n of the regiment. Among these papers are: a copy of a letter\n from General Burgoyne to Colonel Phillipson concerning\n military conditions and discussing his ill-fated \n Saratoga campaign (October 20, 1777); a\n mention of \n George Baylor's upcoming marriage\n (February 4, 1778); \n B. Dade's request to be exchanged as a\n prisoner of war (February 1779); monies owed for supplies\n to \n James Hunter with an itemized account\n (October 12 \u0026amp; November 1, 1779); the problems and\n arrangements involved in outfitting the regiment (February\n 4, June 6 \u0026amp; 12, 1778; October 13, 1780; October 26,\n 1781 [2 letters]; November 2, 1781; April 3 \u0026amp; August\n 14, 1782); the difficulty of working with the \"financier \n Robert Morris \" (October 13, 1780); an\n outbreak of smallpox in the \n Third Regiment at \n Petersburg, Virginia (November 25,\n 1781); and an order for a review of the \n Continental army for July 4, 1782. A\n final item is a general order for a discharge from the \n 4th Regiment of \n Virginia militia during the War of 1812\n (April 10, 1814). For a list of individual correspondents,\n please consult the original list in the control folder.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous folder contains the following: a\n printed score sheet for archery (July 4, 1771); a list of\n books, probably from the library of \n John Baylor [ca. 1800 ?]; notes\n concerning Blackstone's law; a pamphlet, \"The Lewis and\n Clark Expedition,\" by \n Grace Flandrau (n.d.); an oath to \"our\n Sovereign Lord King George\" (n.d.); and a parochial report,\n Emmanuel Church, \n Greenwood Parish, Reverend \n W.M. Nelson, Rector (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe newsclippings, 1921-1933, concern \n University of Virginia events, news of\n the \n Ivy area, the \n Lewis Association of America, the \n Lewis family, and historical\n articles.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe loose photographs, mostly unidentified, include:\n Mrs. Rutherford's children, \n Rosa Rutherford, \n Charles Frere and \n Douglas Frere, possible photographs of\n \" \n Newmarket, \" and \n University of Virginia professors.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe notebooks and bound volumes series contains the\n following: a photograph album; school notebooks of \n Maria Roy Baylor, \n Frank Blackford, and \n James B. Baylor; an expense book; two\n scrapbooks of newsclippings; and the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLetters of Junius,\u003c/title\u003ehand\n copied by \n John Baylor (1769-1771).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThose volumes belonging to Dr. \n John Roy Baylor include: a genealogical\n and historical notebook (1872); a medical notebook and farm\n expense book which records a controversy with the \n Clayton family over slaves (1847-1851); a\n farm account book, 1856-1892, with accounts with the \n Fredericksburg Water Power Company, a\n servant's account (June-August, 1865), and reports of wheat\n crops; an account book with grape expenses, sheep\n memorandum, apple accounts, and a mill account (1868-1874);\n and another farm book with an account with the \n Bowling Green Tanning Yard, and slave\n hire records with named slaves (1847-1868).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe photograph album, apparently given to \n John Roy Baylor by his granddaughter on\n Christmas of 1887, contains photographs of the following: \n Rosa Seddon Rutherford (1891 \u0026amp;\n n.d.); \n Helen Rutherford Johnson; \n James B. Baylor; \n Frances Starke Bowen, of \" \n Mirador, \" \n Albemarle County (1886); \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor (1886); the\n mother of \n Fanny Courtenay Baylor; a portrait of\n Colonel \n George Armistead; \n Roy Ellerson Massie; General \n Lewis Armistead (killed at \n Gettysburg ); \n Maria Roy Baylor; \n Eloise Baylor (1885); \n Julia Howard Baylor; and \n John Roy Baylor.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe series containing the papers of \n James B. Baylor and the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey consists of the financial records of the\n survey teams led by \n John Baylor, circular letters from the\n home office in \n Washington, D.C., the official\n correspondence and reports of \n John Baylor, photographs, printed\n material, \n United States government property\n inventories, and bound volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n James Bowen Baylor (1849-1924)\n graduated with an engineering degree from the \n University of Virginia in 1872 and was\n appointed an aid in the \n United States Coast and Geodetic Survey\n Department in 1874, continuing to work as a field\n agent throughout his career. His many assignments included:\n the determination of the elements of earth's magnetism from\n Canada to \n Mexico; the survey of oyster grounds\n in \n Louisiana and \n Virginia, 1889-1894; his appointment\n as a Commissioner of the \n United States Supreme Court to settle\n the \n Virginia - \n Tennessee boundary line dispute,\n establishing it in the middle of Main Street, \n Bristol, 1900-1902; and also the\n establishment of boundaries between \n Virginia and \n Maryland, \n New York and \n Pennsylvania, and the \n United States and \n Canada.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe Oyster Industry Protection Correspondence contains\n much correspondence from \n William Ellinger of \n Fox Island, Virginia, who describes\n himself as an oyster planter. Printed material consists of\n death notices for \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey men, \n Richard D. Cutts and \n Benjamin Peirce (1880\u0026amp; 1883), and\n three pamphlets concerning the \n United States and Canadian boundary,\n the oyster laws of \n Virginia, and a \n Virginia Military Institute valedictory\n address by \n Edward Hutson Russell.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOversize items include a survey of the lands of \n John Roy Baylor (June 1847),\n photographs of the \n United States Coast and Geodetic\n Survey, and a printed plan of the fairgrounds of\n the \n Virginia State Agricultural Society, \n Richmond, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe three \n Baylor family ledgers, 1719-1755, contain\n many references to the purchase of slaves (see\n addendum).\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eADDENDUM RE THE BAYLOR LEDGERS\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe three \n Baylor family ledgers contain many\n references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n Callabar, \" and \" \n Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eReferences to slavery occurring in volume one include\n the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n 39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n 101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026amp; 175. References\n to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n 63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026amp; 207.\n Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n 146, 148, 152-153, \u0026amp; 155.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOccasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n volume and page number, are listed below.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Ann \u0026amp; Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026amp;\n 155\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n \u0026amp; 167; \u0026amp; 2.50\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Betty 1.94\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026amp; 98; \u0026amp;\n 2.96, 111, 136\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026amp;\n 96; \u0026amp; 2.4, 54, \u0026amp; 97\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Hunter 1.68\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026amp; 75;\n \u0026amp; 2.116 \u0026amp; 136\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Little York 2.124\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Lucy 1.94 \u0026amp; 149\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n 145, 158, 180, \u0026amp; 185\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026amp;\n 75\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Parnel Galley 2.22\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026amp;\n 162-164\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\n Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026amp; 2.90\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOther entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n \u0026amp; 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n Germana mines 2.188; \n John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026amp; 131;\n quitrents for land in \n Caroline County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Orange County, and \n King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026amp; 79;\n and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026amp; 149.\n Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n contracts of \n John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n sold off \n W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n 1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n 1744.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/scopecontent\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe three \n Baylor family ledgers contain many\n references concerning tobacco exports, the purchase of\n merchandise, work done on various ships, and slaves, which\n at times had their place of origin noted, as in \" \n Madigaschar woman,\" \"man of \n Callabar, \" and \" \n Barbadoes negro.\" The accounts of the\n first two ledgers are indexed in the front of the\n volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eReferences to slavery occurring in volume one include\n the following pages: 12, 13, 15, 17, 22-24, 26, 28, 35, 37,\n 39, 47, 49, 64-66, 68, 70-71, 77, 80-81, 83, 92-93,\n 101-102, 113-114, 127, 130, 134, 166, \u0026amp; 175. References\n to slavery in volume two include: 10, 16, 30, 34, 56,\n 63-64, 74, 86, 88, 102, 115, 123, 134, 183, \u0026amp; 207.\n Volume three pages include: 40, 71, 124, 130, 132, 135,\n 146, 148, 152-153, \u0026amp; 155.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOccasionally the names of the slave ships and other\n vessels are recorded in the ledgers with notes on the\n contents purchased from them. These, along with their\n volume and page number, are listed below.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Ann \u0026amp; Sarah 1.96, 139, 150, \u0026amp;\n 155\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Berkeley 1.38, 64, 71, 98, 121, 149,\n \u0026amp; 167; \u0026amp; 2.50\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Betty 1.94\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Callabar 1.39, 68, \u0026amp; 98; \u0026amp;\n 2.96, 111, 136\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Greyhound 1.23, 37, 38, 65, 92, \u0026amp;\n 96; \u0026amp; 2.4, 54, \u0026amp; 97\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Hunter 1.68\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Little John 1.9, 10, 12, 25, \u0026amp; 75;\n \u0026amp; 2.116 \u0026amp; 136\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Little York 2.124\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Lucy 1.94 \u0026amp; 149\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Mattapony Pink 1.9, 33, 94, 99, 135,\n 145, 158, 180, \u0026amp; 185\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Nassopenex Sloop 1.2, 5, 38, \u0026amp;\n 75\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Parnel Galley 2.22\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Prince Eugene 1.139, 150, \u0026amp;\n 162-164\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n Twerton 1.15, 39, 103, \u0026amp; 2.90\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther entries include: the Iron Mine Adventurers 1.1\n \u0026amp; 1.11; horses 1.28; the \n Germana mines 2.188; \n John Baylor's estate 2.73 \u0026amp; 131;\n quitrents for land in \n Caroline County, \n Spotsylvania County, \n Orange County, and \n King and Queen County 2.34 \u0026amp; 79;\n and doctor and midwife accounts 3.120-121, 142, \u0026amp; 149.\n Volume three also has many references to the manufacture\n and repair of hardware, utensils, and agricultural\n equipment. In addition, at the end of the last volume,\n there is a list of memoranda concerning agreements and\n contracts of \n John Baylor, a memorandum of slaves\n sold off \n W. Lyde's plantation (November 30,\n 1742) and a list of all the Negroes belonging to Baylor in\n 1744.\u003c/p\u003e\n "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00032_c04_c12"}},{"id":"viu_viu00036_c05_c02","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"Account Books of Henry Minor\n Magruder, 1865/1915","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00036_c05_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viu_viu00036_c05_c02","ref_ssm":["viu_viu00036_c05_c02"],"id":"viu_viu00036_c05_c02","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00036","_root_":"viu_viu00036","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00036_c05","parent_ssi":"viu_viu00036_c05","parent_ssim":["Papers of the Magruder Family","V. 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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://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00036_c05_c02"}},{"id":"viu_viu00017_c02_c01","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"Accounts., 1751/1899","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00017_c02_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viu_viu00017_c02_c01","ref_ssm":["viu_viu00017_c02_c01"],"id":"viu_viu00017_c02_c01","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00017","_root_":"viu_viu00017","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00017_c02","parent_ssi":"viu_viu00017_c02","parent_ssim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive","Business Papers"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viu_viu00017","viu_viu00017_c02"],"title_filing_ssi":"Accounts.","title_ssm":["Accounts."],"title_tesim":["Accounts."],"normalized_title_ssm":["Accounts., 1751/1899"],"text":["Accounts., 1751/1899","Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive","Business Papers","Box Box 2"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive","Business Papers"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive","Business Papers"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1751/1899"],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1751-1899, n.d."],"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":15,"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"extent_ssm":["(4 folders)."],"extent_tesim":["(4 folders)."],"containers_ssim":["Box Box 2"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"date_range_isim":[1751,1752,1753,1754,1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899],"_nest_path_":"/components#1/components#0","timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:31:42.753Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_viu00017","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00017","_root_":"viu_viu00017","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00017","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu00017.xml","title_ssm":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"title_tesim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"text":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive","Collection number 116","2100 items","Collection is open to research.","Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n for the Humanities","This collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n Davis Family, \n Saunders Family, and \n Watts Family. Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Wattspertaining to \n Virginiacounties including \n Amelia County, \n Amherst County, \n Buckingham County, \n Campbell County, \n Cumberland County, \n Prince Edward County. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family, \n Saunders Family, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Raylandto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhillneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hillsmakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?]complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapelin \n Boonsboro, Bedford Countyto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?], by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Greenattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedfordso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grovewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders IIIdid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saundersfrom \n M. Natalie Manson, at \n Wintore, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italyto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italyfor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donatoand \n Brunelleschiand the \n Medici Chapel, and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\"who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak. \" \n Fleming Saunders IIIat \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordwrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saundersundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saundersand \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr., \n Bleak Hill, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond, \n Hudson Lodge, makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singerstraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne; and to visiting \n Australia. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrichasks \n Fleming Saunders' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabneyhas a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunderswrites from \n Bleak Hillon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrichwrites from \n Emanuel Rectory, \n Chatham, Virginia, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder, a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saundersfrom \n Drake's Branchon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders], \n Bleak Hill, writes \n Fleming Saunders, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders IIIwrites to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummerwrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunderswrites to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders, while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates. \n William W. Oldwrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunderswrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders]at \n Hollins, Virginia, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesarand that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil.","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunderswrites to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academyon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assemblyin \n Williamsburg. \n Samuel Dilworthwrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanfordmentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr.writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roachinforms Watts that while \n Peter Kernis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Grahamof \n Bedford, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horaceand sending the boy a copy of \n Cicerowhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rosewrites from \n Petersburg, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Companyhas been\n doing business in \n Great Britainand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n Franceand \n Britainat this time: \n George Hancockwrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylorwrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannersonwrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburgmentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginiaand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n Franceinto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmondon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Wattswith \n John Watts, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia(now \n Kentucky), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories. John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentuckyare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co.at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia, lists \n John Gilliamas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith. The account of \n Thomas Eastwith \n Archelaus Austinfrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Wattslists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Daviswith \n Daniel Warwick, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Rowland P. Bankslists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Thomas Pleasants, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Daviswhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Wattsspan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamsonwith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tuckerand \n Betty Kirkland, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittanfor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodsonwith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirklandwhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nancementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilsonordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonaldwith \n William Watts, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quillefor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spencewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Flemingand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martinand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davishas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst Countyfor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davishas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davisfrom \n J. Wrightfor \n Lavinia Wright. There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davisto the Sheriff of \n Amherstfor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Wattsin his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham Countycourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County, \n Thomas Taylorand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia Countyand \n Lunenburg Countyfrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts, which includes a record of \n William Watts' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County, \n Amelia, \n Cumberland County, and \n Prince Edward Countyas well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County, \n Cumberland County, and \n Buckingham County.","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambroand \n Ayres Hodnettof \n Buckinghamin regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham Westand \n John Blankenshipof \n Prince Edward. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallenof \n Amelia Countyand \n James and Robert Donalds and Company,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wrightof \n Botetourtand \n Alexander Paineof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke Riverand \n Tinker Creek.","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Pattersonof \n Albemarle County, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland Countybe known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\"Margery Hinshawcontested the will of \n Samuel Hinshawdated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibsonon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottomof \n Ameliadated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubankmentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob, £200 for a man named \n Joe, £10 for a woman named \n Hannah, £20 for a girl named \n Lolly, and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinkeron December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tuckeran ailing Negro named \n Neduntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker. In an undated document, \n George Vaughnyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frankand \n Phoebe--to son-in-law \n John Norris--formerly given to grandson \n John Norrisby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell Countypapers, Justice \n Adam Clementsays that \n Charles Gilbertof \n Campbellon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack--property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward, \n Edward Wattssold to \n William Wattseight Negro slaves: \n True, \n James, \n Winnie, \n Peter, \n Sarah, \n Betty, \n Rachel, and \n Docon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John Kingwith the sheriff of \n Lunenburgwhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Eppsfor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lotteryfor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furnitureshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saundersasking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic,a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Instituteto the \n Saundersasking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederateenlisted men in \n Virginia, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\",\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tuckerof \n Virginia. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute(formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College) for \n Fleming Saunders, III. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins Collegefor \n Elsie Saunders. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders. There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's Schoolof \n Catonsville, Maryland. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saundersto \n Mary Gwathmeyon July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming--and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney.","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders familyand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Millsdating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeleyof \n Yellow Branch, Virginia. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n Englandwho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River TownshipRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saundersis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","University of Virginia. Library. 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Special\n Collections Dept.","Kingdom of God","Pleasant Milkhill","Bethel","Bleak Hills","Trinity and Ivy Chapel","The Grove","Wintore","Medici Chapel","\"Brothers of Pity\"","Randolph-Macon Academy","Bleak Hill","Hudson Lodge","Jubilee Singers","Parliament","Virgina Midland [Rail] Road","Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company","Emanuel Rectory","Grange","Democratic Party","Virginia House of Delegates","General Assembly","Blanford","Buchanan's Hartie and Company","Norfolk, Virginia","Northwest Territories","George Kippen \u0026 Co.","James and Robert Donalds and Company","\"Locust Thicket.\"","Omaha, Nebraska Lottery","Cox and Sons Church Furniture","George Munro, Publishers","Virginia Polytechnic Institute","Confederate","13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers","Edgeworth School","Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College","Hollins College","St. Timothy's School","Maple Creek Mills","Lee Monumental Association","Otter River Township","Internal Revenue\n Service","New York Public\n Library","University of Virginia\n Volunteers","Davis Family","Saunders Family","Watts Family","Saunders","Saunders family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection (# \n 116) was loaned to the Library\n by \n William H. 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Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Prufer\u003c/persname\u003e. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003epertaining to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003ecounties including \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisa County\u003c/geogname\u003e, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eKingdom of God\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Rayland\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c/geogname\u003e, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n \u003ccorpname\u003ePleasant Milkhill\u003c/corpname\u003eneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid\u003c/persname\u003e(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBethel\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hills\u003c/corpname\u003emakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e's estate \"Roanoke\"?].\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam Tyree\u003c/persname\u003e, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Sam L. Preston?]\u003c/persname\u003ecomplaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eTrinity and Ivy Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBoonsboro, Bedford County\u003c/geogname\u003eto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \u003cpersname\u003e\"Carter\" [Saunders?]\u003c/persname\u003e, by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam K. Jenny\u003c/persname\u003e, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Green\u003c/persname\u003eattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva (Smith) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eThe Grove\u003c/corpname\u003ewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003edid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. Natalie Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWintore\u003c/corpname\u003e, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorence, Italy\u003c/geogname\u003eto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003efor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n \u003cpersname\u003eDonato\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBrunelleschi\u003c/persname\u003eand the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMedici Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Brothers of Pity\"\u003c/corpname\u003ewho wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMay Begg\u003c/persname\u003e, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePike's Peak\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003ewrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary (Gwathmey) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJeanie Edmond\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHudson Lodge\u003c/corpname\u003e, makes a reference to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJubilee Singers\u003c/corpname\u003etraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eParliament\u003c/corpname\u003e, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMelbourne\u003c/geogname\u003e; and to visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003easks \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eC[harles] Dabney\u003c/persname\u003ehas a fine little\n daughter.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003eon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirgina Midland [Rail] Road\u003c/corpname\u003e, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFranklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEmanuel Rectory\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChatham, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003e' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEllen Boulder\u003c/persname\u003e, a school teacher, writes\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cgeogname\u003eDrake's Branch\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Peter Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, writes \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGrange\u003c/corpname\u003e?].\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his parents\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Plummer\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic Party\u003c/corpname\u003e, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, while serving in\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia House of Delegates\u003c/corpname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam W. Old\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n \u003cpersname\u003eE. W. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice [Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHollins, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n \u003cpersname\u003eCaesar\u003c/persname\u003eand that he had been in the second\n book of \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n \u003cpersname\u003eD. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his mother from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003eon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeneral Assembly\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Dilworth\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBlanford\u003c/corpname\u003ementioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Baldwin, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Roach\u003c/persname\u003einforms Watts that while \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Kern\u003c/persname\u003eis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Campbell\u003c/persname\u003e, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Graham\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003e, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n \u003cpersname\u003eHorace\u003c/persname\u003eand sending the boy a copy of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCicero\u003c/persname\u003ewhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n \u003cpersname\u003eDuncan Rose\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n \u003ccorpname\u003eBuchanan's Hartie and Company\u003c/corpname\u003ehas been\n doing business in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/geogname\u003eand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBritain\u003c/geogname\u003eat this time: \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Hancock\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[James] Madison\u003c/persname\u003e's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n \u003cpersname\u003eCreed Taylor\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Vannerson\u003c/persname\u003ewrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning a British war sloop\n in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorfolk, Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003einto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn Watts' correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas F. Scott\u003c/persname\u003e, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLincoln County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(now \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorthwest Territories\u003c/corpname\u003e. John says that\n while the lands in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003eare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Papers\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Kippen \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/corpname\u003eat their store in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, lists \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gilliam\u003c/persname\u003eas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eA. Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Petillo\u003c/persname\u003e, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Skipwith\u003c/persname\u003e. The account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas East\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eArchelaus Austin\u003c/persname\u003efrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003elists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel Davis\u003c/persname\u003e, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Warwick\u003c/persname\u003e, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003e' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eRowland P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003elists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Pleasants\u003c/persname\u003e, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLynchburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliams Watts\u003c/persname\u003espan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williamson\u003c/persname\u003ewith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003e, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brittan\u003c/persname\u003efor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eMiller Woodson\u003c/persname\u003ewith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n \u003cpersname\u003ePatrick Henry\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williams\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003ewhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick Nance\u003c/persname\u003ementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward McDonald\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Smith\u003c/persname\u003e, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n \u003cpersname\u003eGraham\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Quille\u003c/persname\u003efor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. Walter Spence\u003c/persname\u003ewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Fleming\u003c/persname\u003eand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003eand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Wright\u003c/persname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eLavinia Wright\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a 1840 note from\n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Davis\u003c/persname\u003eto the Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eLegal Papers\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ein his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003ecourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eAgge\u003c/persname\u003e. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Taylor\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, which includes a record of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003eas well as for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Tambro\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAyres Hodnett\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham\u003c/geogname\u003ein regard to the former's son, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tambro\u003c/persname\u003e, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Ford\u003c/persname\u003e. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham West\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blankenship\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Lewallen\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJames and Robert Donalds and Company\u003c/corpname\u003e,\n Merchants of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGlasgow\u003c/geogname\u003e. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Wright\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Paine\u003c/persname\u003eof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRoanoke River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eTinker Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe will, December 25, 1745, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Patterson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland County\u003c/geogname\u003ebe known as \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Locust Thicket.\"\u003c/corpname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMargery Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003econtested the will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003edated March 1758 with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Cedw] Gibson\u003c/persname\u003eon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Bottom\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003edated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Eubank\u003c/persname\u003ementions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, £200 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoe\u003c/persname\u003e, £10 for a woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eHannah\u003c/persname\u003e, £20 for a girl named \n \u003cpersname\u003eLolly\u003c/persname\u003e, and £0 for a girl named\n \u003cpersname\u003eCaroline\u003c/persname\u003e. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tinker\u003c/persname\u003eon December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker\u003c/persname\u003ean ailing Negro named \n \u003cpersname\u003eNed\u003c/persname\u003euntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e. In an undated document, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Vaughn\u003c/persname\u003eyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhoebe\u003c/persname\u003e--to son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003e--formerly given to grandson \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003eby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003epapers, Justice \n \u003cpersname\u003eAdam Clement\u003c/persname\u003esays that \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Gilbert\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell\u003c/geogname\u003eon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n \u003cpersname\u003eJack\u003c/persname\u003e--property of Watts of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003esold to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eeight Negro slaves: \n \u003cpersname\u003eTrue\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWinnie\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRachel\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eDoc\u003c/persname\u003eon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. John King\u003c/persname\u003ewith the sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg\u003c/geogname\u003ewhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Epps\u003c/persname\u003efor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOmaha, Nebraska Lottery\u003c/corpname\u003efor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eCox and Sons Church Furniture\u003c/corpname\u003eshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Garfield\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003easking for a subscription\n to the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraphic,\u003c/title\u003ea ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Munro, Publishers\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eChrist\u003c/persname\u003e's birth dating from the medieval\n period.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003eto the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003easking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCivil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate\u003c/corpname\u003eenlisted men in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers\u003c/corpname\u003e.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\"\u003c/title\u003e,\n September 6, 1877, by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEdgeworth School\u003c/corpname\u003e, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e(formerly \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College\u003c/corpname\u003e) for \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, III\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHollins College\u003c/corpname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eElsie Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n \u003cpersname\u003eCarter Temple Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a report\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Timothy's School\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCatonsville, Maryland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Gwathmey\u003c/persname\u003eon July 30.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, Sr\u003c/persname\u003e, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice Fleming\u003c/persname\u003e--and the 1904 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blair Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders family\u003c/famname\u003eand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBound Volumes\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe Day Books include a day book from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMaple Creek Mills\u003c/corpname\u003edating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eLee Monumental Association\u003c/corpname\u003e. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlex Berkeley\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eYellow Branch, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003ewho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOtter River Township\u003c/corpname\u003eRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n \u003cpersname\u003eB. H. Anthony\u003c/persname\u003e, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n Davis Family, \n Saunders Family, and \n Watts Family. Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Wattspertaining to \n Virginiacounties including \n Amelia County, \n Amherst County, \n Buckingham County, \n Campbell County, \n Cumberland County, \n Prince Edward County. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family, \n Saunders Family, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Raylandto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhillneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hillsmakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?]complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapelin \n Boonsboro, Bedford Countyto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?], by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Greenattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedfordso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grovewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders IIIdid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saundersfrom \n M. Natalie Manson, at \n Wintore, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italyto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italyfor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donatoand \n Brunelleschiand the \n Medici Chapel, and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\"who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak. \" \n Fleming Saunders IIIat \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordwrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saundersundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saundersand \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr., \n Bleak Hill, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond, \n Hudson Lodge, makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singerstraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne; and to visiting \n Australia. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrichasks \n Fleming Saunders' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabneyhas a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunderswrites from \n Bleak Hillon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrichwrites from \n Emanuel Rectory, \n Chatham, Virginia, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder, a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saundersfrom \n Drake's Branchon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders], \n Bleak Hill, writes \n Fleming Saunders, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders IIIwrites to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummerwrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunderswrites to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders, while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates. \n William W. Oldwrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunderswrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders]at \n Hollins, Virginia, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesarand that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil.","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunderswrites to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academyon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assemblyin \n Williamsburg. \n Samuel Dilworthwrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanfordmentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr.writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roachinforms Watts that while \n Peter Kernis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Grahamof \n Bedford, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horaceand sending the boy a copy of \n Cicerowhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rosewrites from \n Petersburg, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Companyhas been\n doing business in \n Great Britainand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n Franceand \n Britainat this time: \n George Hancockwrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylorwrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannersonwrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburgmentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginiaand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n Franceinto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmondon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Wattswith \n John Watts, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia(now \n Kentucky), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories. John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentuckyare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co.at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia, lists \n John Gilliamas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith. The account of \n Thomas Eastwith \n Archelaus Austinfrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Wattslists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Daviswith \n Daniel Warwick, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Rowland P. Bankslists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Thomas Pleasants, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Daviswhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Wattsspan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamsonwith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tuckerand \n Betty Kirkland, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittanfor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodsonwith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirklandwhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nancementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilsonordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonaldwith \n William Watts, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quillefor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spencewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Flemingand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martinand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davishas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst Countyfor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davishas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davisfrom \n J. Wrightfor \n Lavinia Wright. There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davisto the Sheriff of \n Amherstfor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Wattsin his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham Countycourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County, \n Thomas Taylorand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia Countyand \n Lunenburg Countyfrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts, which includes a record of \n William Watts' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County, \n Amelia, \n Cumberland County, and \n Prince Edward Countyas well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County, \n Cumberland County, and \n Buckingham County.","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambroand \n Ayres Hodnettof \n Buckinghamin regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham Westand \n John Blankenshipof \n Prince Edward. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallenof \n Amelia Countyand \n James and Robert Donalds and Company,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wrightof \n Botetourtand \n Alexander Paineof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke Riverand \n Tinker Creek.","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Pattersonof \n Albemarle County, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland Countybe known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\"Margery Hinshawcontested the will of \n Samuel Hinshawdated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibsonon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottomof \n Ameliadated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubankmentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob, £200 for a man named \n Joe, £10 for a woman named \n Hannah, £20 for a girl named \n Lolly, and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinkeron December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tuckeran ailing Negro named \n Neduntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker. In an undated document, \n George Vaughnyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frankand \n Phoebe--to son-in-law \n John Norris--formerly given to grandson \n John Norrisby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell Countypapers, Justice \n Adam Clementsays that \n Charles Gilbertof \n Campbellon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack--property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward, \n Edward Wattssold to \n William Wattseight Negro slaves: \n True, \n James, \n Winnie, \n Peter, \n Sarah, \n Betty, \n Rachel, and \n Docon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John Kingwith the sheriff of \n Lunenburgwhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Eppsfor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lotteryfor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furnitureshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saundersasking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic,a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Instituteto the \n Saundersasking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederateenlisted men in \n Virginia, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\",\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tuckerof \n Virginia. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute(formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College) for \n Fleming Saunders, III. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins Collegefor \n Elsie Saunders. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders. There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's Schoolof \n Catonsville, Maryland. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saundersto \n Mary Gwathmeyon July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming--and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney.","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders familyand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Millsdating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeleyof \n Yellow Branch, Virginia. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n Englandwho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River TownshipRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saundersis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts."],"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."],"corpname_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Wattspertaining to \n Virginiacounties including \n Amelia County, \n Amherst County, \n Buckingham County, \n Campbell County, \n Cumberland County, \n Prince Edward County. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family, \n Saunders Family, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Raylandto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhillneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hillsmakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?]complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapelin \n Boonsboro, Bedford Countyto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?], by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Greenattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedfordso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grovewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders IIIdid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saundersfrom \n M. Natalie Manson, at \n Wintore, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italyto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italyfor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donatoand \n Brunelleschiand the \n Medici Chapel, and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\"who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak. \" \n Fleming Saunders IIIat \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordwrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saundersundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saundersand \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr., \n Bleak Hill, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond, \n Hudson Lodge, makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singerstraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne; and to visiting \n Australia. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrichasks \n Fleming Saunders' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabneyhas a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunderswrites from \n Bleak Hillon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrichwrites from \n Emanuel Rectory, \n Chatham, Virginia, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder, a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saundersfrom \n Drake's Branchon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders], \n Bleak Hill, writes \n Fleming Saunders, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders IIIwrites to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummerwrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunderswrites to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders, while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates. \n William W. Oldwrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunderswrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders]at \n Hollins, Virginia, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesarand that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil.","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunderswrites to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academyon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assemblyin \n Williamsburg. \n Samuel Dilworthwrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanfordmentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr.writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roachinforms Watts that while \n Peter Kernis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Grahamof \n Bedford, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horaceand sending the boy a copy of \n Cicerowhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rosewrites from \n Petersburg, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Companyhas been\n doing business in \n Great Britainand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n Franceand \n Britainat this time: \n George Hancockwrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylorwrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannersonwrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburgmentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginiaand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n Franceinto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmondon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Wattswith \n John Watts, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia(now \n Kentucky), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories. John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentuckyare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co.at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia, lists \n John Gilliamas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith. The account of \n Thomas Eastwith \n Archelaus Austinfrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Wattslists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Daviswith \n Daniel Warwick, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Rowland P. Bankslists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Thomas Pleasants, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Daviswhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Wattsspan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamsonwith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tuckerand \n Betty Kirkland, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittanfor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodsonwith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirklandwhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nancementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilsonordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonaldwith \n William Watts, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quillefor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spencewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Flemingand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martinand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davishas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst Countyfor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davishas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davisfrom \n J. Wrightfor \n Lavinia Wright. There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davisto the Sheriff of \n Amherstfor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Wattsin his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham Countycourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County, \n Thomas Taylorand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia Countyand \n Lunenburg Countyfrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts, which includes a record of \n William Watts' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County, \n Amelia, \n Cumberland County, and \n Prince Edward Countyas well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County, \n Cumberland County, and \n Buckingham County.","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambroand \n Ayres Hodnettof \n Buckinghamin regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham Westand \n John Blankenshipof \n Prince Edward. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallenof \n Amelia Countyand \n James and Robert Donalds and Company,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wrightof \n Botetourtand \n Alexander Paineof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke Riverand \n Tinker Creek.","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Pattersonof \n Albemarle County, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland Countybe known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\"Margery Hinshawcontested the will of \n Samuel Hinshawdated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibsonon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottomof \n Ameliadated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubankmentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob, £200 for a man named \n Joe, £10 for a woman named \n Hannah, £20 for a girl named \n Lolly, and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinkeron December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tuckeran ailing Negro named \n Neduntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker. In an undated document, \n George Vaughnyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frankand \n Phoebe--to son-in-law \n John Norris--formerly given to grandson \n John Norrisby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell Countypapers, Justice \n Adam Clementsays that \n Charles Gilbertof \n Campbellon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack--property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward, \n Edward Wattssold to \n William Wattseight Negro slaves: \n True, \n James, \n Winnie, \n Peter, \n Sarah, \n Betty, \n Rachel, and \n Docon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John Kingwith the sheriff of \n Lunenburgwhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Eppsfor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lotteryfor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furnitureshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saundersasking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic,a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Instituteto the \n Saundersasking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederateenlisted men in \n Virginia, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\",\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tuckerof \n Virginia. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute(formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College) for \n Fleming Saunders, III. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins Collegefor \n Elsie Saunders. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders. There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's Schoolof \n Catonsville, Maryland. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saundersto \n Mary Gwathmeyon July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming--and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney.","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders familyand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Millsdating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeleyof \n Yellow Branch, Virginia. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n Englandwho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River TownshipRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saundersis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","University of Virginia. Library. 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Special\n Collections Dept.","Kingdom of God","Pleasant Milkhill","Bethel","Bleak Hills","Trinity and Ivy Chapel","The Grove","Wintore","Medici Chapel","\"Brothers of Pity\"","Randolph-Macon Academy","Bleak Hill","Hudson Lodge","Jubilee Singers","Parliament","Virgina Midland [Rail] Road","Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company","Emanuel Rectory","Grange","Democratic Party","Virginia House of Delegates","General Assembly","Blanford","Buchanan's Hartie and Company","Norfolk, Virginia","Northwest Territories","George Kippen \u0026 Co.","James and Robert Donalds and Company","\"Locust Thicket.\"","Omaha, Nebraska Lottery","Cox and Sons Church Furniture","George Munro, Publishers","Virginia Polytechnic Institute","Confederate","13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers","Edgeworth School","Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College","Hollins College","St. Timothy's School","Maple Creek Mills","Lee Monumental Association","Otter River Township","Internal Revenue\n Service","New York Public\n Library","University of Virginia\n Volunteers","Davis Family","Saunders Family","Watts Family","Saunders","Saunders family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection (# \n 116) was loaned to the Library\n by \n William H. 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Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Prufer\u003c/persname\u003e. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003epertaining to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003ecounties including \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisa County\u003c/geogname\u003e, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eKingdom of God\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Rayland\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c/geogname\u003e, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n \u003ccorpname\u003ePleasant Milkhill\u003c/corpname\u003eneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid\u003c/persname\u003e(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBethel\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hills\u003c/corpname\u003emakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e's estate \"Roanoke\"?].\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam Tyree\u003c/persname\u003e, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Sam L. Preston?]\u003c/persname\u003ecomplaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eTrinity and Ivy Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBoonsboro, Bedford County\u003c/geogname\u003eto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \u003cpersname\u003e\"Carter\" [Saunders?]\u003c/persname\u003e, by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam K. Jenny\u003c/persname\u003e, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Green\u003c/persname\u003eattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva (Smith) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eThe Grove\u003c/corpname\u003ewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003edid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. Natalie Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWintore\u003c/corpname\u003e, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorence, Italy\u003c/geogname\u003eto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003efor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n \u003cpersname\u003eDonato\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBrunelleschi\u003c/persname\u003eand the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMedici Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Brothers of Pity\"\u003c/corpname\u003ewho wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMay Begg\u003c/persname\u003e, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePike's Peak\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003ewrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary (Gwathmey) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJeanie Edmond\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHudson Lodge\u003c/corpname\u003e, makes a reference to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJubilee Singers\u003c/corpname\u003etraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eParliament\u003c/corpname\u003e, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMelbourne\u003c/geogname\u003e; and to visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003easks \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eC[harles] Dabney\u003c/persname\u003ehas a fine little\n daughter.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003eon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirgina Midland [Rail] Road\u003c/corpname\u003e, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFranklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEmanuel Rectory\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChatham, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003e' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEllen Boulder\u003c/persname\u003e, a school teacher, writes\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cgeogname\u003eDrake's Branch\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Peter Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, writes \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGrange\u003c/corpname\u003e?].\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his parents\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Plummer\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic Party\u003c/corpname\u003e, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, while serving in\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia House of Delegates\u003c/corpname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam W. Old\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n \u003cpersname\u003eE. W. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice [Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHollins, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n \u003cpersname\u003eCaesar\u003c/persname\u003eand that he had been in the second\n book of \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n \u003cpersname\u003eD. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his mother from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003eon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeneral Assembly\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Dilworth\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBlanford\u003c/corpname\u003ementioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Baldwin, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Roach\u003c/persname\u003einforms Watts that while \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Kern\u003c/persname\u003eis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Campbell\u003c/persname\u003e, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Graham\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003e, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n \u003cpersname\u003eHorace\u003c/persname\u003eand sending the boy a copy of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCicero\u003c/persname\u003ewhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n \u003cpersname\u003eDuncan Rose\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n \u003ccorpname\u003eBuchanan's Hartie and Company\u003c/corpname\u003ehas been\n doing business in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/geogname\u003eand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBritain\u003c/geogname\u003eat this time: \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Hancock\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[James] Madison\u003c/persname\u003e's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n \u003cpersname\u003eCreed Taylor\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Vannerson\u003c/persname\u003ewrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning a British war sloop\n in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorfolk, Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003einto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn Watts' correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas F. Scott\u003c/persname\u003e, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLincoln County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(now \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorthwest Territories\u003c/corpname\u003e. John says that\n while the lands in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003eare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Papers\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Kippen \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/corpname\u003eat their store in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, lists \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gilliam\u003c/persname\u003eas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eA. Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Petillo\u003c/persname\u003e, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Skipwith\u003c/persname\u003e. The account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas East\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eArchelaus Austin\u003c/persname\u003efrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003elists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel Davis\u003c/persname\u003e, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Warwick\u003c/persname\u003e, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003e' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eRowland P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003elists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Pleasants\u003c/persname\u003e, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLynchburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliams Watts\u003c/persname\u003espan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williamson\u003c/persname\u003ewith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003e, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brittan\u003c/persname\u003efor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eMiller Woodson\u003c/persname\u003ewith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n \u003cpersname\u003ePatrick Henry\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williams\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003ewhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick Nance\u003c/persname\u003ementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward McDonald\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Smith\u003c/persname\u003e, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n \u003cpersname\u003eGraham\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Quille\u003c/persname\u003efor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. Walter Spence\u003c/persname\u003ewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Fleming\u003c/persname\u003eand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003eand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Wright\u003c/persname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eLavinia Wright\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a 1840 note from\n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Davis\u003c/persname\u003eto the Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eLegal Papers\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ein his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003ecourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eAgge\u003c/persname\u003e. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Taylor\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, which includes a record of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003eas well as for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Tambro\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAyres Hodnett\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham\u003c/geogname\u003ein regard to the former's son, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tambro\u003c/persname\u003e, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Ford\u003c/persname\u003e. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham West\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blankenship\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Lewallen\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJames and Robert Donalds and Company\u003c/corpname\u003e,\n Merchants of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGlasgow\u003c/geogname\u003e. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Wright\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Paine\u003c/persname\u003eof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRoanoke River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eTinker Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe will, December 25, 1745, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Patterson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland County\u003c/geogname\u003ebe known as \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Locust Thicket.\"\u003c/corpname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMargery Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003econtested the will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003edated March 1758 with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Cedw] Gibson\u003c/persname\u003eon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Bottom\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003edated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Eubank\u003c/persname\u003ementions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, £200 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoe\u003c/persname\u003e, £10 for a woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eHannah\u003c/persname\u003e, £20 for a girl named \n \u003cpersname\u003eLolly\u003c/persname\u003e, and £0 for a girl named\n \u003cpersname\u003eCaroline\u003c/persname\u003e. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tinker\u003c/persname\u003eon December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker\u003c/persname\u003ean ailing Negro named \n \u003cpersname\u003eNed\u003c/persname\u003euntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e. In an undated document, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Vaughn\u003c/persname\u003eyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhoebe\u003c/persname\u003e--to son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003e--formerly given to grandson \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003eby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003epapers, Justice \n \u003cpersname\u003eAdam Clement\u003c/persname\u003esays that \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Gilbert\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell\u003c/geogname\u003eon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n \u003cpersname\u003eJack\u003c/persname\u003e--property of Watts of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003esold to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eeight Negro slaves: \n \u003cpersname\u003eTrue\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWinnie\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRachel\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eDoc\u003c/persname\u003eon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. John King\u003c/persname\u003ewith the sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg\u003c/geogname\u003ewhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Epps\u003c/persname\u003efor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOmaha, Nebraska Lottery\u003c/corpname\u003efor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eCox and Sons Church Furniture\u003c/corpname\u003eshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Garfield\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003easking for a subscription\n to the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraphic,\u003c/title\u003ea ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Munro, Publishers\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eChrist\u003c/persname\u003e's birth dating from the medieval\n period.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003eto the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003easking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCivil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate\u003c/corpname\u003eenlisted men in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers\u003c/corpname\u003e.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\"\u003c/title\u003e,\n September 6, 1877, by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEdgeworth School\u003c/corpname\u003e, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e(formerly \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College\u003c/corpname\u003e) for \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, III\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHollins College\u003c/corpname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eElsie Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n \u003cpersname\u003eCarter Temple Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a report\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Timothy's School\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCatonsville, Maryland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThere are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Gwathmey\u003c/persname\u003eon July 30.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, Sr\u003c/persname\u003e, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice Fleming\u003c/persname\u003e--and the 1904 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blair Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders family\u003c/famname\u003eand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eBound Volumes\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe Day Books include a day book from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMaple Creek Mills\u003c/corpname\u003edating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eLee Monumental Association\u003c/corpname\u003e. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlex Berkeley\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eYellow Branch, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003ewho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOtter River Township\u003c/corpname\u003eRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n \u003cpersname\u003eB. H. Anthony\u003c/persname\u003e, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n Davis Family, \n Saunders Family, and \n Watts Family. Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Wattsand \n Fleming Saunders, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Wattspertaining to \n Virginiacounties including \n Amelia County, \n Amherst County, \n Buckingham County, \n Campbell County, \n Cumberland County, \n Prince Edward County. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family, \n Saunders Family, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Raylandto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhillneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hillsmakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?]complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapelin \n Boonsboro, Bedford Countyto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?], by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Greenattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedfordso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grovewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders IIIdid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saundersfrom \n M. Natalie Manson, at \n Wintore, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italyto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italyfor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donatoand \n Brunelleschiand the \n Medici Chapel, and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\"who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak. \" \n Fleming Saunders IIIat \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordwrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saundersundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saundersand \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr., \n Bleak Hill, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond, \n Hudson Lodge, makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singerstraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne; and to visiting \n Australia. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrichasks \n Fleming Saunders' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabneyhas a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunderswrites from \n Bleak Hillon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrichwrites from \n Emanuel Rectory, \n Chatham, Virginia, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder, a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saundersfrom \n Drake's Branchon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders], \n Bleak Hill, writes \n Fleming Saunders, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders IIIwrites to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academyin \n Bedfordon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummerwrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunderswrites to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders, while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates. \n William W. Oldwrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunderswrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders]at \n Hollins, Virginia, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesarand that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil.","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunderswrites to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academyon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assemblyin \n Williamsburg. \n Samuel Dilworthwrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanfordmentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr.writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roachinforms Watts that while \n Peter Kernis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Grahamof \n Bedford, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horaceand sending the boy a copy of \n Cicerowhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rosewrites from \n Petersburg, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Companyhas been\n doing business in \n Great Britainand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n Franceand \n Britainat this time: \n George Hancockwrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylorwrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannersonwrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburgmentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginiaand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n Franceinto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmondon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Wattswith \n John Watts, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia(now \n Kentucky), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories. John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentuckyare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co.at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia, lists \n John Gilliamas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith. The account of \n Thomas Eastwith \n Archelaus Austinfrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Wattslists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Daviswith \n Daniel Warwick, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Rowland P. Bankslists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Daviswith \n Thomas Pleasants, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Daviswhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Wattsspan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamsonwith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tuckerand \n Betty Kirkland, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittanfor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodsonwith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirklandwhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nancementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilsonordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonaldwith \n William Watts, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quillefor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spencewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Flemingand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martinand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davishas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst Countyfor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davishas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davisfrom \n J. Wrightfor \n Lavinia Wright. There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davisto the Sheriff of \n Amherstfor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Wattsin his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham Countycourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County, \n Thomas Taylorand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia Countyand \n Lunenburg Countyfrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts, which includes a record of \n William Watts' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County, \n Amelia, \n Cumberland County, and \n Prince Edward Countyas well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County, \n Cumberland County, and \n Buckingham County.","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambroand \n Ayres Hodnettof \n Buckinghamin regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham Westand \n John Blankenshipof \n Prince Edward. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallenof \n Amelia Countyand \n James and Robert Donalds and Company,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wrightof \n Botetourtand \n Alexander Paineof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke Riverand \n Tinker Creek.","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Pattersonof \n Albemarle County, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland Countybe known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\"Margery Hinshawcontested the will of \n Samuel Hinshawdated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibsonon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottomof \n Ameliadated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubankmentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob, £200 for a man named \n Joe, £10 for a woman named \n Hannah, £20 for a girl named \n Lolly, and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinkeron December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tuckeran ailing Negro named \n Neduntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker. In an undated document, \n George Vaughnyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frankand \n Phoebe--to son-in-law \n John Norris--formerly given to grandson \n John Norrisby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell Countypapers, Justice \n Adam Clementsays that \n Charles Gilbertof \n Campbellon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack--property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward, \n Edward Wattssold to \n William Wattseight Negro slaves: \n True, \n James, \n Winnie, \n Peter, \n Sarah, \n Betty, \n Rachel, and \n Docon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John Kingwith the sheriff of \n Lunenburgwhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Eppsfor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lotteryfor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furnitureshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saundersasking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic,a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Instituteto the \n Saundersasking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederateenlisted men in \n Virginia, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\",\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tuckerof \n Virginia. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute(formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College) for \n Fleming Saunders, III. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins Collegefor \n Elsie Saunders. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders. There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's Schoolof \n Catonsville, Maryland. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saundersto \n Mary Gwathmeyon July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming--and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney.","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders familyand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Millsdating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeleyof \n Yellow Branch, Virginia. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n Englandwho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River TownshipRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. 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Most of the\n correspondence is single-foldered, with the correspondents identified in the folder listing and in the Cocke sliplist\n located in Special Collections.\n\n The collection includes: Correspondence and other material in order by date(s): Boxes 1-178; Undated\n Correspondence: Boxes 179-181; 3) Undated Miscellaneous Papers re agriculture, architecture, inventions, public\n improvements, medicine and illness, military papers, slavery and abolition, temperance, and the University of\n Virginia: Boxes 182-187; 4) Bound Volumes: Boxes 188-191; 5) Diaries of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke: Boxes 192-194\n (on microfilm M-1676-1678); 6) Oversize Material: 3 boxes.\n\n Excluded from this series are the following Cocke collections, which remain on deposit: PHILIP ST. GEORGE\n COCKE PAPERS: #2433-a (reaccessioned as part of #2433-m), #2433-f, #2433-g, #2433-h, #2433-k (withdrawn; no copies\n retained), #2433-m (withdrawn; copies retained), #2433-p (withdrawn; copies retained). JOHN HARTWELL COCKE PAPERS:\n #5685, #5685-a.","The various Cocke collections that are owned by the University (gifts and purchases) have been interfiled\n chronologically in one series and designated as #640, etc. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, speeches, and\n other types of material are grouped together with material of the same date range in the same boxes. Most of the\n correspondence is single-foldered, with the correspondents identified in the folder listing and in the Cocke sliplist\n located in Special Collections.","The collection includes: Correspondence and other material in order by date(s): Boxes 1-178; Undated\n Correspondence: Boxes 179-181; 3) Undated Miscellaneous Papers re agriculture, architecture, inventions, public\n improvements, medicine and illness, military papers, slavery and abolition, temperance, and the University of\n Virginia: Boxes 182-187; 4) Bound Volumes: Boxes 188-191; 5) Diaries of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke: Boxes 192-194\n (on microfilm M-1676-1678); 6) Oversize Material: 3 boxes.","Excluded from this series are the following Cocke collections, which remain on deposit: PHILIP ST. GEORGE\n COCKE PAPERS: #2433-a (reaccessioned as part of #2433-m), #2433-f, #2433-g, #2433-h, #2433-k (withdrawn; no copies\n retained), #2433-m (withdrawn; copies retained), #2433-p (withdrawn; copies retained). JOHN HARTWELL COCKE PAPERS:\n #5685, #5685-a.","John Hartwell Cocke was born in 1780 in the Tidewater county of Surry, the son of John Hartwell and Elizabeth\n (Kennon) Cocke. By the age of twenty-one, Cocke was the master of over 5,500 acres of land in Surry and Fluvanna counties. A\n few years after Cocke married Anne Blaws Barraud (\"Nancy\") of Norfolk, Virginia in 1802, he sold his Surry County holdings\n and moved to a frame dwelling at Bremo Recess, Fluvanna County, and began work on a finer home, \"Bremo.\" He owned\n three large plantations along the James River, Bremo Recess, Upper Bremo, and Lower Bremo, each containing over a thousand\n acres of land. During the War of 1812, Cocke served in the Virginia militia, rising from captain to brigadier general in\n eighteen months. His first wife, Anne Blaws Barraud Cocke (1785-1816) did not live to see the completion of \"Bremo\" in\n 1820, but Cocke and his second wife, Louisa Maxwell Holmes (m. 1821), lived there until their deaths.","Other milestones in the life of John Hartwell Cocke include his elections as Vice-President of the Virginia Temperance\n Society in 1830 and as President in 1834; his election as President of the United States Temperance Union in 1836; his\n membership on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors from its inception as Central College in 1819 until 1852;\n membership on the Virginia Board of Public Works, 1823-1829; his primary role in the founding of the Agricultural Society\n of Albemarle in 1817; and service on the James River and Kanawha Canal Company Board of Directors. John Hartwell Cocke\n was greatly troubled by the issue of slavery, and he concentrated his time and money in promoting the American\n Colonization Society, and preparing his slaves for gradual emancipation through vocational training and teaching them to\n read and write.","The papers of the Cocke family of Fluvanna County, Virginia, and related Barraud family, Faulcon family, and\n other families, consist of ca. 25,000 items, (194 Hollinger boxes, ca. 64.5 linear shelf feet), 1725- 1939, and contains\n correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries of John Hartwell Cocke, Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, and Lucy Cocke,\n minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University ofVirginia, diagrams and sketches concerning the University,\n bound volumes, sketches and drawings, college and school notes, poetry, orations and speeches, essays, genealogy, and\n lists pertaining to agriculture, music and other subjects.","Major topics covered by the collection include: the development of agriculture in Virginia, merino sheep, horse\n breeding and purchases, slavery, the American Colonization Society, temperance movement, other religious and reform\n groups, book dealers, religion, the War of 1812, the Civil War, public education (including the Bremo Seminary), the\n founding and development of the University of Virginia and public improvements. The bulk of the papers were generated by\n General John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866) and his immediate descendants.","Contains \"List of Negroes Born\" 1791-1806, which includes an entry for the birth of Robert Kennon.","\"For Keeping Beck \u0026 children\" [Robert Kennon]","Mentions British landing, War of 1812.","Concerning Robert Kennon's inheritance.","Surveys the family structures, occupations, places of residence, and religious beliefs of Cocke's over 200 slaves. Only the 108 \"working slaves\" were questioned regarding whether they professed Christianity. Cocke began manumitting deserving Christian slaves in 1832, an additional incentive for belief among his bondsmen and a possible motivation for the survey.","Entry for 1853 January 26 includes Cocke's comments on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings","Entry for 1859 April 27 includes Cocke's comments on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.","Removed and cataloged as UF860.M5 1831","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Cocke Family Papers, \n 1725-1939"],"collection_ssim":["Cocke Family Papers, \n 1725-1939"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["640, etc."],"unitid_tesim":["640, etc."],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection of Cocke family papers grouped under the number #640, etc. is comprised of several different\n collections of papers that were formerly on loan to the University of Virginia Library, including: #640, #1335,\n #1431, #1480, #2890, #3604, # 5213, #5680, #6418, and #2433 (except -a, -f, -g, -h, -k, -m, and -p). On April 5 and\n November 10, 1979, accessions #640, #1335, #1480, #2433, #2890, #5680, and #6418 were purchased by the University of\n Virginia Library from John Page Elliott of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Joseph F. Johnston, Trustee of The Bremo\n Trust, of Birmingham, Alabama. Accession #1431 was purchased by the University of Virginia Library from Mrs.\n Raymond Orf, \"Bremo Recess,\" Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County, Virginia, on July 25, 1972. Accession #3604 was given to\n the Library on November 14, 1950, by Mr. William Cabell Moore, Washington, D.C. and #5213 was given to the Library\n on April 4, 1956, by Richard C. Marshall, Washington, D.C."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n consists of ca. 25,000 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe various Cocke collections that are owned by the University (gifts and purchases) have been interfiled\n chronologically in one series and designated as #640, etc. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, speeches, and\n other types of material are grouped together with material of the same date range in the same boxes. Most of the\n correspondence is single-foldered, with the correspondents identified in the folder listing and in the Cocke sliplist\n located in Special Collections.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe collection includes: Correspondence and other material in order by date(s): Boxes 1-178; Undated\n Correspondence: Boxes 179-181; 3) Undated Miscellaneous Papers re agriculture, architecture, inventions, public\n improvements, medicine and illness, military papers, slavery and abolition, temperance, and the University of\n Virginia: Boxes 182-187; 4) Bound Volumes: Boxes 188-191; 5) Diaries of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke: Boxes 192-194\n (on microfilm M-1676-1678); 6) Oversize Material: 3 boxes.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eExcluded from this series are the following Cocke collections, which remain on deposit: PHILIP ST. GEORGE\n COCKE PAPERS: #2433-a (reaccessioned as part of #2433-m), #2433-f, #2433-g, #2433-h, #2433-k (withdrawn; no copies\n retained), #2433-m (withdrawn; copies retained), #2433-p (withdrawn; copies retained). JOHN HARTWELL COCKE PAPERS:\n #5685, #5685-a.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe various Cocke collections that are owned by the University (gifts and purchases) have been interfiled\n chronologically in one series and designated as #640, etc. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, speeches, and\n other types of material are grouped together with material of the same date range in the same boxes. Most of the\n correspondence is single-foldered, with the correspondents identified in the folder listing and in the Cocke sliplist\n located in Special Collections.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes: Correspondence and other material in order by date(s): Boxes 1-178; Undated\n Correspondence: Boxes 179-181; 3) Undated Miscellaneous Papers re agriculture, architecture, inventions, public\n improvements, medicine and illness, military papers, slavery and abolition, temperance, and the University of\n Virginia: Boxes 182-187; 4) Bound Volumes: Boxes 188-191; 5) Diaries of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke: Boxes 192-194\n (on microfilm M-1676-1678); 6) Oversize Material: 3 boxes.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eExcluded from this series are the following Cocke collections, which remain on deposit: PHILIP ST. GEORGE\n COCKE PAPERS: #2433-a (reaccessioned as part of #2433-m), #2433-f, #2433-g, #2433-h, #2433-k (withdrawn; no copies\n retained), #2433-m (withdrawn; copies retained), #2433-p (withdrawn; copies retained). JOHN HARTWELL COCKE PAPERS:\n #5685, #5685-a.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The various Cocke collections that are owned by the University (gifts and purchases) have been interfiled\n chronologically in one series and designated as #640, etc. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, speeches, and\n other types of material are grouped together with material of the same date range in the same boxes. Most of the\n correspondence is single-foldered, with the correspondents identified in the folder listing and in the Cocke sliplist\n located in Special Collections.\n\n The collection includes: Correspondence and other material in order by date(s): Boxes 1-178; Undated\n Correspondence: Boxes 179-181; 3) Undated Miscellaneous Papers re agriculture, architecture, inventions, public\n improvements, medicine and illness, military papers, slavery and abolition, temperance, and the University of\n Virginia: Boxes 182-187; 4) Bound Volumes: Boxes 188-191; 5) Diaries of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke: Boxes 192-194\n (on microfilm M-1676-1678); 6) Oversize Material: 3 boxes.\n\n Excluded from this series are the following Cocke collections, which remain on deposit: PHILIP ST. GEORGE\n COCKE PAPERS: #2433-a (reaccessioned as part of #2433-m), #2433-f, #2433-g, #2433-h, #2433-k (withdrawn; no copies\n retained), #2433-m (withdrawn; copies retained), #2433-p (withdrawn; copies retained). JOHN HARTWELL COCKE PAPERS:\n #5685, #5685-a.","The various Cocke collections that are owned by the University (gifts and purchases) have been interfiled\n chronologically in one series and designated as #640, etc. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, speeches, and\n other types of material are grouped together with material of the same date range in the same boxes. Most of the\n correspondence is single-foldered, with the correspondents identified in the folder listing and in the Cocke sliplist\n located in Special Collections.","The collection includes: Correspondence and other material in order by date(s): Boxes 1-178; Undated\n Correspondence: Boxes 179-181; 3) Undated Miscellaneous Papers re agriculture, architecture, inventions, public\n improvements, medicine and illness, military papers, slavery and abolition, temperance, and the University of\n Virginia: Boxes 182-187; 4) Bound Volumes: Boxes 188-191; 5) Diaries of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke: Boxes 192-194\n (on microfilm M-1676-1678); 6) Oversize Material: 3 boxes.","Excluded from this series are the following Cocke collections, which remain on deposit: PHILIP ST. GEORGE\n COCKE PAPERS: #2433-a (reaccessioned as part of #2433-m), #2433-f, #2433-g, #2433-h, #2433-k (withdrawn; no copies\n retained), #2433-m (withdrawn; copies retained), #2433-p (withdrawn; copies retained). JOHN HARTWELL COCKE PAPERS:\n #5685, #5685-a."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Hartwell Cocke was born in 1780 in the Tidewater county of Surry, the son of John Hartwell and Elizabeth\n (Kennon) Cocke. By the age of twenty-one, Cocke was the master of over 5,500 acres of land in Surry and Fluvanna counties. A\n few years after Cocke married Anne Blaws Barraud (\"Nancy\") of Norfolk, Virginia in 1802, he sold his Surry County holdings\n and moved to a frame dwelling at Bremo Recess, Fluvanna County, and began work on a finer home, \"Bremo.\" He owned\n three large plantations along the James River, Bremo Recess, Upper Bremo, and Lower Bremo, each containing over a thousand\n acres of land. During the War of 1812, Cocke served in the Virginia militia, rising from captain to brigadier general in\n eighteen months. His first wife, Anne Blaws Barraud Cocke (1785-1816) did not live to see the completion of \"Bremo\" in\n 1820, but Cocke and his second wife, Louisa Maxwell Holmes (m. 1821), lived there until their deaths.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther milestones in the life of John Hartwell Cocke include his elections as Vice-President of the Virginia Temperance\n Society in 1830 and as President in 1834; his election as President of the United States Temperance Union in 1836; his\n membership on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors from its inception as Central College in 1819 until 1852;\n membership on the Virginia Board of Public Works, 1823-1829; his primary role in the founding of the Agricultural Society\n of Albemarle in 1817; and service on the James River and Kanawha Canal Company Board of Directors. John Hartwell Cocke\n was greatly troubled by the issue of slavery, and he concentrated his time and money in promoting the American\n Colonization Society, and preparing his slaves for gradual emancipation through vocational training and teaching them to\n read and write.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Hartwell Cocke was born in 1780 in the Tidewater county of Surry, the son of John Hartwell and Elizabeth\n (Kennon) Cocke. By the age of twenty-one, Cocke was the master of over 5,500 acres of land in Surry and Fluvanna counties. A\n few years after Cocke married Anne Blaws Barraud (\"Nancy\") of Norfolk, Virginia in 1802, he sold his Surry County holdings\n and moved to a frame dwelling at Bremo Recess, Fluvanna County, and began work on a finer home, \"Bremo.\" He owned\n three large plantations along the James River, Bremo Recess, Upper Bremo, and Lower Bremo, each containing over a thousand\n acres of land. During the War of 1812, Cocke served in the Virginia militia, rising from captain to brigadier general in\n eighteen months. His first wife, Anne Blaws Barraud Cocke (1785-1816) did not live to see the completion of \"Bremo\" in\n 1820, but Cocke and his second wife, Louisa Maxwell Holmes (m. 1821), lived there until their deaths.","Other milestones in the life of John Hartwell Cocke include his elections as Vice-President of the Virginia Temperance\n Society in 1830 and as President in 1834; his election as President of the United States Temperance Union in 1836; his\n membership on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors from its inception as Central College in 1819 until 1852;\n membership on the Virginia Board of Public Works, 1823-1829; his primary role in the founding of the Agricultural Society\n of Albemarle in 1817; and service on the James River and Kanawha Canal Company Board of Directors. John Hartwell Cocke\n was greatly troubled by the issue of slavery, and he concentrated his time and money in promoting the American\n Colonization Society, and preparing his slaves for gradual emancipation through vocational training and teaching them to\n read and write."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCocke Family Papers, Accession #640, etc., Special\n Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Cocke Family Papers, Accession #640, etc., Special\n Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of the Cocke family of Fluvanna County, Virginia, and related Barraud family, Faulcon family, and\n other families, consist of ca. 25,000 items, (194 Hollinger boxes, ca. 64.5 linear shelf feet), 1725- 1939, and contains\n correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries of John Hartwell Cocke, Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, and Lucy Cocke,\n minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University ofVirginia, diagrams and sketches concerning the University,\n bound volumes, sketches and drawings, college and school notes, poetry, orations and speeches, essays, genealogy, and\n lists pertaining to agriculture, music and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMajor topics covered by the collection include: the development of agriculture in Virginia, merino sheep, horse\n breeding and purchases, slavery, the American Colonization Society, temperance movement, other religious and reform\n groups, book dealers, religion, the War of 1812, the Civil War, public education (including the Bremo Seminary), the\n founding and development of the University of Virginia and public improvements. The bulk of the papers were generated by\n General John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866) and his immediate descendants.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eContains \"List of Negroes Born\" 1791-1806, which includes an entry for the birth of Robert Kennon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"For Keeping Beck \u0026amp; children\" [Robert Kennon]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions British landing, War of 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Robert Kennon's inheritance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurveys the family structures, occupations, places of residence, and religious beliefs of Cocke's over 200 slaves. Only the 108 \"working slaves\" were questioned regarding whether they professed Christianity. Cocke began manumitting deserving Christian slaves in 1832, an additional incentive for belief among his bondsmen and a possible motivation for the survey.\n\t\t\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEntry for 1853 January 26 includes Cocke's comments on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eEntry for 1859 April 27 includes Cocke's comments on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eRemoved and cataloged as UF860.M5 1831\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers of the Cocke family of Fluvanna County, Virginia, and related Barraud family, Faulcon family, and\n other families, consist of ca. 25,000 items, (194 Hollinger boxes, ca. 64.5 linear shelf feet), 1725- 1939, and contains\n correspondence, legal and financial papers, diaries of John Hartwell Cocke, Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, and Lucy Cocke,\n minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University ofVirginia, diagrams and sketches concerning the University,\n bound volumes, sketches and drawings, college and school notes, poetry, orations and speeches, essays, genealogy, and\n lists pertaining to agriculture, music and other subjects.","Major topics covered by the collection include: the development of agriculture in Virginia, merino sheep, horse\n breeding and purchases, slavery, the American Colonization Society, temperance movement, other religious and reform\n groups, book dealers, religion, the War of 1812, the Civil War, public education (including the Bremo Seminary), the\n founding and development of the University of Virginia and public improvements. The bulk of the papers were generated by\n General John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866) and his immediate descendants.","Contains \"List of Negroes Born\" 1791-1806, which includes an entry for the birth of Robert Kennon.","\"For Keeping Beck \u0026 children\" [Robert Kennon]","Mentions British landing, War of 1812.","Concerning Robert Kennon's inheritance.","Surveys the family structures, occupations, places of residence, and religious beliefs of Cocke's over 200 slaves. Only the 108 \"working slaves\" were questioned regarding whether they professed Christianity. Cocke began manumitting deserving Christian slaves in 1832, an additional incentive for belief among his bondsmen and a possible motivation for the survey.","Entry for 1853 January 26 includes Cocke's comments on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings","Entry for 1859 April 27 includes Cocke's comments on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.","Removed and cataloged as UF860.M5 1831"],"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":18422,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:31:58.732Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00103_c01_c17447"}},{"id":"viu_viu00220_c04_c97","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"\"ADVENTURE INCOMPARABLE D'UN CERTAIN HANS\n PFAALL,\" by Poe, 1874","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00220_c04_c97#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eOne installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's ascent.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00220_c04_c97#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viu_viu00220_c04_c97","ref_ssm":["viu_viu00220_c04_c97"],"id":"viu_viu00220_c04_c97","ead_ssi":"viu_viu00220","_root_":"viu_viu00220","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu00220_c04","parent_ssi":"viu_viu00220_c04","parent_ssim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n ca. 1829-ca.\n 1915.","Part Four: Printed Matter from Magazines,\n Newspapers, and Books"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viu_viu00220","viu_viu00220_c04"],"title_filing_ssi":"\"ADVENTURE INCOMPARABLE D'UN CERTAIN HANS\n PFAALL,\" by Poe","title_ssm":["\"ADVENTURE INCOMPARABLE D'UN CERTAIN HANS\n PFAALL,\" by Poe"],"title_tesim":["\"ADVENTURE INCOMPARABLE D'UN CERTAIN HANS\n PFAALL,\" by Poe"],"normalized_title_ssm":["\"ADVENTURE INCOMPARABLE D'UN CERTAIN HANS\n PFAALL,\" by Poe, 1874"],"text":["\"ADVENTURE INCOMPARABLE D'UN CERTAIN HANS\n PFAALL,\" by Poe, 1874","John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n ca. 1829-ca.\n 1915.","Part Four: Printed Matter from Magazines,\n Newspapers, and Books","Pp. 248-252 of Muse Universel,\n IV","Box 11","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n ascent."],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n ca. 1829-ca.\n 1915.","Part Four: Printed Matter from Magazines,\n Newspapers, and Books"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n ca. 1829-ca.\n 1915.","Part Four: Printed Matter from Magazines,\n Newspapers, and Books"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1874"],"unitdate_other_ssim":["1874 July 18."],"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":589,"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n ca. 1829-ca.\n 1915."],"physdesc_tesim":["Pp. 248-252 of Muse Universel,\n IV"],"containers_ssim":["Box 11"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"date_range_isim":[1874],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\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 "],"scopecontent_tesim":["One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n ascent."],"_nest_path_":"/components#3/components#96","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. 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